MCQ Week 3 Flashcards
Condiitons of worth
Standards of evaluation that are not based on ones own true feelings, preferences, and inclinations but instead on others judgements about what consistutes desirable forms of action
Congruence
Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict between the percieved self and experience. Also one of three conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress
Denial
A defence mechanism, emphasized by both Freud and Rogers, in which threatening feelings are not allowed into awareness
Distortion
According to Rogers, a defensive process in which experience is changed so as to be brought into awareness in a form that is consistent with the self
Ideal self
The self-concept the individual would most like to possess. A key concept in Rogers theory
Incongruence
Rogers concept of the existence of a discrepancy or conflict between the percieved self and experience
Need for positive regard
In Rogerian theory, the fundamental human need to be accepted and respected by other persons
Phenomenal field
The individuals way of perceiving and experiencing his or her world
Phenomenology
The study of human experience; in personality psychology, an approach to personality theory that focuses on how the person percieved and experiences the self and the world
Q-sort technique
An assessment device in which the subject sorts statements into categories following a normal distribution. Used by rogers as a measure of statements regarding the self and the ideal self
Self-actualisation
The fundamental tendency of the organism to actualize, maintain, enhance itself, and fulfil its potential. A concept emphasised by Rogers ad other members of the human potential movements
Self-concept
The perceptions and meaning associeted with the self, me or I
Self-consistency
Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict among perceptions of the self
Slef-esteem
The persons overall evaluative regard for the self or personal judgement of worthiness
Subception
A process emphasized by Rogers in which a stimulus is experienced without being brought into awareness
Authenticity
The extent to which the person behaves in accord with his or her self as opposed to behaving in terms of roles that foster false self-presentations
Client-centred therapy
Rogers term for his earlier approach to therapy in which the counselors attitude is one of interest in the ways in which the client experiences the self and the world
Contingencies of self-worth
The postitive and negative events on which ones feelings of self-esteem depends
Empathic understanding
Rogers term for the ability to perceive experiences and feelings and their meanings from the standpoint of another person. One of three therapist conditionals essential for therapeutic progress.
Existentialism
An approach to understanding people and conducting therapy, associated with the human potential movement, that emphasizes phenomenology and concerns inherent in existing as a person. Derived from a more general movement in philosophy
Human potential movement
A group of psychologists, represented by Rogers and Maslow, who emphasize the actualization or fulfillment of individual potential, including an openness to experience
Self-experience discrepancy
Rogers emphasis on the potential for conflict between the concept of self and experience - the basis for psychopathology
Unconditional positive regard
Rogers term for the acceptance of a person in a total, unconditional way. One of three therapise conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress
