Question 1

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:

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A) following social messages predicts adjustment, while following inner guides predicts maladjustment. 
B) following social messages corresponds with high interpersonal competence, while following inner guides corresponds with low interpersonal competence. 
C) social messages are strong, while inner guides are subtle. 
D) social messages are reliable and valid, while inner guides are unreliable and invalid.

Question 2

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

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Question 3

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

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A) autonomy and heteronomy. 
B) autonomy and openness. 
C) autonomy and socialization. 
D) heteronomy and openness. 
E) heteronomy and socialization.

Question 4

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):

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A) actualizing tendency. 
B) autonomy causality orientation. 
C) control causality orientation. 
D) self-esteem.

Question 5

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

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Question 6

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?

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Question 7

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

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A) Becoming exercise 
B) Gratitude visit 
C) One step forward 
D) Value the self

Question 8

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

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A) can be reversed or healed rather easily, given the existence of warm interpersonal relationships. 
B) does not exist. 
C) is not inherent in human nature. 
D) occurs in both supportive and coercive interpersonal climates.

Question 9

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.

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A) congruence 
B) fully functioning individual 
C) incongruence 
D) self-actualization

Question 10

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:

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A) decreased for both the control and experimental participants. 
B) increased for controls and decreased for experimental participants. 
C) were unchanged for the control participants and higher for the experimental participants. 
D) for the control group were unchanged, while the experimental participants reported significant decreases in worry.

Question 11

Most people are:

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A) emotionally miserable 
B) happy 99% of the time 
C) high in mindfulness 
D) mildly happy most of the time 
E) mildly unhappy most of the time

Question 12

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.

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Question 13

Causality orientations reflect ______in the personality.

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A) desire for control 
B) identity and/or self-concept 
C) internalized social roles 
D) self-determination

Question 14

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

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Question 15

______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.

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A) Congruence and incongruence 
B) Self-actualization and self-deactualization 
C) Self-definition and social definition 
D) Subjective well-being and eudaimonic well-being

Question 16

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

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A) moves the person away from basic needs such as love and belongingness. 
B) moves the person away from the organismic valuation process. 
C) moves the person toward becoming a fully functioning individual. 
D) produces congruence between the actualizing tendency and the self-actualizing tendency.

Question 17

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

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A) Avoid the daily mistake 
B) identification of signature strengths 
C) gratitude visit 
D) three good things in life

Question 18

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

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A) behaviorism 
B) holism, Gestalt psychology, and existentialism 
C) incentives, drives, and arousal 
D) objectivism and logical positivism

Question 19

According to Maslow, deficiency needs:

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A) are relatively weak needs compared to growth needs. 
B) constitute the unconscious sources of motivation. 
C) dominate consciousness until gratification submerges them. 
D) explain little in the study of motivation.

Question 20

Positive conditional regard is:

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A) giving love and affection for obedience and achievement. 
B) love 
C) offering support to another person. 
D) taking away love and affection for disobedience and failure.

Exam 15: Growth Motivation and Positive Psychology