Carl Rogers Flashcards
The ability to change and improve personality is centered within the person
Person centered therapy
True or false
He did not developed his theory from his experiences working with patients or clients but rather from experimental research conducted in laboratories
False
He developed his theory from his experienced working with patients or clients
True or false
It is the therapist and not the person who direct such change
False
It is the person
True or false
We are rational beings ruled by a unconscious perception of our sleves and our experential world
False
Conscious
True or false
He gave very little importance to unconscious forces or other freudian explanation
True
True or false
Current feelings and emotions have a greater impact on personality
True
The inborn tendency to actualize, to develop our abilities and potentials to the fullest
Fully functioning person
Ultimate goal is to ___
Actualize the self
Acceptance of self and reality and a sense of responsibility for the self
Self understanding or self insight
___ were of greater importance in shaping one’s personality
External factors
True or false
All of us is capable of self insight
False
Not all of us
To actualize, maintain and enhance the self
Actualization tendency
It is the highest authority
Experience
As the actualization tendency in infancy leads us to __
To grow and develop our experiential world broadens
The only reality of which we can be sure is our own subjective world of experience, our inner perception of reality
Phenomenology
True or false
Progress toward full human development is automatic and effortless
False
Neither automatic nor efforless
We judge experiences in terms of their value for fostering or hindering our actualization and growth
Organismic valuing process
a frame of reference or context that influences our growth
The experiential world
Image of what we are, what we should be and what we would like to be
Self concept
True or false
The need for positive regard is universal and persistent
True
Acceptance, love and approval from other people
Positive regard
approval is granted regardless of a person’s behavior may it be desirable or undesirable
Unconditional positive regard
the condition under which we grant ourselves acceptance and approval
Positive self regard
A belief that we are worthy of approval only when we express desirable behaviors and attitudes and refrain from expressing those that bring disapproval from others.
Conditions of worth
A discrepancy between a person’s self concept and aspects of his or her experience
Incongruence
The self image is similar to the ideal self
Congruent
People learn about their feelings and about how tgey relate to (or encounter) one another
Encounter groups
Group sizes ranged from __
8 to 15 people
Developing all facets of the self
Fully functioning person
