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Personalities Final
Personalities Final Study Guide
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
05/04/2009

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Term
actualizing tendency
Definition
an innate need to survive, grow, and enhance ourselves
Term
natural organismic valuing system
Definition

evaluation system called by Rogers

 

experiences in accord to the actualizing tendency are satisfying to the individual, not in accord are unsatisfying and a source of distress for the individual

 

 

allows the person to coordinate its experiences with its tendency toward self-actualization

Term
imposed valuing system
Definition
the person used an imposed valuing system to evaluate their experiences. This results in defensiveness, distress and fear
Term
Rogerian Concept of Maladjustment
Definition
Incongruence -> Anxiety -> Psychological Defenses -> Maladjustment
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Incongruence
Definition
self-concept and experiences in the world are not the same
Term
Anxiety
Definition
Result of lowered self-worth
Term
Psychological Defenses
Definition
Employed by the individual to deal with anxiety.
Term
Maladjustment
Definition

living a life centered around denial and distortion makes the individual vulnerable to maladjustment

 

*not taking responsibilities for who you are

Term

self -actualization ( basic motivation of human beings)

 

 

 

 

 

Maslow

Definition

-the need to develop and utilize one's talent, ability and potential to their fullest extent.

- innate

-basic quality of being human

-ultimate drive state

Term
Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
Definition

Basicmotives (Deficiency motives)

1. Physiological needs

2. Safety needs

3. Belongingness and love needs

4. esteem needs

Metamotives (Growth motives)

1. Aesthetic/cognitive needs

2. self-actualization

 

*failure to satisfy basic needs - psychopathology

Term
eupsychia
Definition
utopian society that would stimulate and challenge all individuals toward self-actualization
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synergy
Definition
energy created by eupsychia that owuld cause all people to work together constructively/cooperatively
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peek experiences
Definition
moments when individuals are free of deficiency needs - feel profound and illuminated
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eupsychian management
Definition
application of maslow's principles to business/industry/institutional settings.
Term
human potential centers
Definition
Ashrams (places for healthy people to become healthier)
Term
Power
Definition

the ability to establish and controla n interpersonal communication process.

 

* Power is situational and needs to be constantly evaluated

 

no power = no control

Term
Positional Power
Definition

The authority that goes with the position.

Positional power is difficult to take away, but can easily be subverted.

 

 

*relience on positional power is not enough to control an interpersonal process

Term
Expertise
Definition

The posession of information of skills that others need or want.

 

Expertise is "limited" and "temporal"

Term
Personal Power
Definition

The use of personal characteristics and qualities to control situations

 

can be intellectual, verbal, and/or physical.

 

People must assert themselves to get personal power (risky)

 

it is given and is very tentative and easily taken away.

 

 

least stable of the 3 and hardest to maintain

Term
interaction of power bases
Definition

personal power enhances positional power and expertise.

if you have no power in a relationship, you can not control communication or the process.

 

 

Term
peer groups
Definition

individuals in peers groups have no title authority or recognized expertise

must rely on personal power if they have any "responsibility" for the outcome of an interpersonal process.

this involves risk and enormous energy.

typically fail, lose confidence in themself, avoid future responsibilities, and develop negative self-concepts

Term
implications for interpersonal communication
Definition

effective communicators must learn to observe, understand, create, and utilize power in interpersonal relationships.

 

intention to establish and maintain the type of communication appropriate for that relationship

Term
Existentialism
Definition
major influences  - attention placed upon suppositions underlying therapy, rather than the development of a therapy system/set of techniques.
Term
philosophical view of man
Definition

man has the capacity for being aware of himself; of what he is doing, and of what is happening to him

 

 

living up to your potential

Term
ideographic
Definition
emphasis on understand man as an individual (understand just you)
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nomethetic
Definition

identifying the ways in which men are alike except for initial assumptions about the nature of man

(you in terms of other people)

Term
existential therapy
Definition
an encounter between two people where they both benefit
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