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1

Maslow felt ________________ toward his mother during his entire life.
2

Maslow’s father wanted him to study _________________________, but Maslow thought that such a profession dealt too much with the evil within people.
3

The most basic needs of any person are _____________________.
4

The highest need on Maslow’s hierarchy is __________________.
5

Maslow believed that motivation is usually _________________, meaning that behavior is often an expression of a more basic need.
6

When ________________________ needs are not met, a person suffers from basic anxiety.
7

_______________________ needs are nonproductive, and their satisfaction does not foster health.
8

The two levels of esteem needs are ________________________ and self-esteem.
9

Self-actualizing people embrace the _______________________, a condition that separates them from other people who have met esteem needs but who do not achieve self-actualization.
10

Maslow distinguished between _________________________ behavior, which is often unmotivated, and coping behavior, which is motivated.
11

People deprived of self-actualization suffer from ___________________ in the same sense that people deprived of food suffer from malnutrition.
12

Lower level needs are _______________________ on the phylogenetic scale than are higher level needs.
13

Truth, goodness, and beauty are 3 of 14 ____________________, all of which may ultimately be one value.
14

_______________________ was described by Maslow as the love between two self-actualizing people.
15

Although self-actualizers are free from ____________________, they could suffer some psychosomatic illnesses.
16

Self-actualizers are ______________________-centered rather than person-centered.
17

Maslow found that self-actualizers have a __________________ sense of humor.
18

Shostrom’s Personal __________________ Inventory is an attempt to measure self-actualization.
19

The ___________________ complex is the fear of being or doing one’s best.
20

Maslow advocated a ________________________ attitude for psychology researchers, one that is noninterfering, passive, and receptive.
21

Runco and colleagues found that ____________________ was at least partially related to self-actualization.