ABRAHAM LAWS OF HUMANISM

subjective experiences and free will.

, Abraham Maslow

approached the study of personality psychology by

focusing on

self-actualization

-a state of fulfillment in which a person is

achieving at his or her highest level of capability.

he is well known for his hierarchy of needs in which he proposes that human beings have certainneeds in common and that these needs must

be met in a certain order.

true

The

highest need for self-actualization represents the

achievement of our fullest potential, and those individuals

who finally achieved self-actualization were said to

represent optimal psychological health and functioning. True or false

true

Maslow viewed self-actualizers as the supreme achievers

in the human race. true or false

True

lower level need must be satified firts before you are being motivated by the higher needs.True or False

Self actualization

achievings ones full one potential,including creativity and acivities

Esteem Needs

prestige ans feeling of accomplishment

Belonginess and love needs

intimate relationship and friends

safety needs

security and safety

psychological needs

food,water,warmth and rest

Carl Rogers

proposed the person-centered theory and the founder of the client-centered therapy, he also developed an important

theory personality that underscores his approach to

therapy

true

Rogers carefully crafted his person-centered theory of

personality to meet his own demands for a structural

model that could explain and predict outcomes of client

centered therapy. True or false

formative tendency, and actualizuing tendency

Person-centered theory rests on two basic assumptions:

Formative tendency

which states that all matter,

both organic and inorganic, tends to evolve from simpler

to more complex forms

actualizing tendency

which suggests that all living things, including humans,

tend to move toward completion, or fulfillment of

potentials.

True

However, in order for people (or plants and

animals) to become actualized, certain identifiable

conditions must be present. For a person, these conditions

include a relationship with another person who is genuine,

or congruent, and who demonstrates complete acceptance

and empathy for that person.True or false

False

A sense of self or personal identity begins to emerge

during Adolescence, and, once established, it allows a person

to strive toward self-actualization, which is a subsystem

of the actualization tendency and refers to the tendency to

actualize the self as perceived in awareness.True or false

Self concept and Ideal Self

two subsystem of self

self-concept

which

includes all those aspects of one's identity that are

perceived in awareness, our true self, or how we percieve our self

ideal self

our view of our self as we would like to be or aspire to be

True

formed, the self-concept tends to resist change, and gaps

between it and the ideal self-result in incongruence and

various levels of psychopathology. True of false

false

People are aware of both their self-concept. and their ideal

self.Awareness must be accurate or at a high level.true or false

True

Any experience not consistent with the self-concept-even

positive experiences-will be distorted or denied. True or False

maintenance and enhancement

Carl rogers 2 basic human needs

Maintenance needs

in car rogers theory, these basic needs include those for food, air, and

safety, but they also include our tendency to resist change

and to maintain our self-concept as it is

Enhancement

needs

according to rogers human basic needs, thi type include needs to grow and to realize one's full

human potential.

condition of incongruence

this is something that you experience when your are constantly showerde by positive regards, that is to be loved and care resulting in the denial or rejection of organismic needs in favor of the needs to be loved

self-regard

nied or distorted in favor of needs

to be loved or accepted. As a result of experiences with

positive regard, people develop the need for ————

which they acquire only after they perceive that someone

else cares for them and values them

True

Once established, however, self-regard becomes

autonomous and no longer dependent on another's

continuous positive evaluation. True or false

Person-centered theory

emphasizes the inherent capacity of individuals to grow and heal within a therapeutic environment

Conditions of Worth

the internalized standards or rules an individual believes they must meet to be loved and accepted by significant others

Distortion and Denial

The greater the incongruence between self concept and

the organismic experience, the more vulnerable that

person becomes Anxiety exists whenever the person

becomes dimly aware of the discrepancy between

organismic experience and self-concept, whereas threat is

experienced whenever the person becomes more clearly

aware of this incongruence. To prevent incongruence,

people react with defensiveness, typically in the forms of