Final Flashcards
Archetypes
An image in the collective unconscious; an innate pattern that influences experience of the real world (anima and shadow)
Personal unconscious
That part of the unconscious derived from an individuals experience
Collective unconscious
The inherited unconscious (not developed by personal experience)
Function of mythology
Contain the wisdom of the ages lying dormant in the brain and offer guidance for human life
Jung’s center of personality
The ego is seen as the center of consciousness, whereas the Self is defined as the center of the total personality, which includes consciousness, the unconscious, and the ego; the Self is both the whole and the center.
Synchronicity
The principle in which events are determined by transpersonal forces instead of by causes generally understood by science
Psychological type
A persons characteristic pattern of major personality dimensions (thinking-feeling, introversion-extroversion, sensation intuition)
Fully functioning person
Rogers term for mentally healthy person. Must tune out adverse socialization messages.
Openness to experience, existential living, organismic trust, experiential freedom, creativity
Actualizing tendency
The tendency for growth and reaching full potential that is innate in all organisms
Organismic valuing process
Inner sense within a person which guides them in the directions of growth and health
Ideal self
What a person feels they ought to be like
Real self
The self that contains the actualizing tendency
Unconditional positive regard
Accepting and valuing a person without requiring particular behaviors as a prerequisite
Hierarchy of needs
Ordered progress of motives from basic to physical needs upward to motives of the most developed humans
Deficiency motivation
Motivation at lower levels of development