PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unconditional Positive Regard, Carl Jung, Personal Unconscious
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Alfred adler insisted that humans are social beings who are motivated by social. Carl jung developed analytic psychology interest (the desire to advance the welfare of others) Humans not only posses a personal unconscious of life experiences, but a collective unconscious of memories accumulated throughout the history of humanity. Memories are represented by archetypes, inherited tendencies to interpret experience in certain ways. Object relations the images or mental representations that people form of themselves and other people as a result of early experience with caregivers. Self-actualization the total realization of one"s human potential. Self an organized, consistent set of perceptions of and beliefs about oneself. Must have self-consistency (absence of conflict among self-perceptions) and congruency (consistency between self-perceptions and experiences) to maintain self-concept. Experiences that are inconsistent with self-concept evokes threat and anxiety. People are born with a need for positive regard (acceptance, sympathy, and love) Unconditional positive regard communicated attitude of total and unconditional acceptance of another person.
