PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Unconditional Positive Regard, Explicit Knowledge, Active Listening
28 Sep 2020
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Emphasized a positive, optimistic view of human nature that highlights people"s inherent goodness and their potential for personal growth. People have an innate desire for self-actualization. Self-actualization: the human motive toward realizing our inner potential. A humanistic therapy, developed by carl rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate the client"s growth. Views personality in terms of how the person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life and behaves in response to them. Dimensions people use in making sense of their experiences. Person-situation controversy the question of whether behavior is caused more by personality or by situation factors. Are relatively stable dispositions that lead one to behave in a particular and consistent way. Language holds the entirety of these traits. View of personality that focuses on the external contingencies that contributed to the development of a person.
