Maslow, Cattell, and the Robust Five

Maslow's Hierarchy Matching

• Physiological

• caring relationships

• Safety

• self-confidence and respect from others

• Love

• water, food & sleep

• Esteem

• shelter and security of resources

• Self-Actualization

• the best version of you

Put Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the proper order for the lowest to highest.

• esteem

• physiology

• love

• safety

• self-actualization

Select 3 traits that would describe a self-actualized person.

• being OK with not being perfect

• being comfortable doing something different from most of your friends

• not liking surprises and not randomly doing things

• always learning and accepting change is part of life

• seeing faults in others but not in yourself

What kinds of people did Maslow study?

• Successful and productive people

• disturbed individuals with mental health problems

• children and adolescents

• teachers and doctors

​ (a)   classified 46 words as (b)   , which are ​personality characteristics ​ (c)   seen by other people. He also identified 16 ​ (d)   , which are stable characteristics at the ​ (e)   of a personality.

• surface traits
• Cattell
• Maslow
• source traits
• core
• needs
• easily
• outside

A ​ (a)   is a tendency to react to a situation in a way that doesn't​ (b)   over time. Traits are ​ (c)   and can be applied to all people, and they can be ​ (d)   or measured on a scale.

• trait
• change
• universal
• quantified
• unique
• described
• characteristic

Match the following descriptions with one of Cattell's 16 Core traits.

• Self-Reliance

• reserved vs. outgoing

• Abstractness

• practical vs. imaginative

• Warmth

• group dependent vs. self-sufficient

• Vigilance

• trusting vs. suspicious

• Liveliness

• serious vs. enthusiastic

Match the following description with each of the Robust Five personality traits.

• Conscientiousness

• dependability or inconsistent

• Emotional Stability

• outgoing or reserved

• Extraversion

• in control or emotional outbursts

• Agreeableness

• adventurous or stagnant

• Openness to Experience

• easy-going or argumentative

The Robust ​ (a)   traits have ​ (b)   appeared in numerous studies and should be viewed as a ​ (c)   , with the ​ (d)   of a trait on either end.

• continuum
• extremes
• repeatedly
• Five
• 16
• timeline
• rarely

The opposite of emotional stability is _____ , or a tendency to experience unpleasant emotions frequently.

• neuroticism

• psychoticism

• egocentricism

• self-actualization