Rogers: Humanistic Flashcards

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Which force is humanistic theory? Essentially, what order in history did it occur?

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-third

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Who are the two main theorists in the humanistic perspective? (2)

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-Roger’s
-Maslow

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What two people influenced young Roger’s?

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-Otto Rank and Taft

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What movement influenced young Roger’s?

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-progressive education

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5
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What inspired Roger’s to come up with the “newer therapy”?

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-he wanted a therapy that was pragmatic that worked

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What are the aspects of the “newer therapy”? (4)

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-relies on the individuals ability and drive to grow
-more emphasis on feelings
-more emphasis on present than past
-the therapeutic relationship itself is incredibly useful, it is a growth relationship

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What is the actualizing tendency?

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-drive within every individual to grow and develop their fullest potential, move from simple to complex

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What is the organismic self?

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-the brain and body

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What is the organismic valuing process?

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-frame of reference that allows an individual to know if their experience is in accordance with their actualizing tendency, essentially will this experience help me grow or not

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How do we know if something is in accordance with our actualizing tendency?

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-if it helps you maintain or enhance what you have

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The actualizing tendency accounts for human motives, which motives does this include? (2)

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-maintenance needs
-enhancement needs

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What are maintenance needs?

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-the need to survive and keep the status quo

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What are the enhancement needs?

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-need for growth and development

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What is self-actualization?

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-realizing their full potential and fulfillment

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What is a subset of the actualizing tendency?

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-self actualization

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What is the self? What are the two component subsystems under the self? (2)

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-only humans have this, it’s the parts of experiences associated with I, me and mine
-self concept and ideal self

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What is the self concept?

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-the self we perceive ourselves being, it’s our subjective interpretation of who we are

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What is the ideal self?

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-as it name sounds, it is the self we want to be

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What are the 2 components that make up the self?

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-self-concept and ideal self

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What is experience? What about awareness? (2)

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-everything that is going on in a humans environment at a given moment in time
-we can become aware of all of it, but we are not aware of everything

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When does or how does experience enter awareness?

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-when it is symbolized (words, sounds, images)

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What is the phenomenological field?

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-it’s inside of us, and is composed of all inner experiences in the moment, including what you are and are not conscious of

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23
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What is synonymous with the subjective reality that directs our behaviour?

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-phenomenological field

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24
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What is the medium of the self-concept?

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-awareness

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What are the three levels of awareness? (3)

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-ignored or denied
-distorted
-accurately perceived

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How is the self-concept made? (2)

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-contact with another
-positive regard

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What is positive regard?

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-being cared for and accepted by others

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What produces positive self regard?

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-when you experience positive regard

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What did Roger’s say psychological health was? (2)

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-when we have a positive self regard that is autonomous, we don’t have to lean on others to feel good for ourselves
-congruence between different selfs

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What do you mean by congruence between different selfs? (2)

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-between your own opinion of your self (self-concept) and your real self or what others think you are (organismic self)
-between self-concept and ideal self

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What does congruence, autonomous positive self regard and overall psychological health require?

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-unconditional positive regard

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What is unconditional positive regard?

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-not conditional on behaviours

33
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What happens if you don’t get this unconditional positive regard?

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-psychological maladjustment

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What are the five psychological maladjustments? (5)

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-conditions of worth
-incongruence
-anxiety and threat
-defensiveness
-disorganization

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What are conditions of worth?

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-we have to do certain things to get love, external evaluations

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What is incongruence?

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-there is a gap between real self and self-concept

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What does incongruence cause?

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-anxiety and threat

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What is defensiveness?

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-distorting or even denying reality to pretend to be more like my ideal self

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When we look at psychological maladjustment, are all of these equal or does it go down the list and get worse?

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-people start at the top things and go down, not everyone hits every step

40
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What is disorganization?

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-they deny their denial, they have breakdowns

41
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Can you ever have a perfect overlap between the self-concept and real self (organismic self)?

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-no

42
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What is the structure of Roger’s theory?

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-self

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What is the developmental aspect of Roger’s theory?

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-self actualization supported by unconditional positive regard

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What is the disordered aspect of Roger’s theory?

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-incongruence from conditions or worth

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What seeds from the open Christian discussion group did Roger’s develop that helped him develop his future therapy? (2)

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-freedom of choice
-no external authority or direction

46
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Where does Roger’s say we find our sense of direction, our authority and our choices?

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-within themself

47
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What is humanism truly?

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-that we ourselves are the ultimate authority

48
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What has Roger’s been critiqued for? (2)

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-that his theories promote selfishness and egotism
-that his theories don’t work under religion

49
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What is Roger’s theory and therapy both called?

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-person centered theory and client centered therapy

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What are the three aspects of client-centered theory that guide our understanding of it? (3)

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-conditions
-process
-outcomes

51
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What did Roger’s changed the word patient for in therapy?

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-client

52
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What are the most important conditions in a therapeutic relationship according to Roger? (3)

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-congruence
-unconditional positive regard
-empathy

53
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What is congruence?

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-being genuine and authentic

54
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Describe the process stages (7).

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  1. Rigidity of self-perception: no recognition of the problems, they don’t exist
  2. Dim recognition of problem: recognizes problem in others but not self
  3. Self treated as object: talks about future or past feelings, but not present
  4. Partial recognition of feelings: beginning awareness of present feelings
  5. Improved recognition of feelings: expresses present feelings without fully understanding them
  6. Acceptance of feelings: freer awareness of experience
  7. New feelings experienced freely: full awareness of experience and unified self (called persons of tomorrow)
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What are the outcomes of client centered therapy when the six conditions are met? (3)

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-more congruent between self concept and organismic self as well as ideal self and self concept (genuine)
-less defensive
-more open to experience

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What is Roger’s view of science?

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-that much of our experiments are subjective, and that we try to make the empirical method objective

57
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What is the q-sort?

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-deck of 100 cards with qualities on them and asks people to sort every card based on most like you and least like you

58
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Describe the assumptions about human nature for Roger’s theory (7)

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-free choice
-optimistic
-future focused because of actualizing tendency
-conscious
-biological with actualizing tendency and social with self regard
-varied because we are all moving towards self actualization
-uniqueness

59
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Evaluate Roger’s person centered theory (6)

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-generates research: moderate
-allow falsifiability: high
-organize knowledge: high
-guide practical action: very high
-internal consistency: very high
-maintain parsimony: high