PSY-255 Quiz 5

Questions and Answers

1. The humanistic approach to personality is most similar to

A. behaviorism.

B. existential philosophy.

C. the trait approach to personality.

D. the psychoanalytic approach to personality.

2. A woman tells a humanistic psychotherapist that she wants to leave an unhappy relationship, but that she

can’t. The therapist will probably set as a goal that the woman comes to understand that

A. she must live in the “here and now.”

B. there is a good part to everyone, even the man she is having trouble with now.

C. she should take responsibility for her choice to stay in or leave the relationship.

D. when she gets in touch with who she really is and drops her defenses, many of her relationship

problems will also end.

3. A father tells his son that he loves him when the child is good, but says “I do not like you right now” when

the child misbehaves. The father is engaging in

A. denial.

B. conditional positive regard.

C. classical conditioning.

D. an anxiety-reduction technique.

4. According to the humanistic approach, people will be happy when

A. their immediate needs, such as money and shelter, are met.

B. they establish meaningful personal relationships.

C. their lives are free from problems.

D. they move toward becoming fully functioning.

5. Which of the following does Rogers blame for our inability to incorporate new information into our

self-concepts?

A. Disorganization

B. Conditional positive regard

C. Subception

D. Anxiety

6. After a woman has more or less satisfied all of the needs on Maslow’s hierarchy except the last one, what

need will now have a strong influence on her behavior?

A. The need to perceive herself as competent and achieving

B. The need to experience nonpossessive, unselfish love (B-love)

C. The need to develop her full potential, to be her true self

D. The need for self-respect

7. When Csikszentmihalyi asked people to identify a moment when they felt most alive, participants in his

study said that

A. they were engaged in a challenging task.

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