Personality Psychology Exam 4 Questions With
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The self and the tendency toward actualizaton - Answer✔*Basic Human motivation to actualize
maintain and enhance the self
*Process involves difficult growth.
Organismic Valuing Process - Answer✔Process of judging based on values for actualization
growth growth.
Phenomenology - Answer✔*any reliable reliability is subjective experience inner perception of
reality.
*Our experiences become the only basis for our judgement and behaviors.
Positive regard - Answer✔acceptance, love and approval from others. (Universal and persistent
need)
Unconditional positive regard - Answer✔approval regardless of ones behavior.
Positive self-regard - Answer✔condition under which we grant ourselves acceptance and
approval.
Conditions of worth - Answer✔Only worth of approval for desirable behaviors and attitudes
(similar to freuds superego)
Conditional positive regard - Answer✔approval, acceptance only when person exhibits
desirable behaviors (this means that sometimes children will avoid behaviors that otherwise
might be personally satisfying)
incongruence - Answer✔discrepancy between self-concept and experience.
psychological adjustment - Answer✔compatibility between self-concept and experiences.
Fully functioning person - Answer✔desired result of psychological development.
*aware of all experience
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*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 - 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 - Answer✔*therapy approach
*client is assumed to be responsible for changing
*focus on subjective experience
Encounter groups - Answer✔*group therapy for learning about feelings and relating to one
another (others developed tests of experience)
Research (Rodgers) - Answer✔*first to film therapy sessions for research
*openness to experience
*acceptance of self
*emotional adjustment
*q-sort technique: technique for assessing self concept.
emotional security
hopeful - Answer✔research on rogers theory:
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