Abraham Maslow Ch 15

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Transpersonal psychology aka fourth-force psychology: Psychology that examines the human relationship to the cosmos or to something "bigger than we are" and the mystical, spiritual or peak experiences that the realization of such a relationship produces.
Third-Force Psychology: Humanistic psychology which was viewedby Maslow and others as an alternative to psychoanalysis and behaviorism.
Synergy: Working together. Individuals in a community characterized by synergy work in harmony and are not in conflict with their society.
Strong ethical sense: Characterizes the self-actualizing person.
Characteristics of the Self-actualizing person: Spontaneity, Simplicity and Naturalness
Acceptance of democratic values: characteristic of the self-actualizing person,
Acceptance of self, others and nature: characteristic of the self-actualizing person,
Accurate and full perception of reality: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Continued freshness of appreciation: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Creativity: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Nonconformity: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Independence from the environment and culture: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Identification with all of humanity: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Sense of humor that is unhostile: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Aesthetic Needs: Innate need for such qualities as symmetry, closure, and order, observed most clearly in children and in self-actualizing adults.
Deep Friendships with only a few people: characteristic of the self-actualizing person.
Self-Actualization: Highest level in the hierarchy of needs, which can be reached only if the preceding need levels have been adequately satisfied. The self-actualizing individual operates at full capacity and B-motivated rather than D-motivated.
Instinctoid: Term Maslow used to describe the nature of the human needs. An instinctoid need is innate but weak and is easily modified by the environment.
Safety Needs: Second cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs, included is the need for order, security, and predictability.
Reductive-analytic Approach to Science: Strategy of reducing an object of interest to its component parts in order to study and understand it.
Problem-oriented rather than self-oriented: Characterizes the self-actualizing person.
Positive Psychology: Field in contemporary psychology that explores the higher aspects of humans but does so in a way that is more scientifically rigorous and less self-centered than was humanistic psychology.
Physiological Needs: Most basic cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included are the needs for water, food, oxygen, sleep, elimination and sex.
Ashrams: Retreats in India where ordinary citizens can go for various periods of time to escape everyday anxieties and reflect on the meaning of their lives.
Being Cognition aka B-Cognition: Thinking or perceiving that is governed by B-values rather than by D-Motives. Such cognition is richer and fuller than D-cognition.
Being Motivation aka Growth Motivation: Motivation governed by the pursuit of B-values instead of by the satisfaction of basic deficiencies.
Being Values (B-Values) aka Metamotives: Those higher aspects of life pursued by self-actualizing individuals. Included are such values as truth, goodness, beauty, justice and perfection.
Belongingness and love needs: Third cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included are the needs for affiliation with others and for the feeling of being loved.
B-Love: Deep, nonpossessive, insatiable emotional relationship that is not aimed at satisfying any particular need. Such love contrasts with D-love.
Deficiency Motivation aka D-Motivation: Motivation governed by the basic needs. Characterizes the lives of individuals who are not self-actualizing.
Deficiency Motive aka D-Motive: Needs or deficiencies that exist in the hierarchy of needs prior to the level of self-actualization.
Desacralization: Any process that distorts human nature and depicts it as less marvelous and dignified than it is.
Desire to Know and Understand: Innate curiosity that Maslow believed was functionally related to the ability to satisfy all human needs.
Detachment and a need for privacy: characterizes the self-actualizing person.
Esalen Institute: Institute in California modeled after the Indian ashram where non-neurotic, healthy people can further develop their inner resources.
Esteem needs: Fourth cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included are the needs for status, prestige, competence and confidence.
Eupsychian Management: Industrial or societal management that attempts to consider the basic human needs as Maslow viewed them.
Metapathology: Psychological disorder that results when a being motive is not allowed proper expression.
Humanistic Psychology aka Third Force Psychology: Approach to psychology that emphasizes the experiencing person, creativity, the study of socially and personally significant problems, and the dignity and enhancement of people.
Guru: Spiritual leader of an Ashram.
Holistic-analytic Approach to Science: Strategy of studying an object of interest as a totality rather than attempting to reduce it to its component parts.
Why Self-Actualization is NOT Universal: 1. Weakest of the needs and easily impeded.
2. People fear the ind of knowledge about themselves that self-actualization requires.
3. Cultural environments can stifle.
4. Childhood influences can impede.

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