Personality Psych Quiz 5
According to Sidney Jourard, people are most well-adjusted when they:
Can make themselves "transparent" and reveal their most intimate thoughts to another person.
According to Rogers, what is the most common defense process?
Distortion
Maslow found that self-actualized people tend to:
Enjoy time by themselves.
A boy hits his younger sister. What might a Rogerian therapist recommend the parents say to the child?
I love you, but I do not like it when you hit your sister.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the humanistic approach to personality?
It is grounded solidly in empirical research findings.
Csikszentmihályi has identified each of the following as a component of optimal experience EXCEPT one. Which one?
People around us recognize and respect our accomplishments.
"Eupsychian management" refers to:
Rearranging an organization to help employees satisfy higher-level needs.
Rhoda Dendron has kept a secret about a traumatic childhood incident to herself for many years. Finally, she decides to write about it in a diary. She spends an hour each night for several days writing about the experience and her feelings surrounding it. Based on research findings, what are the likely effects of Rhoda's writing?
Rhoda's health should improve.
Which of the following is true about peak experiences, as described by Maslow?
Self-actualized people have more intense and more frequent peak experiences than others.
Researchers generally conceive of self-esteem as how you feel about yourself. In contrast, self-concept is:
The kind of person you believe yourself to be.
Which of the following is characteristic of people who frequently experience loneliness?
They appear to show little interest in getting to know other people.
According to the humanistic approach, people will be happy when:
They move toward becoming fully functioning.
