Question 1

This theorist's theory underwent several change the name, from nondirective, client centered, person centered, student centered, group centered. The theory follows an if-then framework

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Carl Rogers' person-centered theory

Question 2

Rogers person-centered theory rests on two basic assumptions:

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The formative tendency and the actualizing tendency

Question 3

According to Rogers, this tendency states that all matter, both organic and inorganic, tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms. Human consciousness evolves from a primitive unconsciousness to a highly organized awareness.

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Formative tendency

Question 4

According to Rogers, this tendency suggests that all living things, including humans, tend to move toward completion, or fulfillment of potentials.

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Actualizing tendency. For people to become actualized, certain conditions must be present and for person this includes a relationship with another person who is genuine, or congruent, and who demonstrates complete acceptance and empathy for that person.

Question 5

According to Rogers, this need is similar to lower steps on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It includes such basic needs as food, air, and safety and also the tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo

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The need for maintenance

Question 6

According to Rogers, this is the need to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth

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The need for enhancement

Question 7

According to Rogers, this is a subsystem of the actualization tendency and refers to the tendency to actualize a self as perceived in awareness

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Self-actualization

Question 8

According to Rogers, the self has two subsystems:

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The self-concept and the ideal self

Question 9

According to Rogers, this self subsystem includes all those aspects of one's identity that are perceived in awareness

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The self-concept

Question 10

According to Rogers, this self subsystem is defined as one's view of self as one wishes to be

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The ideal self

Question 11

According to Rogers, a wide gap between the ideal self and the self-concept indicates:

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Incongruence and various levels of psychopathology

Question 12

According to Rogers, this is the symbolic representation of some portion of our experience. He was the term synonymously with both consciousness and symbolization

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Awareness

Question 13

Rogers saw people's having experiences on three levels of awareness:

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1) those that are experienced below the threshold of awareness and are either ignored or denied 2) those that are distorted or reshaped to fit into an existing self-concept 3) those that are consistent with the self-concept and thus are accurately symbolized and freely admitted to the self-structure

Question 14

According to Rogers, many people have difficulty excepting genuine compliments and positive feedback, even when deserved. Compliments may be distorted because the person just stressed to give her, or they may be denied because the recipient does not feel deserving of them. This is called:

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Denial of positive experiences

Question 15

According to Rogers, this is the need to be loved, like, or excepted by another person:

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The need for positive regard

Question 16

According to Rogers, this is the experience of prizing are valuing oneself. Receiving positive regard from others is necessary for this, but once established it becomes independent of the the continual need to be loved

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Positive self regard

Question 17

According to Rogers, this is when a person feels that they are loved and accepted only when and if they meet the conditions set by others

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Conditions of worth

Question 18

According to Rogers, our perceptions of other people's view of us

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External evaluations

Question 19

According to Rogers, when we fail to recognize our organismic experiences as self experiences, when we do not accurately symbolize organismic experiences into awareness because they appear to be inconsistent with our emerging self-concept, this is called:

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Incongruence. Incongruence between our self-concept and organismic experiences is the source of psychological disorders. Conditions of worth that we received during early childhood lead to a somewhat false self concept based on distortions and denials.

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