Personality 2

Question 1

Phenomenological

Answer 1

Emphasizes the importance of own personal experiences

Question 2

Humanistic Psychology

Answer 2

Emphasizes the universal capacity for personal growth

Question 3

Autotelic Personality

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Actualization

Answer 4

Tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism

Question 5

Self-actualization

Answer 5

Process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self

Question 6

Congruence

Answer 6

Integration within the seld and a coherence between yourself and your expreiences

Question 7

Organismic valuing process

Answer 7

The internal signal that indicates whether self-actualization is occuring

Question 8

Fully functioning person

Answer 8

A person who’s open to life’s experiences and who is self-actualizing

Question 9

Positive regard

Answer 9

Acceptance and affection

Question 10

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 10

Acceptance and affection with ‘no strings attached’

Question 11

Conditional positive regard

Answer 11

Affection that is only given under certain conditions

Question 12

Conditions of worth

Answer 12

Contingencies placed on positive regard

Question 13

Conditional self-regard

Answer 13

Self-acceptance that’s based on performance in some domain of life

Question 14

Reactance

Answer 14

A motive to regain or reassert freedom that’s been threatened

Question 15

Ideal self

Answer 15

Your perception of how you’d like to be

Question 16

Actual self

Answer 16

Your self as you presently views it

Question 17

Self-handicapping

Answer 17

Create situations that make it hard to succeed, thus enabling avoidance of self-blame for failure

Question 18

Stereotype threat

Answer 18

Having a negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudiced

Question 19

Deficiency-based motives

Answer 19

Motives reflecting a lack within the person that needs to be filled

Question 20

Growth-based motives

Answer 20

Motives reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate yourself

Question 21

Peak experience

Answer 21

A subjective experience of self-actualizing

Question 22

Flow

Answer 22

Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake - balance between ability level and challenge

Question 23

Existential guilt

Answer 23

A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill your possibilities

Question 24

Prototype

Answer 24

The representation of a category in terms of the best member of the category

Question 25

Default

Answer 25

Something you assume to be true until you learn otherwise

Question 26

Script

Answer 26

Memory structure used to represent a highly stereotyped category of events

Question 27

Procedural knowledge

Answer 27

Knowledge about doing, engaging in specific behaviors and mental representations

Question 28

Self-complexity

Answer 28

The degree to which your self-schema is differentiated and compartmentalized

Question 29

Possible self

Answer 29

An image of yourself in the future

Question 30

Attribution

Answer 30

The process of making judgment about the cause or causes of an event

Question 31

Schema

Answer 31

A framework that structures knowledge