Self-Actualization and Self-Determination Flashcards
Actual self
Your self as you presently view it
Actualization
The tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism
Clarification of feelings
The procedure in which a therapist restates a client´s expressed feelings
Client-centered or Person-centred therapy
A type of therapy that removes conditions of worth and has clients examine their feelings and take personal responsibility for their improvement
Conditional positive regard
Affection thats given only under certain conditions
Conditional self-regard
Self-acceptence thats given only under certain circumstances
Conditions of worth
Contingencies placed on positive regard
the conditions we think we must meet in order for other people to accept us as worthy of their love or positive regard
Congruence
Carl Rogers stated that the personality is like a triangle made up of the real self, the perceived self, and ideal self. According to Rogers, when there is a good fit between all three components, the person has congruence.
Content analysis
The grouping and counting of various categories of statements in an interview
Continent self-worth
Self-accaptence that is based on a performance in some domain of life
Dasein
“Being-in-the-world” the totality of your autonomous personal existence
Deficiency-based motives
Motives reflecting a lack within the person that needs to be filled
Existential guilt
A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill all of your possibilities
Existential psychology
The view that people are responsible for investing their life with meaning
Flow
The experience of being immersed completely in an activity
Fully functioning person
A person who´s open to life experiences and who is self-actualizing
Growth-based motives
Motives reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate yourself
Humanistic psychology
A branch of psychology emphasizing the universal capacity of personal growth
Ideal self
Your perception of how you´d like to be
Organismic valuing process
The internal signal that indicates whether self-actualzation is occurring
Peak experience
A subjective experience of intense self-actualization.
A peak experience would most likely be experienced at Maslow’s highest level: self-actualization
Phenomenological
A view that emphasizes the importance of your own personal experiences
Positive regard
Acceptance and affection
Q-sort
An assessment technique in which you sort descriptions according to how much they apply to you
Reactance
The pattern of behaviors that occur in an individual when they feel their freedoms are being taken away or restricted.
Restatement of content
A procedure in which therapist rephrases the ideas expressed by a client
Self-actualization
A process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self
Self-Concordace
Pursuing goals that are consistent with your core values
Self-determination
Deciding for your self what to do
Self-handicapping
Creating situations that make it hard to succeed, thus enabling avoidance of self-blame for failure
Stereotype threat
Having negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudged
Transcendent self-actualizers
People whose actualization goes beyond the self to become more universal
Unconditional positive regard
Acceptance and affection with “no strings attaches” (loved for who you are)
