Question 1

Explain what Rogers meant by the actualizing tendency.

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The actualizing tendency, as described b...

Question 2

As a client makes progress in therapy, what happens?

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A)   The client expresses more subjective experience.
B)   The client focuses increasingly on the present.
C)   The client more freely experiences and expresses emotions.
D)   all of the above

Question 3

"Satellite relationships" are

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A)   relationships with people other than the spouse or primary partner, sometimes involving sexual intimacy.
B)   consulting relationships with another therapist, to get a second opinion.
C)   unhealthy dependent relationships among family members.
D)   a primary example of Rogers's influence on organizational development.

Question 4

Rogers called his therapeutic method

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A)   revised psychoanalysis.
B)   client-centered therapy.
C)   individualized therapy.
D)   self-actualization therapy.

Question 5

Which of the following was not one of the characteristics of a fully functioning person listed by Rogers?

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A)   existential living
B)   openness to experience
C)   social interest
D)   creativity

Question 6

Explain Rogers's concept of congruence and incongruence (related to a person's sense of self). Give a
hypothetical example to illustrate your point.

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Carl Rogers, a prominent humanistic psyc...

Question 7

Rogers suggested that people not trust their inner experience too much, but rather evaluate it
rationally.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What does Rogers recommend that parents provide for their children?

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A)   conditions of worth
B)   conditional positive regard
C)   unconditional positive regard
D)   a good education

Question 9

Rogers's concept of congruence means that

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A)   the therapist is psychologically similar to the client.
B)   the therapist acts as he or she genuinely feels toward the client.
C)   the therapist believes that the client has been properly diagnosed.
D)   the client and the therapist are well matched for one another.

Question 10

Rogers described fully functioning people as having the experience of being able to make choices.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The best guide to healthy growth, according to Rogers, is

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A)   a professional psychotherapist.
B)   a religious philosophy of life.
C)   the organismic valuing process.
D)   careful reasoning.

Question 12

A desirable outcome of psychotherapy, according to Rogers, is

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A)   control over feelings.
B)   clear ideas about right and wrong.
C)   more thought about the future.
D)   the experience of having choices.

Question 13

Unconditional positive regard means loving someone __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   because you yourself feel loved
B)   regardless of that person's behavior
C)   unwisely
D)   without considering the consequences

Question 14

Rogers recommended that therapists should allow clients to accurately know how they (the therapists)
feel toward them, in most cases.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Rogers criticized parents for

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A)   being overly permissive.
B)   fighting in front of their children.
C)   not loving their children enough.
D)   making their love depend on their children's good behavior.

Question 16

Rogers's concept of unconditional positive regard refers to

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A)   parental neglect.
B)   the client's acceptance of the therapist's interpretations.
C)   the therapist's acceptance and positive valuing of the client, which is not dependent on particular "good" behaviors.
D)   the acceptance of their parents that clients develop during the course of therapy.

Question 17

As a client makes progress in therapy, what happens?

Accepted Answer

A)   The client becomes increasingly objective in describing experience.
B)   The client focuses increasingly on the future.
C)   The client more freely experiences and expresses emotions.
D)   all of the above

Question 18

Rogers thought that education could be improved by

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A)   trusting students to choose their own directions.
B)   more carefully applying learning principles.
C)   using team teachers.
D)   providing more incentives for learning.

Question 19

Dennis believes, wholeheartedly, that moving to Colorado is right for him, though he cannot explain why and though others disagree. The sense within him that guides him is called the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   ego
B)   actualizing process
C)   organismic valuing process
D)   transference

Question 20

Rogers focused on __________ in therapy.

Accepted Answer

A)   the client's experience
B)   insight
C)   diagnosis
D)   transference

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