Exam 13: Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology

Explain how a business could apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to facilitate employee motivation and success. Provide specific recommendations for each of the needs in Maslow's hierarchy.

Also known as Geworfenheit, ________ refers to the time, place, and circumstances into which you happened to be born.

According to Rogers, believing that others value you based only on intelligence, success, or attractiveness can lead to ________.

Steven has come to terms with his mortality, accepted responsibility for his existence, and knows that he determines what happens in his life. Existentialists would say that Steven is ________.

The humanist psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow took basic existential assumptions and added the assumption that ________.

The idea that you choose your own reality is closest to which concept in the humanistic perspective on personality?

Humanistic psychologists believe that people are basically good.

________ consists of your biological experiences and ________ consists of your psychological experiences.

According to Carl Rogers, a person can only be understood from the perspective of the entire panorama of his or her conscious experience or what he called the ________.

Which of the following virtues does NOT appear to be particularly important in Eastern traditions?

George Kelly believed that personal constructs are bipolar.

Some American corporations use Maslow's ideas when dealing with their employees. For example, they might ________.

Which is NOT one of the central intrinsic goals featured in self-determination theory?

Carl Rogers maintained that the one basic tendency for humans is to ________.

The biological component of experience is called Eigenwelt.

Which two individuals are credited with turning existentialism into a more optimistic view of life?

George Kelly believed that to understand a person, you need to understand his or her personal construct system. This idea is known as ________.

According to existentialist philosophy, the opposite of living in bad faith is ________.

________ psychology is based on the premise that to understand a person, you must understand his or her unique view of reality.

Optimism is one of the attributes studied by positive psychologists.