Modules 4.5b Quiz

What psychological concept is depicted in this pie chart?

• Self-transcendence

• Self-actualization

• Self-awareness

• Self-concept

What do we call the process of fulfilling our potential?

• Belongingness

• Unconditional positive regard

• Self-actualization

• Self-concept

Emiko feels grateful that he has food to eat, a home, and good friends, but he cannot stop feeling as if he is doing a bad job at work. With which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is Emiko struggling?

• Physiological

• Safety

• Self-transcendence

• Esteem

Humanistic psychologists may assess personality by

• asking people to complete surveys about their ideal selves versus their actual selves.

• doing case studies on what a person sees in ambiguous inkblots.

• having a person describe their dreams over multiple years.

• conducting experiments on the impact of stressful situations on people’s behavior under pressure.

Which of the following is an example of unconditional positive regard?

• The Prohaskas credit the success of their marriage to accepting the faults of the other without criticism.

• Mr. Lopez, a second-grade teacher, gives smiley-face stickers to students who sit quietly at their desks during math.

• Jacqueline got a promotion and a raise at work after filling in for a manager one day, because she did a better job than the manager typically does.

• Chen’s parents praise him when he does well and ignore him when he engages in minor misbehavior.

Dr. Kumar conducted a study in which he randomly assigned participants either to complete a questionnaire about the dreams they had during the last week or to tell their life stories. Then, he asked them to indicate the extent to which they felt more secure in their sense of self. Dr. Coneja conducted a study in which she asked college students in her classes to write stories about their lives over the semester. At the end of the semester, she asked her students to indicate the extent to which they felt more secure in their sense of self. Which of the following best differentiates the conclusions that Dr. Kumar and Dr. Coneja can draw from their studies?

• Dr. Kumar can claim that the life story approach caused the participants’ self-concepts to solidify, while Dr. Coneja cannot make this claim because she did not use random assignment.

• Dr. Kumar can claim that the life story approach caused the participants’ self-concepts to solidify, while Dr. Coneja cannot make this claim because she did not use random sampling.

• Dr. Kumar can claim that there is a statistically

  significant difference between dream analysis and the life story approach, while Dr. Coneja cannot make this claim because she used a qualitative method.

• Dr. Kumar can claim that there is a statistically

  significant difference between dream analysis and the life story approach, while Dr. Coneja cannot make this claim because she used an experimental design.