Review Quiz on Abraham Maslow's Holistic Dynamic Theory

If Maslow is one of the fathers of the third force in psychology, then the first two forces are -

• Jung and Freud

• Freud and Adler

• Psychoanalysis and Freud

• Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism

Maslow adopted the ___________ approach to motivation.

• dualistic

• homeostatic

• philosophical

• holistic

• deterministic

Which of the following is NOT an assumption underlying Maslow's theory of motivation?

• People are continually motivated by one need or another.

• Unconscious forces lie behind much surface motivation.

• People in different cultures have different basic needs.

• Human needs can be arranged on a hierarchy.

• The whole person is motivated as a unit.

Which of the following is true about the nature of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

• Higher level needs have prepotency over lower level needs.

• Lower level needs have prepotency over higher level needs.

• Esteem needs must be satisfied before love and belongingness needs become motivators.

• Aesthetic needs must be satisfied before cognitive needs become motivators.

Each ascending step in Maslow's hierarchy of needs represents -

• a lower need, but one less basic to survival.

• a higher need, but one more basic to survival.

• a lower need, but one more basic to survival.

• a higher need, but one less basic to survival.

According to Maslow, a woman whose physiological needs are inadequately satisfied will be motivated to -

• satisfy physiological needs.

• satisfy safety needs.

• find companionship.

• satisfy esteem needs.

• become self-actualizing.

According to Maslow, an individual's inability to satisfy safety needs results in :

• metamotivation

• peak experiences

• autonomy

• basic anxiety

Maslow claimed that when people who have satisfied their esteem needs are criticized or deprecated by others -

• they revert to the level of love and belongingness needs.

• their safety needs become prepotent.

• their neurotic needs are activated.

• they cannot satisfy needs for self-actualization.

• they retain their sense of self-worth.

According to Maslow, a person surrounded by beauty and order would ordinarily satisfy -

• cognitive needs

• aesthetic needs

• conative needs

• esteem needs

According to Maslow, ______ behavior is usually unlearned, spontaneous, and determined by forces within the person rather than by the environment.

• expressive

• neurotic

• coping

• actualizing