Exam 15: Growth Motivation and Positive Psychology

According to humanistic psychology, the everyday choice of following one's inner nature or following cultural priorities is not a neutral one.People generally follow social preferences and priorities because:

What is the difference between a deficiency need and a growth need? Give one example of each type of need.

In the humanistic tradition, the two fundamental directions for healthy development are:

To the extent that people rely on external guides (e.g., social cues, incentives) to initiate and regulate their behavior in a habitual or personality-like way, they have a(n):

Identify (name) and then debate the validity of any two criticisms of the humanistic approach to motivation study.

Provide the rationale humanists rely on to answer this question in the affirmative: Do we as a society dare trust a person to be self-determining?

Which of the following positive psychology exercises has empirical research shown to be the most effective in increasing happiness and in decreasing depression?

The consensus in humanistic thinking about the problem of evil is that evil:

The following statement describes _____: The individual perceives himself as having characteristics a, b, and c and feelings u, v, and w, but that same person publicly expresses characteristics d, e, and f and feelings x, y, and z.

In the Cultivating Compassion intervention, researchers developed the CCT (Compassion Cultivating Training) program to help members of a community cultivate a greater capacity for compassion.Level of worry:

Most people are:

Illustrate any one happiness exercise inherent within positive psychology therapy-name it, describe what one does, and identify its goal or benefit to the person.

Causality orientations reflect ______in the personality.

According to Rogers, what life events cause an individual to become dissociated from his or her actualizing tendency?

______describes the extent to which the individual accepts versus denies and rejects the full range of his or her personal characteristics, abilities, desires, and beliefs.

Internalization of "good and bad" and "right and wrong" learned from our parents:

Which one of the following happiness exercises is not a recommended approach to therapy within positive psychology therapy?

Which theoretical traditions are consistent with a humanistic approach to motivation?

According to Maslow, deficiency needs:

Positive conditional regard is: