Exam 15: Growth Motivation and Positive Psychology

Seeking out challenges, exerting effort, being fully engaged and experiencing flow in what one is doing, acting on one's true values, and feeling fully alive and authentic describes:

The "hot seat technique" is a therapeutic strategy to help people learn how to be more:

What are conditions of worth? What role do they play in growth motivation?

With which of the following statements would Maslow most likely disagree?

Maslow estimated that ___% of the population reaches self-actualization.

According to the broaden-and-build theory of positivity, people flourish when they experience what ratio of positive emotions to negative emotions in their daily life?

Carl Rogers did not like the term teacher because he felt that the only learning that mattered was student-initiated learning.Instead of teacher, he preferred the term:

Which of the following is not one of the themes proposed by Maslow's need hierarchy?

______is a way of receiving information and feelings such that neither is repressed, ignored, filtered, or distorted by wishes, fears, or past experiences.

Compassion can be learned, as through engaging in exercises such as:

Humanistic psychology is mostly about:

Explain why validation-seeking individuals are more likely than growth-seeking individuals to suffer high anxiety during social interaction.

What is mindfulness, and what benefits does it bring to the individual?

Illustrate conditional regard as a socialization strategy (e.g., as in parenting) and explain its effects on the socialized (e.g., the child).

Greater mindfulness tends to:

To socialize children and adolescents, adults sometimes attempt to create in children and adolescents "internal compulsions" to do what the adult wants them to do and believe. This socialization strategy is called:

How do people create meaning in their lives?

______is considered by humanistic psychologists as the "forward thrust of life".

Generally speaking, explain the motivational forces that explain why a person becomes a terrorist (e.g., suicide bomber).

Select any one positive subjective experience investigated by positive psychology (e.g., optimism, meaning). Explain how that personal strength: (1) fosters personal growth and well-being. (2) prevents human sickness (e.g., depression) from taking root in the person's personality.