PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unconditional Positive Regard, Ipsative, Social Desirability Bias
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Rogers believed that humans are basically good. He argued that we have an innate drive to reach an optimal sense of ourselves & satisfaction with our lives. 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. Many parents and significant others place conditions of worth on when one will receive positive regard-conditional positive regard. Rogers argues that most of us grow up in an atmosphere where we are given love & support as long as we behave the way we are expected to. This is what he calls conditional positive regard. The emphasis is that love is given conditionally (with a string attached). Rogers argued that in these cases, parents withhold their love from us. As a result of this, children learn to abandon their true feelings, wishes, & desires, for those of their parents.
