Personality Psychology Exam 4 REVISED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
The self and the tendency toward actualizaton - CORRECT ANSWER - *Basic Human
motivation to actualize maintain and enhance the self
*Process involves difficult growth.
Organismic Valuing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Process of judging based on values
for actualization growth growth.
Phenomenology - CORRECT ANSWER - *any reliable reliability is subjective experience
inner perception of reality.
*Our experiences become the only basis for our judgement and behaviors.
Positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - acceptance, love and approval from others.
(Universal and persistent need)
Unconditional positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - approval regardless of ones
behavior.
Positive self-regard - CORRECT ANSWER - condition under which we grant ourselves
acceptance and approval.
Conditions of worth - CORRECT ANSWER - Only worth of approval for desirable
behaviors and attitudes (similar to freuds superego)
Conditional positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - approval, acceptance only when
person exhibits desirable behaviors (this means that sometimes children will avoid behaviors that
otherwise might be personally satisfying)
, incongruence - CORRECT ANSWER - discrepancy between self-concept and experience.
psychological adjustment - CORRECT ANSWER - compatibility between self-concept
and experiences.
Fully functioning person - CORRECT ANSWER - desired result of psychological
development.
*aware of all experience
*live richly and fully in every moment.
*trust in our own organism
*feel free to make choices
*are creative & live constructively
*may face difficulties
free choice & present
environmental
optimistic
progressive - CORRECT ANSWER - questions about human nature:
-focus on ___ __ and ___
- ____ influences
-childhood has some impact, but later experiences have more impact
-opportunity for uniqueness
-____ : people are able to improve themselves
- experience world openly; ___ outlook
Person centered therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - *therapy approach
*client is assumed to be responsible for changing
*focus on subjective experience
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
The self and the tendency toward actualizaton - CORRECT ANSWER - *Basic Human
motivation to actualize maintain and enhance the self
*Process involves difficult growth.
Organismic Valuing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Process of judging based on values
for actualization growth growth.
Phenomenology - CORRECT ANSWER - *any reliable reliability is subjective experience
inner perception of reality.
*Our experiences become the only basis for our judgement and behaviors.
Positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - acceptance, love and approval from others.
(Universal and persistent need)
Unconditional positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - approval regardless of ones
behavior.
Positive self-regard - CORRECT ANSWER - condition under which we grant ourselves
acceptance and approval.
Conditions of worth - CORRECT ANSWER - Only worth of approval for desirable
behaviors and attitudes (similar to freuds superego)
Conditional positive regard - CORRECT ANSWER - approval, acceptance only when
person exhibits desirable behaviors (this means that sometimes children will avoid behaviors that
otherwise might be personally satisfying)
, incongruence - CORRECT ANSWER - discrepancy between self-concept and experience.
psychological adjustment - CORRECT ANSWER - compatibility between self-concept
and experiences.
Fully functioning person - CORRECT ANSWER - desired result of psychological
development.
*aware of all experience
*live richly and fully in every moment.
*trust in our own organism
*feel free to make choices
*are creative & live constructively
*may face difficulties
free choice & present
environmental
optimistic
progressive - CORRECT ANSWER - questions about human nature:
-focus on ___ __ and ___
- ____ influences
-childhood has some impact, but later experiences have more impact
-opportunity for uniqueness
-____ : people are able to improve themselves
- experience world openly; ___ outlook
Person centered therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - *therapy approach
*client is assumed to be responsible for changing
*focus on subjective experience
