For Abraham Maslow, Our Personalities Reflect

question 214

Multiple Choice

For Abraham Maslow, our personalities reflect:

• A) a few central traits and a greater number of secondary traits.
• B) the ways we cope with the struggle to find meaning in existence.
• C) whether or not a person received unconditional positive regard throughout childhood.
• D) a gradual progression toward self-actualization.

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Definitions:

Legitimate Work

Employment or tasks that are lawful and recognized as valid and respectable within society.

Relative Deprivation Theory

A sociological view that posits individuals feel deprived not on the basis of objective conditions, but by comparing their situation to others'.

Frustration

Frustration is the feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.

Gould's Theory

Refers to a sociobiological framework proposed by Stephen Jay Gould, which suggests that human behaviors and social structures are influenced by evolutionary biology.