Psy3051 - Personality - Chapter 5 & 6 - Rogers

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What can Roger's Person Centred Theory categorised as?

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Phenomenological or humanistic

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What does phenomenological theory emphasise?

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the individuals experience of his or her world.

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What does humanistic theory emphasise?

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people inherent potential for growth

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How does rogers theory differs from Jung and Freud?

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it emphasises conscious perceptions, interpersonal experiences, and capacity for growth

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What is the phenomenal field?

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the space of perceptions that makes up our experience

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What is the fundamental personality process in Roger's theory?

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self-actualisation

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What is self actualisation?

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a forward looking tendency towards personality growth

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What is the organismic valuing process?

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the innate capability for evaluating whether experiences promote or reverse growth.

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What did Rogers consider important for achieving self actualisation?

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nurturing psychological conditions

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What did Rogers consider the two basic human psychological needs?

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self actualisation and positive regard

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What 5 characteristics of someone who is fully functioning or self actualising?

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1. Honest and open to experience
2. Indifferent to material comforts and rewards
3. Caring
4. Deep distrust of science and technology that exploits people and the environment
5. Trust own experiences and a profound distrust of all external authority

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What is positive regard?

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the need for acceptance, respect, love, inclusion and affection from others.

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Describe the conflict between the human need for both self actualisation and positive regard interact?

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Satisfying one need may mean giving up the other, this leads to incongruence between the self and self concept.

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According to Roger's what is the difference between the real self and self concept?

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The real self is the person we are meant to be or the self actualised person and self-concept is the person we think we are which usually develops form the need for positive regard

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What refers to a mismatch between the real self and self-concept?

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incongruence

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Feelings, thoughts, behaviours or experiences that don't match the self concept reveal what?

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incongruence between the real self and our self concept

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What are the three solutions Roger's proposed to deal with incongruence?

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1. Change the experience to make it more congruent by using distortion or denial
2. Alter self-concept to positively include the new experience
3. Alter self-concept negatively to include the new experience

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What did Rogers develop to measure the extent to which the real self and self concept are congruent?

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Q-Sort Technique

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What is the goal of person centred therapy?

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congruence

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What are the three concepts of the self?

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1. Ideal Self - self you should be
2. Actual Self - self now
3. Real Self - self destined to be

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What is meant by non-directive therapy?

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Direction comes from the client rather than from the therapists insights.

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What is the role of the therapist in person centred therapy?

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to summise or reflect back to the clients an understanding of what the client says.

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What is another word for conditional positive regard?

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introjection

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What are the potential consequences of conditional positive regard?

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they experience reality in a second hand way, lose a sense of who they are and conform to others beliefs

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Unconditional positive regard is when you can separate what?

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the person from the behaviour

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Congruence is when there is a degree of accuracy between what three things?

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experience, awareness and communication

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When someone is being incongruent they can come across as what?

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inauthentic

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What did the footy player do to preserve his self concept?

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avoided the situation that challenged his self concept

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The need for positive regard offers feelings of what?

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need for worth

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What are the three conditions hypothesised by Rogers to be critical therapeutic movement?

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1. Congruence or genuineness
2. Unconditional Positive Regard
3. Empathic Understanding

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What is the therapists ability to perceive the clients experiences as they are experienced by the client know as?

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empathetic understanding

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What did Rogers fail to differentiate among forms of?

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pathology

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What did Roger's propose happens if the defence mechanisms such as distortion or denial are inadequate?

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1. reject self concept completely - paranoid delusion
2. Alter self concept to include 'mad and crazy'
3. Act out the denied experience as a psychotic episode

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What does The Italian Hairdresser example illustrate?

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Did everything herself and couldn't say no due to strong self concept and traditions. Teach her assertiveness training. Explained to her husband that it was too much.

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The Rogerian approach is helping people to clarify what?

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feelings

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What does congruence involve?

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genuine, sharing and a degree of self-disclosure

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What does he case of the violent bikie illustrate?

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violence expression of anger and frustration so therefore can connect and empathise through the experience of anger not the expression.

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What are some criticisms of Rogers theory?

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1. no emphasis on developmental stages
2. preoccupation with positive drives
3. lack of objective outcome measures