Personality 2 Flashcards
Phenomenological
Emphasizes the importance of own personal experiences
Humanistic Psychology
Emphasizes the universal capacity for personal growth
Autotelic Personality
People who are internally driven, may exhibit a sense of purpose and curiosity –> does thing for their own sake, “here and no”, rather than for some later goals
Actualization
Tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism
Self-actualization
Process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self
Congruence
Integration within the seld and a coherence between yourself and your expreiences
Organismic valuing process
The internal signal that indicates whether self-actualization is occuring
Fully functioning person
A person who’s open to life’s experiences and who is self-actualizing
Positive regard
Acceptance and affection
Unconditional positive regard
Acceptance and affection with ‘no strings attached’
Conditional positive regard
Affection that is only given under certain conditions
Conditions of worth
Contingencies placed on positive regard
Conditional self-regard
Self-acceptance that’s based on performance in some domain of life
Reactance
A motive to regain or reassert freedom that’s been threatened
Ideal self
Your perception of how you’d like to be
Actual self
Your self as you presently views it
Self-handicapping
Create situations that make it hard to succeed, thus enabling avoidance of self-blame for failure
Stereotype threat
Having a negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudiced
Deficiency-based motives
Motives reflecting a lack within the person that needs to be filled
Growth-based motives
Motives reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate yourself
Peak experience
A subjective experience of self-actualizing
Flow
Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake - balance between ability level and challenge
Existential guilt
A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill your possibilities
Prototype
The representation of a category in terms of the best member of the category
