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
center
comprises of everything that is potentially available to consciousness at any given time
Phenomenal Field
Giving attention to any experience, the person becomes conscious of _______
Phenomenal Field
phenomenological field (_______), is your subjective reality, all that you are aware of, including objects, people, as well as your behaviors, thoughts, images and ideas.
yourself
In psychology, phenomenology has to mean the study of _______
human awareness and perception
Advocates of Phenomenology emphasize that what is vital is not the _____ or the ______, but how it is being ________ and ______ by the individual (Engler, 2016).
object, event, observed, understood
“Experience is for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience” by who
Carl Rogers
Experiences, therefore, become the only basis for your ______ and ______ (Shultz, 2005)
judgements, behaviours
With dissociation, experiential world _____
enlarges
With dissociation, Experiential world enlarges since it is stirred-up and agitated by the _______. It also develops a multifaceted experiential field as your social encounters grow.
actualizing tendency
With dissociation, As this process continues, the possibility would be one, or some part of your experiences become differentiated from others. This differentiated part, defined by the words I, me, and myself, is the _____ or _____
self, self-concept
means being disconnected to one’s true self, and when this happens, the actualizing tendency may deviate into behaviors that do not lead to actualization
Dissociation
emerged _____ is a portion of the phenomenological field, because its development is a result of the individual’s own valuing of its experiences and some of which have been introjected from the significant people
self-concept
in Dissociation, since the _____ in part through other people, dissociation is also possible
self-evolved
The “self” that one forms may be at variance with the ______
real experience
3 Components of Self-Concept based on Roger’s Humanistic Approach
Self-worth
Self-image/Real-Self
Ideal Self
This encompasses what and how you think about yourself. The feelings of self-worth usually developed and shaped from your interaction with your parents and other significant people during your early childhood. This is all about how you value yourself.
Self Worth
This includes the influence of your innate body image. How you see yourself is very crucial toward your good psychological health.
Self-Image/Real-Self
In self-image/real-life, according to Rogers (1954), the _____ is initiated by the actualizing tendency, follows organismic valuing, needs, and receives positive regard and self-regard. If everything goes well for you, then you will become successful.
“real self”
_______ also feels most true to what and who you are. Though may not be impeccable or perfect, but it is the part that feels most real to you (Grice, 2007).
real self
This is the person you like to become. It briefly represents your strivings to achieve your goals or ideals. Ideal self may not be consistent during the childhood stage to your current stage and to succeeding stages in life. This further suggests, that this is a continuing strong ambition which alters from time to time.
Ideal Self
The ______ could include components of what your parents have taught you, what you admire in others, what your society promotes, and what you think is in your best interest.
ideal-self
Sometimes, you experience pressures from the diverse actualizing tendency of the people around you, and if you are forced to live with the conditions of worth beyond your organismic valuing and receive only the conditional positive regard and self-regard, then you begin to develop ______ (Boeree, 2006)
ideal-self
Whenever there is a wide gap between the ideal-self and other components of the self, it is a signpost of ______ and _____. In this sense, there is a mismatch of your ______ from the ______.
incongruence, unhealthy personality, real-self, ideal-self
Rogers (1961) suggested that there are some things situated beyond your reachable that might result from the gap between the real self and the ideal self (Boeree, 2006). That is the self is borne out of _______ outside of you. The ideal self on the other hand developed over time, it is based from what you have learned from your experiences.
influences
- there is more overlap of self-image and ideal-self
- self-actualization will be easy
Congruence
When the self detaches from its value and self-worth, _______ develops
incongruence
The bigger the discrepancy between the real self and ideal self, the more we are _____ to what is reality and the chances of denying one’s real experiences
distant
In incongruence, it is important that one should be fully aware of its real experiences instead of _____ and ______ reality issues
distorting, denying
- there is only a little overlap of self-image and ideal-self
- Self-actualization will be difficult
Incongruence
