Lesson 10 - Carl Rogers

Question 1

Although he is best known as the founder of client-centered therapy, he developed a humanistic theory of personality that grew out of his experiences as a practicing psychotherapy.

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Carl Rogers

Question 2

all matter, both organic and inorganic, tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms

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Formative Tendency

Question 3

all living things, including humans, tend to move toward completion, or fulfillment of potentials.

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Actualizing Tendencies

Question 4

Human actualizing tendencies is only recognized under a certain categories:

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A person should be in a relationship with a CONGRUENT or authentic partner who displays EMPATHY and UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARDS

Question 5

This includes such basic needs as food, air, and safety; but it also includes the tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo, conservative in nature.

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Need for Maintenance

Question 6

includes the need to become more, to develop, and
to achieve growth

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Need for Enhancement

Question 7

refers to organismic experiences of the individual; the whole person, conscious and unconscious, physiological and cognitive.

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Actualization Tendency

Question 8

the tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness

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Self-actualization

Question 9

includes all those aspects of one’s identity that are perceived in awareness, not identical with organismic self.

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Self-concept

Question 10

Self-concept is not identical to?

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Organismic self

Question 11

Our view of our self as we who would like to be or aspire to be.

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Ideal Self

Question 12

A wide gap between the ideal self and the self-concept indicates?

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Incongruence

Question 13

Three levels of awareness

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Ignored and Denied or not allowed into self-concept
Disorted or reshaped to fit into an existing self-concept
Accurately mbolized and free admitted to self-structure

Question 14

need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another person

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Positive regards

Question 15

defined as the experience of prizing or valuing one’s self positive regard from others is necessary for positive self-regard, but once positive

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Positive Regards

Question 16

Stage 1

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Client is unwilling to communicate anything about oneself

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Stage 2

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Client become less slightly rigid

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Stage 3

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client talk more freely about self, although still as an object

Question 19

Stage 4

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client begin to talk of deep feelings but not ones presently felt

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Stage 5

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client begun to undergo significant change and growth

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Stage 6

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client experience dramatic growth and an irreversible movements
toward becoming fully functioning or self-actualizing

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Stage 7

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client become fully functioning “person of tomorrow”

Question 23

Determinism vs free choice

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Free choice

Question 24

Pessimism vs optimism

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Optimism

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Causality vs teleology

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Teleology

Question 26

Conscious vs unconscious determinants

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Conscious

Question 27

Biological vs social factors

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Social factors

Question 28

Uniqueness vs similarities in people

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Uniqueness

Question 29

Characteristics of “Persons of Tommorow”

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More adaptable Open to their experiences Trust in their organismic selves Live fully in the moment Harmonious relationship with others More integrated A basic trust of human nature Enjoy a greater richness in life

Question 30

Therapeutic Outcomes

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Become more congruent Become less defensive Become less anxious Become less vulnerable to threat Become more open to experiences Have more realistic view of the world Develop positive self regard