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38 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 38
what is conditional positive regard
all children are born wanting to be loved and accepted by their parents and others
the recurrent preference or readiness for warm, close, and communicative interaction
with others.
Positive regard, when it must be earned by meeting certain conditions
Motives are often based on needs states of tension within a person. As the need is
satisfied, the state of tension is reduced.
Term 2 of 38
How does satisfying a need reduce tension?
The thematic appreciation test [TAT] consists of a set of black and white images that are
ambiguous. The person is then asked to make up a story about what is happening in the
picture.
Murray believe that needs refer to states of tension and satisfying the need reduces the
tension. However, it was the process of reducing tension that the person found
satisfying, not the tensionless state per se.
people high in nPow do not deal well with frustration and conflict. When high nPow
People do not get their way or when their power is challenged or blocked, they are likely
to show strong stress responses (power stress).
- anxiety is the result of having an experience that does not fit with one's self-
conception.
- distortion involves modifying experiences as opposed to self-image to reduce the
threat.
,Term 3 of 38
How do motive psychologists believe that unconscious motivation can be revealed?
Motive psychologists like psychoanalysts believe that fantasies free associations and
responses to projective techniques revealed the unconscious motivation behind many
thoughts' feelings and behaviors.
Motives propel people to perceive think and act in specific ways that satisfy their needs.
Motives can be unconscious in the sense that people do not know explicitly what they
want.
- anxiety is the result of having an experience that does not fit with one's self-
conception.
- distortion involves modifying experiences as opposed to self-image to reduce the
threat.
For happiness it does not appear to matter what level of a need a person is working on.
People working on self-actualization needs are not any more likely to be happier than
people working on other needs.
Term 4 of 38
What is the need for intimacy?
The thematic appreciation test [TAT] consists of a set of black and white images that are
ambiguous. The person is then asked to make up a story about what is happening in the
picture.
the recurrent preference or readiness for warm, close, and communicative interaction
with others.
Motives are often based on needs states of tension within a person. As the need is
satisfied, the state of tension is reduced.
Positive regard, when it must be earned by meeting certain conditions
,Term 5 of 38
What are some characteristics of individuals with high nInt?
- Individuals high in nAch
o Prefer activities that provides some, but not too much challenge.
o they enjoy tasks in which they are personally responsible for the outcome.
o they prefer tasks for which feedback on their performance is available.
- The need for power correlates positively with having arguments with others, being
elected to student office in university, taking larger risks in gambling situations,
behaving assertively and actively in a small group setting, and acquiring more of what
winter calls prestige possessions, such as sports cars, credit cards, and nameplates for
dormitory doors.
- An individual high in the need for power is interested in control of situations and other
people.
- atmosphere of genuine acceptance on the part of the therapist
- the therapist must express unconditional positive regard for the client
- empathetic understanding.
- spend more time during the day thinking about relationships
- report more pleasant emotions when they are around other people
- Smile, laugh, and make more eye contact
- start up conversations more frequently and write more letters
Term 6 of 38
What are the health inplications of high nPow?
people high in nPow do not deal well with frustration and conflict. When high nPow
People do not get their way or when their power is challenged or blocked, they are likely
to show strong stress responses (power stress).
- atmosphere of genuine acceptance on the part of the therapist
- the therapist must express unconditional positive regard for the client
- empathetic understanding.
- spend more time during the day thinking about relationships
- report more pleasant emotions when they are around other people
- Smile, laugh, and make more eye contact
- start up conversations more frequently and write more letters
Primary needs (food, water, air, sex) are satisfied by physical means
Secondary needs (belonging, acceptance) are satisfied by mental or emotional needs
, Term 7 of 38
What is the concept of the fully functioning person according to Rogers?
Like dispositional psychologists, motive psychologist stressed that people differ from
one another in the type and strength of their motives, these differences are measurable,
these differences cause or are associated with important life outcomes, differences
among people in the relative amounts of various motives are stable overtime, and
motive may provide one answer to the question why people do what they do
1. an emphasis on conscious awareness of needs, choices, and personal responsibility.
2. emphasis on the human need for growth and the realization of one's full potential.
3. views much of motivation as being based on a need to grow, to become who one is
meant to be. It is growth-based motivation, a motivation to develop, to flourish, and to
become more and more what one is optimally suited to become.
- The need for power correlates positively with having arguments with others, being
elected to student office in university, taking larger risks in gambling situations,
behaving assertively and actively in a small group setting, and acquiring more of what
winter calls prestige possessions, such as sports cars, credit cards, and nameplates for
dormitory doors.
- An individual high in the need for power is interested in control of situations and other
people.
The concept of the fully functioning person is a person who is on their way to self-
actualization. This person may not actually be self-actualized yet but they are not
blocked or sidetracked in moving towards the school. Such individuals are open to new
experiences, and they enjoy diversity and novelty in their daily lives. Fully functioning
individuals are also centred in the present period they do not dwell on the past or their
regrets. Fully functioning individuals also trust themselves, their feelings, and their own
judgments.
38 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 38
what is conditional positive regard
all children are born wanting to be loved and accepted by their parents and others
the recurrent preference or readiness for warm, close, and communicative interaction
with others.
Positive regard, when it must be earned by meeting certain conditions
Motives are often based on needs states of tension within a person. As the need is
satisfied, the state of tension is reduced.
Term 2 of 38
How does satisfying a need reduce tension?
The thematic appreciation test [TAT] consists of a set of black and white images that are
ambiguous. The person is then asked to make up a story about what is happening in the
picture.
Murray believe that needs refer to states of tension and satisfying the need reduces the
tension. However, it was the process of reducing tension that the person found
satisfying, not the tensionless state per se.
people high in nPow do not deal well with frustration and conflict. When high nPow
People do not get their way or when their power is challenged or blocked, they are likely
to show strong stress responses (power stress).
- anxiety is the result of having an experience that does not fit with one's self-
conception.
- distortion involves modifying experiences as opposed to self-image to reduce the
threat.
,Term 3 of 38
How do motive psychologists believe that unconscious motivation can be revealed?
Motive psychologists like psychoanalysts believe that fantasies free associations and
responses to projective techniques revealed the unconscious motivation behind many
thoughts' feelings and behaviors.
Motives propel people to perceive think and act in specific ways that satisfy their needs.
Motives can be unconscious in the sense that people do not know explicitly what they
want.
- anxiety is the result of having an experience that does not fit with one's self-
conception.
- distortion involves modifying experiences as opposed to self-image to reduce the
threat.
For happiness it does not appear to matter what level of a need a person is working on.
People working on self-actualization needs are not any more likely to be happier than
people working on other needs.
Term 4 of 38
What is the need for intimacy?
The thematic appreciation test [TAT] consists of a set of black and white images that are
ambiguous. The person is then asked to make up a story about what is happening in the
picture.
the recurrent preference or readiness for warm, close, and communicative interaction
with others.
Motives are often based on needs states of tension within a person. As the need is
satisfied, the state of tension is reduced.
Positive regard, when it must be earned by meeting certain conditions
,Term 5 of 38
What are some characteristics of individuals with high nInt?
- Individuals high in nAch
o Prefer activities that provides some, but not too much challenge.
o they enjoy tasks in which they are personally responsible for the outcome.
o they prefer tasks for which feedback on their performance is available.
- The need for power correlates positively with having arguments with others, being
elected to student office in university, taking larger risks in gambling situations,
behaving assertively and actively in a small group setting, and acquiring more of what
winter calls prestige possessions, such as sports cars, credit cards, and nameplates for
dormitory doors.
- An individual high in the need for power is interested in control of situations and other
people.
- atmosphere of genuine acceptance on the part of the therapist
- the therapist must express unconditional positive regard for the client
- empathetic understanding.
- spend more time during the day thinking about relationships
- report more pleasant emotions when they are around other people
- Smile, laugh, and make more eye contact
- start up conversations more frequently and write more letters
Term 6 of 38
What are the health inplications of high nPow?
people high in nPow do not deal well with frustration and conflict. When high nPow
People do not get their way or when their power is challenged or blocked, they are likely
to show strong stress responses (power stress).
- atmosphere of genuine acceptance on the part of the therapist
- the therapist must express unconditional positive regard for the client
- empathetic understanding.
- spend more time during the day thinking about relationships
- report more pleasant emotions when they are around other people
- Smile, laugh, and make more eye contact
- start up conversations more frequently and write more letters
Primary needs (food, water, air, sex) are satisfied by physical means
Secondary needs (belonging, acceptance) are satisfied by mental or emotional needs
, Term 7 of 38
What is the concept of the fully functioning person according to Rogers?
Like dispositional psychologists, motive psychologist stressed that people differ from
one another in the type and strength of their motives, these differences are measurable,
these differences cause or are associated with important life outcomes, differences
among people in the relative amounts of various motives are stable overtime, and
motive may provide one answer to the question why people do what they do
1. an emphasis on conscious awareness of needs, choices, and personal responsibility.
2. emphasis on the human need for growth and the realization of one's full potential.
3. views much of motivation as being based on a need to grow, to become who one is
meant to be. It is growth-based motivation, a motivation to develop, to flourish, and to
become more and more what one is optimally suited to become.
- The need for power correlates positively with having arguments with others, being
elected to student office in university, taking larger risks in gambling situations,
behaving assertively and actively in a small group setting, and acquiring more of what
winter calls prestige possessions, such as sports cars, credit cards, and nameplates for
dormitory doors.
- An individual high in the need for power is interested in control of situations and other
people.
The concept of the fully functioning person is a person who is on their way to self-
actualization. This person may not actually be self-actualized yet but they are not
blocked or sidetracked in moving towards the school. Such individuals are open to new
experiences, and they enjoy diversity and novelty in their daily lives. Fully functioning
individuals are also centred in the present period they do not dwell on the past or their
regrets. Fully functioning individuals also trust themselves, their feelings, and their own
judgments.
