MCQ Week 3

Question 1

Condiitons of worth

Answer 1

Standards of evaluation that are not based on ones own true feelings, preferences, and inclinations but instead on others judgements about what consistutes desirable forms of action

Question 2

Congruence

Answer 2

Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict between the percieved self and experience. Also one of three conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress

Question 3

Denial

Answer 3

A defence mechanism, emphasized by both Freud and Rogers, in which threatening feelings are not allowed into awareness

Question 4

Distortion

Answer 4

According to Rogers, a defensive process in which experience is changed so as to be brought into awareness in a form that is consistent with the self

Question 5

Ideal self

Answer 5

The self-concept the individual would most like to possess. A key concept in Rogers theory

Question 6

Incongruence

Answer 6

Rogers concept of the existence of a discrepancy or conflict between the percieved self and experience

Question 7

Need for positive regard

Answer 7

In Rogerian theory, the fundamental human need to be accepted and respected by other persons

Question 8

Phenomenal field

Answer 8

The individuals way of perceiving and experiencing his or her world

Question 9

Phenomenology

Answer 9

The study of human experience; in personality psychology, an approach to personality theory that focuses on how the person percieved and experiences the self and the world

Question 10

Q-sort technique

Answer 10

An assessment device in which the subject sorts statements into categories following a normal distribution. Used by rogers as a measure of statements regarding the self and the ideal self

Question 11

Self-actualisation

Answer 11

The fundamental tendency of the organism to actualize, maintain, enhance itself, and fulfil its potential. A concept emphasised by Rogers ad other members of the human potential movements

Question 12

Self-concept

Answer 12

The perceptions and meaning associeted with the self, me or I

Question 13

Self-consistency

Answer 13

Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict among perceptions of the self

Question 14

Slef-esteem

Answer 14

The persons overall evaluative regard for the self or personal judgement of worthiness

Question 15

Subception

Answer 15

A process emphasized by Rogers in which a stimulus is experienced without being brought into awareness

Question 16

Authenticity

Answer 16

The extent to which the person behaves in accord with his or her self as opposed to behaving in terms of roles that foster false self-presentations

Question 17

Client-centred therapy

Answer 17

Rogers term for his earlier approach to therapy in which the counselors attitude is one of interest in the ways in which the client experiences the self and the world

Question 18

Contingencies of self-worth

Answer 18

The postitive and negative events on which ones feelings of self-esteem depends

Question 19

Empathic understanding

Answer 19

Rogers term for the ability to perceive experiences and feelings and their meanings from the standpoint of another person. One of three therapist conditionals essential for therapeutic progress.

Question 20

Existentialism

Answer 20

An approach to understanding people and conducting therapy, associated with the human potential movement, that emphasizes phenomenology and concerns inherent in existing as a person. Derived from a more general movement in philosophy

Question 21

Human potential movement

Answer 21

A group of psychologists, represented by Rogers and Maslow, who emphasize the actualization or fulfillment of individual potential, including an openness to experience

Question 22

Self-experience discrepancy

Answer 22

Rogers emphasis on the potential for conflict between the concept of self and experience - the basis for psychopathology

Question 23

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 23

Rogers term for the acceptance of a person in a total, unconditional way. One of three therapise conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress