Self-Actualization and Self-Determination

Question 1

Actual self

Answer 1

Your self as you presently view it

Question 2

Actualization

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The tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism

Question 3

Clarification of feelings

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The procedure in which a therapist restates a client´s expressed feelings

Question 4

Client-centered or Person-centred therapy

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A type of therapy that removes conditions of worth and has clients examine their feelings and take personal responsibility for their improvement

Question 5

Conditional positive regard

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Affection thats given only under certain conditions

Question 6

Conditional self-regard

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Self-acceptence thats given only under certain circumstances

Question 7

Conditions of worth

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Congruence

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Content analysis

Answer 9

The grouping and counting of various categories of statements in an interview

Question 10

Continent self-worth

Answer 10

Self-accaptence that is based on a performance in some domain of life

Question 11

Dasein

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“Being-in-the-world” the totality of your autonomous personal existence

Question 12

Deficiency-based motives

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

Question 13

Existential guilt

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A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill all of your possibilities

Question 14

Existential psychology

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The view that people are responsible for investing their life with meaning

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Flow

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The experience of being immersed completely in an activity

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Fully functioning person

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

Question 17

Growth-based motives

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Motives reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate yourself

Question 18

Humanistic psychology

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A branch of psychology emphasizing the universal capacity of personal growth

Question 19

Ideal self

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Your perception of how you´d like to be

Question 20

Organismic valuing process

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The internal signal that indicates whether self-actualzation is occurring

Question 21

Peak experience

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A subjective experience of intense self-actualization.

A peak experience would most likely be experienced at Maslow’s highest level: self-actualization

Question 22

Phenomenological

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A view that emphasizes the importance of your own personal experiences

Question 23

Positive regard

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Acceptance and affection

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Q-sort

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An assessment technique in which you sort descriptions according to how much they apply to you

Question 25

Reactance

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The pattern of behaviors that occur in an individual when they feel their freedoms are being taken away or restricted.

Question 26

Restatement of content

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A procedure in which therapist rephrases the ideas expressed by a client

Question 27

Self-actualization

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A process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self

Question 28

Self-Concordace

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Pursuing goals that are consistent with your core values

Question 29

Self-determination

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Deciding for your self what to do

Question 30

Self-handicapping

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

Question 31

Stereotype threat

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Having negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudged

Question 32

Transcendent self-actualizers

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People whose actualization goes beyond the self to become more universal

Question 33

Unconditional positive regard

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Acceptance and affection with “no strings attaches” (loved for who you are)