Chapter 10 TF Flashcards
Carl Rogers’ parents were teachers, and they encouraged him to become a teacher.
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Rogers’s theory of personality grew out of his experiences as a psychotherapist.
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Rogers’ approach to psychotherapy is most accurately called nondirective.
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As a schoolboy, Rogers became interested in scientific farming, an interest that contributed to his later research abilities.
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After receiving his PhD, Rogers spent more than 10 years in clinical practice, mostly isolated from the academic community, and this isolation helped him develop an approach to therapy that was unique.
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Once the self-concept is formed, change becomes difficult.
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Self-actualization is a subsystem of the actualizing tendency.
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In Rogerian theory, the actualizing tendency refers to the person’s organismic or physiological experiences.
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Rogers believed that healthy people adjust their organismic self in order to make it congruent with their ideal self.
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Receiving praise or compliments can be threatening to a person’s self-concept.
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Maintenance needs include the need to resist change.
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After people have established unconditional positive self-regard, they no longer depend on others for unconditional positive regard
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Rogers held that healthy people evaluate their experience from the viewpoint of significant others.
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According to Rogers, people with low self-worth who receive positive external evaluations will assimilate these evaluations into their self-concept, and thus will grow toward psychological healt
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According to Rogers, a vulnerable person is unaware of the discrepancy between self and experience.
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