Humanistic Psychology MCQs

Humanistic Psychology MCQs

Answer these 20 Humanistic Psychology MCQs and assess your grip on the subject of Humanistic Psychology. Scroll below and get started!

1: According to rogers, ______ is a person's need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another person.

A.   Can exist independently of other people's attitude toward them.

B.   Denial and distortion.

C.   Move toward psychological growth.

D.   Psychologically healthy people show little discrepancy between self and ideal self.

E.   Positive regard

2: Carl rogers had a ______ view of personality and thought that people were ______.

A.   Negative, basically antisocial

B.   Positive, basically antisocial

C.   Negative, naturally prosocial

D.   Positive, naturally prosocial

3: Gestalt psychologists believed that ____.

A.   Less is more

B.   There is less to perception than meets the eye

C.   More is less

D.   There is more to perception than meets the eye

E.   All of the choices can be true, depending on the situation.

4: Moral rules are _____, while conventional rules are _____.

A.   Personal; impersonal

B.   To promote organization; to ensure justice

C.   Optional; obligatory

D.   Obligatory; optional

5: Pavlov's work effected a change in focus from ____ to observable physiological events.

A.   Subjective speculation about associationism

B.   Any act that produces satisfaction is more likely to occur again

C.   Any act that produces discomfort is less likely to occur again

D.   Use of mentalistic processes

6: _____ is the degree of concern people have about an ethical issue.

A.   Social responsibility

B.   Ethical intensity

C.   Economic responsibility

D.   Ethical responsibility

7: ________ deals with whether fair procedures exist and whether those procedures were followed.

A.   Justice

B.   Distributive justice

C.   Procedural justice

8: Fluid intelligence includes _____.

A.   A knowledge of geographical facts

B.   The speed of processing mathematical information

C.   The size of one's science vocabulary

D.   The ability to recognize the name famous paintings

9: Services are usually provided through ____ directed at people or objects.

A.   Tangible and intangible products

B.   Physical labor

C.   Human or mechanical efforts

D.   Ideas and other intangible efforts

E.   Knowledge and technology

10: Watson and skinner are to _____ as rogers and maslow are to humanistic psychology.

A.   Behaviorism

B.   Introspection

C.   Both of these

D.   None of these

11: Traditionally, medications like depo-provera have been used for paraphilias to ________.

A.   Prevent or eliminate sexual fantasies

B.   Reduce the appetite of all sexually active males

C.   Block or reduce hormones like testosterone

D.   Reduce sensitivity to sexual intercourse

12: ________ is a term for the time, place, and circumstances into which you happened to be born.

A.   Existential location.

B.   Eigenwelt

C.   Thrown-ness.

D.   Angst

13: The prodromal stage of herpes is characterized by ________ at the site of infection.

A.   Burning and tingling

B.   Continuous efforts for growth

C.   Disinterest in others

14: According to sternberg, analytic intelligence involves _____.

A.   The skills used in everyday problem solving

B.   Abstract planning, focused attention, and verbal and logical skills

C.   The accumulation of facts and knowledge as a result of experience

D.   The capacity to be intellectually flexible and innovative.

15: Self-actualization involves all of the following except __________.

A.   Need for self-fulfillment

B.   Realization of one's potential

C.   Continuous efforts for growth

D.   Disinterest in others

A.   Method-centered

B.   Person-centered

C.   Problem-centered

D.   Time-focused

17: Maslow would classify the need for recognition from others and for self-respect as _________ needs.

A.   Social

B.   Esteem

C.   Security

D.   Physiological

18: People in _____ cultures are more likely to give priority to personal goals.

A.   Variable resource

B.   Herding

C.   Individualist

D.   Collectivist

19: Pubertal changes begin when a threshold of ____.

A.   A specific age is reached

B.   After the rites of passage have occurred

C.   Body fat is reached

D.   Specific height is reached

20: Unconditional positive regard means loving someone __________.

A.   Without considering the consequences

B.   Regardless of that person's behavior

C.   Because you yourself feel loved

D.   Unwisely

21: When selecting a therapist, it seems that white men and women who are of middle income _________.

A.   Have no preference regarding the gender of the therapist

B.   Prefer a female therapist

C.   Prefer a male therapist

D.   Prefer male and female co-therapists

22: Women today make up ____% of the u.s. labor force.

A.   75%

B.   65%

C.   55%

D.   45%

23: Rogers called his therapy groups ""__________.""

A.   Encounter groups

B.   Sensitivity groups

C.   T-groups

D.   Family constellation groups.

24: Many of the reflexes that infants are born with have ________ value. limited no survival fleeting

A.   Limited

B.   No

C.   Survival

D.   Fleeting