PSY-255 Quiz 3 Chapters 11-14

Name: Class: PSY-255 Date: Quiz 3 Chapters 11-14 All Question 2.5 Points Each 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. The “third force” in psychology was developed in part to promote a view of humankind different from the ones presented by the a. Freudian and trait approaches. b. Freudian and behaviorism approaches. c. trait and behaviorism approaches. d. Freudian and social learning approaches. 3. A woman tells a humanistic psychotherapist that she wants to leave an unhappy relationship, but that she can’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. 4. Which of the following concepts is generally accepted by advocates of the humanistic approach to psychology? a. No one can know a client in therapy better than the client himself or herself. b. It is the therapist’s job to explain to the client the new goals the client must set for himself or herself. c. People should spend more time thinking about the future and planning the directions of their lives. d. People need to see how their past sets the course for where their lives are going.