PSYB30H3 Lecture 8: Emotion and Personality (Includes Lec 07 cont'd slides and Lec 8)
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Rogers" contributions: focused on ways to foster and attain self-actualization, fully functioning person, person who is en route toward self-actualization, all children are born with a need for positive regard. Characteristics of a fully functioning person: 1. They strive to experience life to its fullest and are willing to take some risks: 2. These people live in the present: 3. These folks trust their own feelings and instincts. They aren"t held back by old standards or concern for what others might think: 4. These folks are less concerned with social conventions. The emphasis is that love is given conditionally (with a string attached). The evaluation of rogers" theory: critics see rogers"s positive stance as a na ve view of all humans, rogers techniques may not generalize across cultures, or to persons unaccustomed to verbal self-expression. Psyb30: rogers" universal need for self-regard has been challenged due to cultural variants on self-criticism and self-enhancement.
