According to Carl Rogers, _____ is the protection of the self-concept against anxiety and threat by the denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with it.
According to Carl Rogers, our perceptions of other people’s view of us are called
According to Rogers, incongruence occurs when there is
Which of the following terms is least appropriate with regard to Carl Rogers?
Rogers would say that unconditional positive regard is at the greatest variance with
Rogers called the tendency for matter (organic and inorganic) to evolve from simple to more complex forms
In general, the Chicago Studies demonstrated that client-centered therapy
According to Rogers, the _____ includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that are perceived in awareness by an individual.
According to Rogers, infants begin to develop a vague concept of self when a portion of their experience becomes personalized and differentiated in
“I lived my childhood as a middle child in a large, close-knit family, where hard work and a highly conservative (almost fundamentalist) Protestant Christianity were about equally revered. Although I intended to become a farmer, I lost interest in farming and became deeply involved with religious activities on my college campus.” The most likely author of this quote is
The research on the effectiveness of client-centered therapy reported by Rogers and Dymond indicated that after therapy, clients
Carl Rogers is best known as
Rogers believed that a successful therapist
Which of these is not a characteristic of Rogers’ “person of tomorrow”?
In describing psychological maladjustment, Rogers preferred to speak of it in terms of
According to Rogers, compliments and positive feedback
According to Rogers’ view of the therapeutic process, psychological growth appears to be dramatic and there is an irreversible movement toward becoming fully functioning or self-actualizing at
Existential therapists must
May suggested that freedom and destiny are
From an existential perspective, people acquire freedom of action
May claimed that members of technologically advanced civilizations are most likely to suffer guilt connected with
Which of the following is a common element found among most existential thinkers?
For May, neurotic symptoms
From an existential perspective, as people realize that they are in charge of their own destiny, they experience the
May believed that _____ is our ultimate destiny.
May’s childhood was marked by
According to May, respecting another’s Dasein is a condition for living in
May considered eros the salvation of
is the world of nature and natural law and includes biological drives, such as hunger and sleep, and such natural phenomena as birth and death.
According to the concepts of existentialism, Mitwelt refers to
According to May, a person’s refusal to accept ontological guilt
According to the concepts of existentialism, _____ is the world of objects and things that would exist even if people had no awareness.
According to May, healthy people
To Allport, a broad, comprehensive theory is preferable to a narrow, specific theory even if it does not generate as many testable hypotheses. This is referred to as the _____ approach to theory building.
Research indicates that people who hold an intrinsic religious orientation tend to
To identify personal dispositions, Allport and Henry Odbert counted nearly _____ personally descriptive words in the 1925 edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary, about a fourth of which described personality characteristics.
Which of the following statements is true of Gordon Allport’s concept of functional autonomy?
The Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) assumes both _____ and _____ orientation toward religion.
Allport criticized older theories of personality for
According to Gordon Allport, the motives of a mature individual would be
According to Gordon Allport, psychologically mature people are characterized by
According to Gordon Allport, which of the following criteria for the mature personality refers to mature people continually seeking to identify with and participate in events outside themselves?
“The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought” is Allport’s definition of
Allport’s theory of personality is based mostly on
Perseverative functional autonomy is
Allport’s comprehensive definition of personality suggests that human beings are
Allport contended that adult motives are
To Allport, the most important structures of personality are those that permit the description of a person in terms of individual characteristics, and he called these individual characteristics
According to Allport, which of the following groups of people has the highest capacity of making a free choice?
Gordon Allport defined _____ as any acquired system of motivation in which the tensions involved are not of the same kind as the antecedent tensions from which the acquired system developed.