The basic building blocks of heredity are ______.
a. cells c. genes
b. atoms d. chromosomes
Question 2Humanistic psychologists attempt to understand abnormal behavior by___________________.
a. evaluating the positive reinforcement available to people in the world
b. attempting to understand the individual's subjective experience and his experiences of being in the
world
c. analyses of unconscious drives and motives that people possess
d. evaluating the interaction of biological inheritance and environmental rewards
Question 3Mary goes to a therapist for treatment of her test anxiety. The therapist helps Mary find her own explanation of her anxiety and focuses on how various events in her life, such as her test anxiety,
have kept her from becoming self-actualized.
Mary's therapist's approach to treatment is most likely to have been influenced by the theories of ______.
a. Sigmund Freud c. Harry Stack Sullivan
b. Albert Ellis d. Abraham Maslow
Question 4According to humanistic psychologists, the tendency to strive to become all that we are
capable of becoming is called ______.
a. self-potentiation c. self-actualization
b. transcendental reformation d. catharsis
Question 5According to the humanists, if an individual is able to recognize his feeling and needs while being true to himself, he is living________.
a. free of neuroses
b. a life rich with reinforcement
c. an ego-integrated life
d. authentically
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