Author Question: In the context of Maslow's work on self-actualization, _____ were Maslow's first research subjects. ... (Read 255 times)

SGallaher96 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

In the context of Maslow's work on self-actualization, _____ were Maslow's first research subjects.

a. artists
b. historical figures
c. college students
d. middle-aged and older adults

Question 2

Maslow's work on self-actualization began as an attempt to understand the personalities of:

a. psychoanalytic pioneers Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.
b. statistician Raymond Cattell and author and mathematician Lewis Carrol.
c. anthropologist Ruth Benedict and the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer.
d. psychotherapist Carl Jung and scientist B. F. Skinner.

samiel-sayed · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Maslow started his investigation simply to satisfy his own curiosity about two well-known people who impressed him, the anthropologist Ruth Benedict and the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer. His first research subjects were college students, but he found only 1 out of 3,000 he could describe as self-actualizing.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Maslow's work on self-actualization did not begin as a formal program of personality assessment and research. He started his investigation simply to satisfy his own curiosity about two well-known people who impressed him, the anthropologist Ruth Benedict and the Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer.