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1. The humanistic approach to personality is most similar to
A. behaviorism.
B. existential philosophy.
C. the trait approach to personality.
D. the psychoanalytic approach to personality.
2. A woman tells a humanistic psychotherapist that she wants to leave an unhappy relationship, but
that shecan’t. The therapist will probably set as a goal that the woman comes to understand that
A. she must live in the “here and now.”
B. there is a good part to everyone, even the man she is having trouble with
now. C. she should take responsibility for her choice to stay in or leave the
relationship.
D. when she gets in touch with who she really is and drops her defenses, many of her relationship
problems will also end.
3. A father tells his son that he loves him when the child is good, but says “I do not like you right now”
whenthe child misbehaves. The father is engaging in
A. denial.
B. conditional positive
regard.C. classical
conditioning.
D. an anxiety-reduction technique.
4. According to the humanistic approach, people will be happy when
A. their immediate needs, such as money and shelter, are met.
B. they establish meaningful personal relationships.
C. their lives are free from problems.
D. they move toward becoming fully functioning.
5. Which of the following does Rogers blame for our inability to incorporate new information
into ourself-concepts?
A. Disorganization
B. Conditional positive regard
C. Subception
D. Anxiety
6. After a woman has more or less satisfied all of the needs on Maslow’s hierarchy except the last one,
whatneed will now have a strong influence on her behavior?
A. The need to perceive herself as competent and achieving
B. The need to experience nonpossessive, unselfish love (B-
love)C. The need to develop her full potential, to be her true
self
D. The need for self-respect
, 7. When Csikszentmihalyi asked people to identify a moment when they felt most alive, participants
in hisstudy said that
A. they were engaged in a challenging task.
B. the task demanded the person’s full concentration.
C. each step in the task seemed to flow automatically to the
next.D. all of the above
8. Which of the following is a Rogerian psychotherapist likely to use during therapy?
A. Conditional positive regard
B. Rephrasing and reflecting clients’ words back to them
C. Dream interpretation
D. Conditions of worth
9. Humanistic psychologists maintain each of the following about self-disclosure except one. Which one?
A. Self-disclosure is an important part of the therapy process.
B. Self-disclosure allows people to better understand themselves.
C. Self-disclosure allows people to grow emotionally and move toward self-actualization.
D. Knowing when to self-disclose and when to avoid disclosure is a sign of good personal
adjustment.
10. According to the rule of disclosure reciprocity,
A. we should always wait for people to disclose something about themselves before disclosing
intimateinformation about ourselves.
B. we should always try to say something self-disclosing when first meeting another person.
C. two people involved in a get-acquainted conversation reveal information about themselves at
roughlythe same level of intimacy.
D. we usually like people who self-disclose to us.
11. If you had to say you learned something about conversations in this chapter, which of the following
wouldit be?
A. Noticeable signs of intimacy are lacking in conversations with strangers.
B. Familiar terms are not used very often among good friends.
C. There is little difference between the amount of self-disclosure with friends and with strangers.
D. There is more confusion over when to speak in conversations with good friends than in
conversationswith strangers.
12. Research has shown that men and women are more likely to be accepted when they disclose
according toappropriate gender roles in society. For men, this means
A. withholding information for the most part.
B. disclosing information that is misleading or simply false.
C. never revealing anything about one’s
self.D. none of the above
13. Your best friend has been in a serious automobile accident. According to research on
disclosure oftraumatic experiences, you might suggest that your friend
A. attempt to shut out any thoughts and feelings associated with the accident.
B. talk about his or her feelings with friends or a trained therapist.
C. avoid talking about the accident until it seems right to
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