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281) The first stage of motivational cycle is…….
a) Thirst State
b) Goal oriented
c) Drive state ✅
d) Anxiety
282) The “need of success” “expectancy for success” and the “incentive value of success” are three motivational factors which determined the strength of ……….motives.
a) Personal
b) Family
c) Achievement ✅
d) Social
283) Who assume that human motives are arranged in a hierarchy of potency?
a) Miller
b) Schechter
c) Singer
d) Maslow ✅
284) Maslow first introduces his concept of hierarchy of needs in his……….paper “A theory of human Motivation”.
a) 1943 ✅
b) 1957
c) 1962
d) 1978
285) How many levels exist in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5 ✅
286) The order of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, from bottom to top, is…
a) Safety, Belonging-Love, Self-Actualization, Self-Esteem, and Physiological
b) Psychological, Security, Happiness, Ego, and Self-Realization
c) Physiological, Safety, Belonging-Love, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization ✅
d) Physiological, Love, Self-Actualization, Esteem, Safety
287) Maslow’s idea about the structure of needs is known as…….
a) Self-actualization theory of motivation ✅
b) Physiological theory of motivation
c) Psychological theory of motivation
d) Psychophysical theory of motivation
288) Maslow viewed that motivated behavior is....
a) Need related ✅
b) A vector
c) An approach gradient
d) A valence
289) According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what is the first need that must be met?
a) Safety
b) Belonging
c) Esteem
d) Physiological ✅
290) The hardest stage to recognize individual needs is in the…
a) Love and belonging level
b) Safety level
c) Actualization level ✅
d) Esteem level
291) Who conceived a hierarchy of motives, at the peak of which is need for self-actualization?
a) Alfred A Knopf
b) Maslow ✅
c) K-Goldstein
d) Al-Ghazali
292) If a person does not feel accepted or loved, they have not reached what level, according to Maslow?
a) Level 1
b) Level 5
c) Level 2
d) Level 3 ✅
293) Maslow believed that basic needs should be met in order to move to a higher level.
a) True ✅
b) False
294) According to Maslow, some needs grow stronger when unsatisfied. Maslow called these…
a) Being needs
b) Deficiency needs ✅
c) Growth needs
d) Primary need
295) According to drive theory, needs that are essential for Human survival are referred to as.
a) Esteem needs
b) Belonging need
c) Physiological needs ✅
d) Safety needs
296) The term used to describe humans desire for life sustaining supports such as food and water is……
a) Safety needs
b) Secondary needs
c) Primary needs ✅
d) Esteem need
297) What is the highest level on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need Model?
a) Esteem
b) Self-actualization ✅
c) Love/ Belongingness
d) Safety
298) Abraham Maslow developed a theory in which he postulated that the healthiest people were “Self-actualizing transcoders” what is the name of theory?
a) Theory Z ✅
b) Self-actualization
c) Spiritual guide
d) Transcending
299) The need for safety and security is what level of Maslow’s hierarchy of need model?
a) Esteem need
b) Belongingness
c) Physiological
d) Safety needs ✅
300) Who reduced the Maslow’s hierarchy of need?
a) Alderfer ✅
b) Herzberg
c) McClelland
d) Edwin Lock
301) Which of the following is not a characteristic of self-actualized people according to Maslow?
a) They live creatively and fully using their potentials
b) They have efficient perceptions of reality, self and others
c) They are sensitive to fake and dishonest
d) They feel ashamed of their negative emotions ✅
302) According to Alderfer, Existence need is the combination of…
a) Physiological and Safety ✅
b) Esteem and self-actualization
c) Esteem and Physiological
d) Physiological and self-actualization
303) ........focus on the needs a person is trying to satisfy and the features of the work environment that seem to satisfy those needs.
a) Process theories
b) Content theories ✅
c) Situational theories
d) Motivational theories
304) Which of the following is a content theory?
a) Expectancy theory
b) ERG Theory ✅
c) Equity theory
d) None of these
305) What is the name of theory of Alderfer in which he reduced Maslow’s theory?
a) Expectancy theory
b) Two Factor
c) ERG theory ✅
d) Equity theory
306) What does “E”, “R” and “G” stand for in the ERG theory?
a) Export, Risk and Guarantee
b) Exponential, Reliability and Growth
c) Existence, Relatedness and Growth ✅
d) None of the above
307) Which of the following is a need that motivates human behavior as per the achievement motivation theory?
a) Power
b) Affiliation
c) Achievement
d) All of these ✅
308) Who proposed three Need theory or learned need theory?
a) Alderfer
b) Herzberg
c) McClelland ✅
d) None of these
309) Who proposed re-enforcement theory?
a) Edwin
b) B.F. Skinner ✅
c) McClelland
d) Herzberg
310) Which of the following options is a factor which the equity theory is not clear about?
a) How does a person choose the comparison other? ✅
b) Carefully explaining to the employees what their roles are
c) Making sure the rewards dispersed are equal among the employees
d) None of the above
311) Which of the following is true of Alderfer’s ERG theory?
a) It proposes five levels of human needs
b) The lowest level of human needs is called physiological
c) More than one level of needs can be active as motivators at the same time. ✅
d) Existence need must be satisfied before relatedness needs become important.
312) In Herzberg’s two-factor theory:
a) A job is motivating if all the hygiene factors are satisfied.
b) All motivators are intrinsic factors. ✅
c) Removal of all dissatisfactory elements makes a job satisfying.
d) All of the above
313) According to Frederick Herzberg, ............ are elements associated with conditions surrounding the job.
a) Hygiene factors ✅
b) Motivating factors
c) Economic factors
d) Environmental factors
314) Process theories of motivation include which of the following:
a) Reinforcement
b) Equity
c) Expectancy
d) All of these ✅
315) The basic components of .......... are effort, performance, and outcomes.
a) Equity theory
b) Goal-setting theory
c) Social cognitive theory
d) Expectancy theory ✅
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