6.2 Flashcards
People are driven by an innate tendency to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self - said by who?
Carl Rogers
it is a basic motive to fulfill one’s potential and achieve the highest level of our ‘human-beingness’ (McLeod 2014)
Self-actualize
drive toward self-actualization is part of a ______
larger actualization tendency
is the basic human motivation to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self, which encompasses all physiological and psychological needs
Actualization tendency
All of the individual experiences either programmed into genetic makeup or acquired, are all brought to fruition by the
actualization tendency
the progress and advancement toward full human growth and development are neither _____ nor _____, and so to achieve its fullest potential and the highest level of ‘human-beingness’, the self usually encounters _____ and _____ (Schultz, 2005)
automatic, effortless, struggles, pains
Method of how we go over our life experiences which challenged our ‘human-beingness’
Organismic Valuing Process
a natural instinct directing you toward the most fulfilling pursuits (Feist, 2008);
Organismic Valuing Process
process by which you judge experiences in terms of their value for fostering or hindering your actualization and growth; it is also through this process that you evaluate all life experiences
Organismic Valuing Process
Through the Organismic Valuing Process, all experiences which are perceived as hindering and dissuading the actualization will be labelled as a _______
negative value
Through the Organismic Valuing Process, experiences perceived as promoting actualization will be labelled as a ______
positive value
In the Organismic Valuing Process, all unwanted situations which do not promote the actualization will be ______, while the desirable one will be ______ (Schultz, 2005).
disregarded, embraced
Important in understanding the development of self-concept, also known as subjective world of the individual
Experiential World
Where you operate daily, which provides you a frame of reference or context that influences your growth and behavior
Experiential World
The process by which the persons perceived it subjectively;
Phenomenology
It argues that the only reality of which can be sure is the person’s subjective world of experience (Schultz, 2005).
Phenomenology
the total sum of experiences
phenomenal field
Each individual exists in the ____ of a phenomenal field, the total sum of experiences
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