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.


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.

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