Humanistic psychology

Question 1

What is congruence?

Answer 1

When your ideal self and real self are similar

Question 2

What is incongruence?

Answer 2

When your ideal self and real self are different

Question 3

What state are most people in?

Answer 3

Incongruence and they uses defence mechanisms to cope with this

Question 4

What was the response to the realisation Incongruence was common?

Answer 4

Rodger created a client-centred therapy to improve self esteem

Question 5

What was Rodger’s view?

Answer 5

He said that the problems stemmed from childhood and not receiving unconditional love. Known as conditional worth

Question 6

Evaluation for the humanistic approach.

Answer 6

Holism
Individual differences
Research support

Question 7

Evaluation point: Holism

Answer 7

Looks at all the aspects of a person which other approaches fail to do.

Question 8

Evaluation point: Individual differences

Answer 8

It’s seen as a positive approach, however it ignore people’s capacity for self-destruction, hence ignoring individual differences.

Question 9

Evaluation point: research support

Answer 9

People who create a false self, pretending to be the sort of person their parents would love are more likely to suffer from depression, supporting conditions of worth