Rogers: Person-Centered Theory Flashcards
A tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.
Formative tendency
The tendency within all humans to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.
Actualizing tendency
The need to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth.
Enhancement
Includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experience that are perceived in awareness by the individual.
Self-concept
One’s view of self as one wishes to be.
Ideal self
The symbolic representation of some portion of our experiences.
Awareness
A need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another person.
Positive regard
The experience of prizing or valuing one’s self.
Positive self-regard
People perceive that their parents, peers, or partners love and accept them only if they meet those people’s expectations and approval.
Conditions of worth
Our perceptions of other people’s view of us.
External evaluations
A state of uneasiness or tension whose cause i unknown.
Anxiety
An awareness that our self is no longer whole or congruent.
Threat
The protection of the self-concept against anxiety and threat by the denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with it.
Defensiveness
People misinterpret an experience in order to fit it into some aspect of our self-concept.
Distortion
People refuse to perceive an experience in awarenss, or at least they keep some aspect of it from reaching symbolization.
Denial
