Rogers - Person-Centered Theory Flashcards
What’s the name of Rogers’ theory?
Person-Centered theory
What are the basic assumptions of Rogers’ theory?
- Formative tendency – All matter, organic and inorganic tends to evolve to move complex forms.
- Actualizing tendency – Human’s only motive is to move toward to completion/fulfillment of potentials.
Define the formative tendency
All matter, organic and inorganic tends to evolve to move complex forms.
Define the actualization tendency
The predisposition to move toward completion or fulfillment.
Self-actualization is a subset of the ______ ______.
Actualizing tendency
What are the two self subsystems?
Self-concept – all aspects of being and experiences in awareness (note:
Ideal self – view of self as one wishes it to be.
Without _____, the self-concept and ideal self wouldn’t exist.
Awareness
Describe Rogers’ view of denial of positive experiences.
Compliments rarely have a positive influence on self-concept, because the person distrusts the giver or doesn’t feel deserving of the compliment.
How does an individual “become a person?”
By making contact with a caregiver whose positive regard for that individual fosters positive self-regard.
Name four barriers to psychological health.
- Conditions of worth
- Incongruence
- Defensiveness
- Disorganization
Describe the conditions of worth barrier to psychological health and its impact.
External evaluations, positive or negative, prevent us from being completely open to our experiences.
Conditions of worth and external evaluation lead to __, __, and __, and prevent people from experiences unconditional positive regard.
Vulnerability, anxiety and threat.
Incongruence develops when the___ self and the ___ self don’t match.
Organismic, perceived.
Describe the defensiveness barrier to psychological health.
When the organismic self and perceived self are incongruent, people will become defensive and use distortion (fit to self-concept) or denial (refuse to perceive experience) to reduce incongruence.
Describe the disorganization barrier to psychological health.
When distortion and denial aren’t sufficient to block incongruence, behavior becomes disorganized. May then act consistently with either organismic experience or their shattered self-concept.
