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Perspectives on Personality
CHAPTER 11 - CARVER/SCHEIER
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
04/29/2015

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Acutual Self
Definition
Your self as you presently view it.
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Actualizaation
Definition
The tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism.
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Clarification of feelings
Definition
The procedure in which a therapist restates a client's expressed organism.
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Client-centered or Person-centered therapy
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A type of therapy that removes conditions of worth and has clients examine their feelinds and take personal responsibility for their improvement.
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Conditional Positive Regard
Definition
Affection that's given only under certain conditions.
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Condition Self-regard
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Self-acceptance that's given only under certain conditions.
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Conditions of Worth
Definition
Contingencies placed on positive regard.
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Congruence
Definition
An integration within the self and a coherence between your self and your experiences.
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Content Analysis
Definition
The grouping and counting of various categories of statements in an interview.
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Contingent Self-worth
Definition
Self-acceptance that's based on performance in some domain of life.
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Dasein
Definition
"Being-in-the-world" the totality of your autonomous personal existence.
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Deficiency-based Motives
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Motives reflecting a lack within the person that needs to be filled.
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Existential Guilt
Definition
A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill all of your possibilities.
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Existential Psychology
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The view that people are responsible for investing their lives with meaning.
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Flow
Definition
The experience of being immersed completely in an activity.
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Fully Functioning Person
Definition
A person who's open to life's experiences and who is self-actualizing.
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Growth-based Motives
Definition
Motives reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate yourself.
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Humanistic Psychology
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A branch of psychology emphazing the universal capacity for personal growth.
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Ideal Self
Definition
Your perception of how you'd like to be.
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Organismic Valuing Process
Definition
The internal signal that indicates whether self-actualizationis occurring.
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Peak Experience
Definition
A subjective experience of intense self-actualization.
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Person-centered Therapy
Definition
A type of therapy that removes conditions of worth and has clients examine their feelings and take personal responsibility for their improvement.
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Phenomenological
Definition
A view emphasizes the importance of your own personal experiences.
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Positive Regard
Definition
Acceptance and affection.
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Q-sort
Definition
An assessment technique in which you sort descriptions according to how much they apply to you.
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Reactance
Definition
A motive to regain or reassert a freedom that's been threatened.
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Restatement of content
Definition
A procedure in whcih a therapist rephrases the ideas expressed by a client.
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Self-actualization
Definition
A process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self.
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Self-concordance
Definition
Pursuing goals that are consistent with your core values.
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Self-determination
Definition
Deciding for yourself what to do.
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Self-handicapping
Definition
Creating situations that make it hard to succeed, thus enabling avoidance of self-blame for failure.
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Steretype Threat
Definition
Having a negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudged.
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Transcendent Self-actualizers
Definition
People whose actualization goes beyond the self to become more universal.
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Unconditional Positive Regard
Definition
Acceptance and affection with "no strings attached".
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