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What kind of approaches in therapy have demonstrated success in treating depression, eating disorders, several anxiety disorders, treating sexual offenders and those who suffer from schizophrenia?

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Cognitive behavioral approaches

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What is the inner sense within a person, which guides him or her in the directions of growth and health? (ex. the inner vague feeling that choosing a certain career, or a certain love partner, would be wrong for you, even if everyone else approves of that choice

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Organismic Valuing Process (intuition)

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What is consciousness?

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A chaos of ideas in an undisciplined mind. Also knows as the “drunken monkey”

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What is the sense in which the individual is dependent on others to take action on his or her belief?

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Proxy efficacy

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What are the three parts of the self?

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Ideal self, real self, & incongruence

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What is the positive trend toward growth that Rogers saw motivating human beings? The desire to grow, express, and activate all one’s capacities.

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The actualizing tendency

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What is motivation to perform an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than a means to some other goal? (ex. playing a guitar for fun)

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Intrinsic Motivation

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What process means wanting the behavior? Deciding whether it is worthwhile to behave as a model has behaved

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Motivational Process

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What does the second noble truth (Samudaya/samsara) state?

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There is a cause for suffering. The source of suffering is craving or attachment to desire. Addiction is the prime example. The consequences of ignorant craving and consequent bad behavior cause continued suffering.

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What is failure to regulate one’s behavior to live up to high moral standards? ex. • Convincing themselves that there is far worse behavior • Cheating because “everyone is doing it” • Rename the behavior to reduce the impact of their choice morally (ex. I’m not littering I’m throwing the trash out the window to keep my car clean)

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Moral disengagement

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What are standards that a person is expected to live up to in order to gain praise or acceptance or love?

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Conditions of worth

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What is the Buddhist term for absence of self?

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Anatta

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What term sees the person, environment, and behavior as having multiple influences on one another?

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Reciprocal Determinism

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What conveys the wisdom that reality, if accepted, produces positive emotional and spiritual change?

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Four Noble Truths

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What is the ideal self v. the real self?

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Incongruence

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What are the three types of efficacy? What do they share?

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Self, collective, & proxy They share the belief that effective action can be taken.

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Self actualization is a _____

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B need

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What is the first theory regarding therapy to be empirically researched?

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Person-centered theory

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Physiological needs, Safety needs, Love and Belongingness needs, & Esteem needs are all ______

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D - needs

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What is a spiritual teacher who may offer specific spiritual practices to develop awareness?

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A Guru

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What process means observing the behavior? Behavior must be seen to be learned if it is not seen it is not learned

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Attentional Process

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What is the sense that a group that do what is to be done? The group develops a belief about its power.

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Collective efficacy

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What is finding something about the client to value?

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Prizing

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What models control rewards?

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Controller (teacher) models

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What is therapy based on the belief that the person seeking help is the best judge of the direction that will lead to growth?
Client-Centered Therapy
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What are all these cognitive processes that we factor in when choosing a course of action; personal constructs that people use to describe themselves; cognitive structures and sub-functions for perceiving, evaluating and regulation behavior?
The self-system
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What is who you truly are before you start rejecting your real feelings and intuition ? This holds the actualizing tendency
Real self
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What is a construct that predicts better mental and physical health, socially responsible behavior, higher worker productivity?
Happiness
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What represents the annihilation of selfhood, with all its attachments and suffering?
Nirvana
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Buddhists see anger as being in a \_\_\_\_\_\_
Hell realm
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What process means remembering the behavior? Remembering what a model has done
Retention Process
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What are higher order needs?
B-Needs (Being)
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What focuses on strength to survive stressful situations or those in which one is mistreated?
Resiliency
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What parents offer much affection and unconditional acceptance to their children, teaching them the value of caring for others and being thoughtful in their interactions with other?
Authoritative Parents
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What is a behavior change that results from exposure to models?
Modeling
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What is the way of the elders? Simple living
Theravada Buddhism
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The key similarity between Maslow's theory and positive psychology is
The emphasis on immediate experiences as an aspect of healthy functioning
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What are dictator like parents? They stress obedience and respect for adults
Authoritarian Parents
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One big step in self-regulation is the choice of a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Goal
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What are lower order needs?
D-Needs (Deficiency Needs)
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What is the general tendency in all nature to move towards development? (ex. plant’s innate tendency to grow even in poor soil, ex. a person’s tendency toward self-actualization)
Formative Tendency
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Buddhists teach that life is \_\_\_\_\_\_, meaning things are constantly changing.
Transitory
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Who receives rewards?
Consumer (learner) models
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What emphasizes universality and freedom from suffering and compassion?
Mahayana Buddhism
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What perspective focuses on the value of personal growth and healthier aspects of human experience such as spirituality, creativity and tolerance?
Humanistic perspective
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What is the degree to which one lives in the present with full awareness, contact and full feeling reactivity?
Time Competence
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What does the third noble truth (nirodha) state?
There is a state of mind free from suffering. By stopping the cravings, the suffering is stopped. Detachment from craving is the key. Can be achieved thru meditation
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (more science) is the science version of the humanist perspective (ideology)
Positive Psychology
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What is the true nature of things?
The Dharma
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What is the idea that existence is continuous?
Rebirth
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What does the fourth noble truth (marga) state?
There is a way to end suffering. To end suffering we must end our cravings. The way to ending cravings is the Eightfold Path.
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What contains the potential for optimal growth?
True self
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What means doing work in ways that make it difficult to succeed?
Self-Handicapping
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What means the model may receive rewards and the learner believes that similar rewards may come to him?
Vicarious Reinforcement
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High self-efficacy beliefs are related to very _____ behavior toward a goal
Persistant
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What process means doing the behavior? The learner must have the ability to do the behavior
Motor Reproduction Process
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What is the name of the path that can help end suffering (not 8-fold)?
The Middle Way
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What are the three pillars of positive psych?
positive subjective experiences, positive traits and positive institutions
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What is believing one can organize and execute the necessary behaviors in a situation in order to be successful / deal with the situation at hand?
Self-Efficacy (confidence)
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Who is the leader of the group which does not direct the group in a structured way? Mostly there to keep the environment safe and facilitate expression of feelings of the group members.
Facilitator
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What involves recognizing the true nature of things and the path to Buddhahood (finding one’s true nature)
Awakening
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What is unconditional love which allows for the child to explore their potentials?
Unconditional Positive regard
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Who found enlightenment while meditating under a tree?
Siddhartha Gautama
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Who's theory was about cognitive social learning? This theory emphasizes learned behaviors and cognitions that are developed through experience. He emphasizes modeling as a way of learning by observing others, and criticizes culture for providing inappropriate (aggressive) models.
Bandura
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What is Maslow’s conceptualization of a perfect society? Highly developed people can find unique solutions to problems that more polarized people have struggled with to no avail. Even self-actualized people are not perfect yet they have awareness of their failings
Eupsychia
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What are group therapy session group members express empathy, wisdom, support and gentle confrontation?
Encounter Groups
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What are beliefs that if the person does the behavior successfully, it will result in positive outcomes?
Outcome expectations
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What is also known as the humanistic approach which was developed as a rebellion against behaviorists and psychodynamic theorists?
Third Force Psychology
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Who is "the awakened one?"
Buddha
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What is what you aspire to be?
Ideal self
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What are the consequences of choices?
Karma
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What means to wake up?
Buddhi
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What is the essence of humanness in which people act with intention, forethought, self-adjustment and thoughtfulness?
Human Agency
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What does the first noble truth (dukkha) state?
Life is full of suffering and it comes in many forms. Dukkha can be compared to basic anxiety.
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What added the idea of a guru or a teacher?
Tibetan Buddhism
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What is not due to a greater power, but due to one’s own search?
Enlightenment
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What means that the therapist has empathy for the client by understanding the subjective experience of the client?
Empathetic Understanding
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What measures the attitudes and values relating to the construct of self-actualization?
Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
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What is a central concept in Buddhism? It also includes empathy or social interest.
Compassion
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What proposes that people innately have three important psychological needs: competence, autonomy, relatedness?
Self Determination Theory (SDT)

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