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Personality Ch. 12
Self-Actualization Position (Maslow) Ryckman 10e
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| authoritarian parenting style | A disciplinary style in which parents discourage verbal give-and-take with their children and expect instead compete and unquestionable obedience to their judgments. Failure to comply can result in physical and/or verbal abuse of their children |
| authoritative parenting style | A disciplinary style in which children are consulted by parents in the establishment of disciplinary rules. Reinforced for adherence and punished firmly & consistently for non adherence w/o physical or verbal abuse. Such parents are warm respectful. |
| B-cognition | State of experiencing that is nonjudgmental and self-validating. |
| B-love | A mature form of love in which the person is more concerned with giving love to benefit others than in receiving love from others to gratify his or her needs; also know as being-love |
| D-cogningion | State of experiencing that involves judgments of approval and disapproval. |
| D-love | A selfish love in which the individual is more concerned with receiving love and gratifying his or her needs than with giving love to another; also know as deficiency-love. |
| deficiency needs | Basic needs that must be gratified to a large extent before an individual can progress toward self-actualization. |
| desacralizing attitude | Tendency to be disrespectful, cynical, and mistrustful; it causes the perceiver to overlook the virtues and strengths of the perceived. |
| growth needs | Higher needs that may emerge once the basic needs have been satisfied; also known as meta needs. |
| humanistic biology | View that the basic nature of human beings is potentially good and capable of pushing people in the direction of self-realization if the right social conditions prevail. |
| humanistic psychology | Approach to psychology that is primarily concerned with helping individuals to reach their maximum development and that emphasizes, and tries to foster, the dignity and worth of each human being. |
| Jonah complex | Fear that exercising our abilities to the maximum will bring with it responsibilities and duties that we will be unable to handle; an unwillingness to sacrifice current safety and security for the unknown. |
| peak experience | Intense, mystical experience in which an individual exists in a temporary state of joy and wonderment. |
| permissive parenting style | A disciplinary style in which parents make few demands on their children and use little punishment. Parents typically shower their children with affection and go along with whatever their children want to do; such parents provide little active guidance. |
| Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) | Test designed to measure an individual's self-actualizing tendencies. |
| self-actualization | Process whereby the healthy development of peoples's abilities enables them to fulfill their own true natures. |
| self-actualizers | Individuals who have gratified their basic needs and developed their potentialities to the point that they can be considered healthy, more fully functioning human beings. |
| transcending self-actualizing person | The mos fully developed, psychologically healthy person, one who frequently has B-cognition and peak experiences and can transcend his /her own selfish concerns and work to better humankind. |
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