Lesson 4.2.1.6

4.2.1.6 Humanistic psychology Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which level sits at the top?

    • Esteem
    • Self-actualisation
    • Love and belonging
    • Safety

  2. What term does Rogers use for accepting a person without any conditions attached?

    • Unconditional positive regard
    • Conditional acceptance of others
    • Positive self-regard by others
    • Selective regard for others

  3. In Rogers's theory, congruence refers to:

    • The number of basic physiological needs that a person has satisfied in the past year
    • A pattern of learned responses that a person has built up through repeated rewards
    • A state of total dependence on other people for approval and a sense of worth
    • A match between a person's self-concept and their actual experiences and ideal self

  4. Which of Maslow's levels is the first to be met according to his hierarchy?

    • Safety needs, such as shelter and personal security
    • Esteem needs, such as respect from others and self-respect
    • Love and belonging needs, such as friendship and family ties
    • Physiological needs, such as food and water

  5. Humanistic psychology's central view of human nature is that people:

    • Are shaped entirely by reinforcement from the environment
    • Are predetermined by genetic inheritance
    • Are controlled mainly by unconscious sexual and aggressive drives
    • Have free will and are driven towards growth and self-fulfilment

  6. Which psychologist is most closely associated with the humanistic approach alongside Maslow?

    • Sigmund Freud
    • Albert Bandura
    • B. F. Skinner
    • Carl Rogers

  7. Maslow proposed that a person's need for food and water is classed as which type of need?

    • Self-actualisation
    • Physiological
    • Esteem
    • Safety

  8. A student's parents only praise her when she gets top grades. According to Rogers, what is this an example of?

    • Unconditional positive regard
    • Displacement
    • Conditions of worth
    • Self-actualisation

  9. A teacher accepts a pupil whatever the pupil does and shows warmth regardless of behaviour. Which Rogers concept does this illustrate?

    • Unconditional positive regard
    • Congruence between self and ideal
    • Physiological need for food
    • Conditional approval of behaviour

  10. A musician who has all basic needs met writes music purely to fulfil her potential. In Maslow's terms, she is most clearly seeking:

    • Safety
    • Physiological satisfaction
    • Love and belonging
    • Self-actualisation

  11. A person whose needs for food and shelter are not met is, according to Maslow, most likely to focus on:

    • Lower-level deficiency needs
    • Growth beyond the immediate environment
    • Aesthetic appreciation
    • Self-actualisation

  12. A client tells a therapist, 'I am not the person I want to be.' In Rogers's theory, this suggests:

    • Unconditional positive regard from others and self
    • Complete congruence with actual experience and ideal self
    • Incongruence between self-concept and ideal self
    • Successful self-actualisation and fulfilment of potential

  13. In client-centred therapy, which three conditions does the therapist provide?

    • Systematic desensitisation, flooding and modelling of feared situations
    • Interpretation, free association and dream analysis of the client's history
    • Reinforcement, extinction and punishment applied to specific behaviours
    • Empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence

  14. A strength of the humanistic approach is that it:

    • Measures behaviour with precise laboratory data gathered under strictly controlled conditions
    • Explains behaviour purely in terms of unconscious drives and early childhood conflicts
    • Places weight on the individual's subjective experience and conscious choices
    • Provides a complete account of human behaviour through genetic inheritance alone

  15. Why is self-actualisation difficult to test scientifically?

    • It only occurs in infants and cannot be meaningfully studied in adults at all
    • It is caused entirely by a single gene that can be identified in every person
    • It can be measured only through brain scans of the living, awake individual
    • It is vague and hard to operationalise in measurable terms

  16. A person believes she controls her own life, while another believes outcomes are fate. Which view does humanistic psychology favour?

    • The second person's belief in fate and predetermined outcomes
    • Neither view, because humanists reject the study of personal beliefs
    • The first person's belief in personal control and free will
    • Both views equally, because free will is a myth

  17. A criticism of the humanistic approach is that it:

    • Relies on animal studies with large samples of rats and monkeys in laboratories
    • Denies that people have any conscious thoughts, treating the mind as irrelevant
    • Ignores all forms of learning and reinforcement in explaining everyday behaviour
    • Relies heavily on subjective self-report and is hard to verify

  18. Maslow proposed that lower needs must be satisfied before:

    • Esteem can be developed through reinforcement
    • Physiological needs can ever be felt
    • Self-actualisation becomes possible in childhood
    • Higher needs become the dominant motivators

  19. A man has absorbed strong conditions of worth and suppresses his true feelings to win approval. What effect would Rogers predict?

    • Lower congruence between self-concept and experience, with possible anxiety
    • Higher congruence and greater self-actualisation as conditions of worth are removed
    • Reduced need for esteem and belonging, because the man has already reached self-actualisation
    • Immediate unconditional positive regard from others, which removes the need to hide feelings

  20. Which statement contrasts the humanistic view of human nature with the psychodynamic view?

    • Both approaches see humans as entirely controlled by environmental reinforcement, with little room for choice or self-directed growth
    • Humanists rely on controlled animal experiments, while psychodynamic theorists rely on large-scale self-report questionnaires
    • Humanists see people as self-directed and growth-seeking, while psychodynamic theorists see behaviour driven by unconscious conflicts
    • Humanists see behaviour as driven by unconscious conflicts, while psychodynamic theorists see free will and growth at its core

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