Theories Of Personality Maslow
This flashcard set explores Abraham Maslow’s theory of personality, focusing on his Hierarchy of Needs, where lower-level needs take priority over higher ones, and the conative needs that drive motivation toward self-actualization.
Maslow held that lower needs have prepotency over higher level needs
Hierarchy of needs
Key Terms
Maslow held that lower needs have prepotency over higher level needs
Hierarchy of needs
Conative needs
physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, self-actualization
Assumes that the whole person is constantly being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health
holistic-dynamic theory
Need that if not satisfied result in basic anxiety
safety needs
Realization of one’s potential and desire to become creative in the full sense of the world
Self-fulfillment
Motivated by the need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences
Aesthetic needs
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Maslow held that lower needs have prepotency over higher level needs | Hierarchy of needs |
Conative needs | physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, self-actualization |
Assumes that the whole person is constantly being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health | holistic-dynamic theory |
Need that if not satisfied result in basic anxiety | safety needs |
Realization of one’s potential and desire to become creative in the full sense of the world | Self-fulfillment |
Motivated by the need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences | Aesthetic needs |
Deprivation of aesthetic and cognitive needs result to | pathology |
The desire to know, understand and be curious; when blocked all needs are threatened | Cognitive needs |
A desire to dominate, inflict pain or to subject oneself to the will of another person; serve as a compensation for unsatisfied basic needs | neurotic needs |
Often an end itself and serves no other purpose than to be expressed | Expressive behavior |
Ordinarily conscious, effortful, learned and determined by external environment | coping behavior |
An absence of values, lack of fulfillment, loss of meaning in life; result of deprivation of needs | metapathology |
Needs that are innately determined even though they can be modified by learning | instinctoid needs |
Also called “metaneeds” | B-values |
Experiences that are mystical in nature and somehow a feeling of transcendence | Peak experiences |
Love for being or essence of another person | Being-love |
Opposite of B-love | D-love (defeciency love) |
Type of science that lacks emotion, joy, wander, awe, rapture | desacralization |
Abolish prediction and control as the major goals and replace with sheer fascination and desire to release people from controls so that they can grow and become less predictable | taoistic attitude for psychology |
Measure values and behaviors of self-actualizing ppl | POI (Personal Orientation Inventory) |
Fear of being one’s best | Jonah complex |
Goal of maslow’s therapy | embrace b-values and satisfy love and belongingness needs |
Healthy interpersonal relationship with client and theprapist is the best psychological medicine | goal of maslow’s therapy |
Combines emphasis on hope, optimism and well-being with scientific research and ; reliving positive or peak experiences | Positive psychology |