Psych 232 Ch 10 Rogers – Flashcards
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According to Rogers, the best way to understand personality is through
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a person's subjective experiences
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The tendency to actualize involves
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becoming fully functioning
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Rogers's research on delinquent children showed that
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self-insight was the best predictor of later behavior
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Rogers believed that the tendency to actualize is
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innate
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Which of the following is part of the actualization tendency?
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physiological needs psychological growth process of maturation
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The process of maturation is
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often accompanied by struggle and pain
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The purpose of what Rogers called the organismic valuing process is to
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evaluate life experiences by how well they serve actualization
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According to Rogers, the way we see our environment is
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highly subjective
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Rogers believed that the experiential world is
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unique to each individual
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To Rogers, the only valid way to study personality is through
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examining each person's subjective experiences
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Rogers believed that the self is
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-our image of what we are and should be -a consistent pattern -an organized whole
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Rogers' term for the acceptance we need from others is
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positive regard
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According to Rogers, unconditional positive regard
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is not dependent on the child's behavior
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Positive self-regard
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comes more from within ourselves than from other people
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The old warning, "Of course Mommy loves you... when you're good!" is an example of
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conditional positive regard
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Conditions of worth derive from
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internalizing parents' norms and standards
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Our level of psychological adjustment and emotional health is a function of the extent to which our
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self is congruent with our environment
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The fully functioning person
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is open to all experiences and feelings
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Rogers's technique of psychotherapy is called
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person-centered therapy
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Rogers believed that personality should be assessed through
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a person's subjective experiences
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In Rogers's approach to therapy, the therapist provides
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unconditional positive regard
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Which of the following methods did Rogers use to assess personality?
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clinical interviews
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In his research on self-concept, Rogers used the
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Q-sort technique
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Q-sort research has shown that person-centered therapy increases the
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correlation between perceived self and ideal self
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Self-accepting mothers
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were more accepting of their children
