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1
Carl Rogers's parents were teachers, and they encouraged him to become a teacher.
A)True
B)False
2
Rogers's theory of personality grew out of his experiences as a psychotherapist.
A)True
B)False
3
Rogers's approach to psychotherapy is most accurately called nondirective.
A)True
B)False
4
As a schoolboy, Rogers became interested in scientific farming, an interest that contributed to his later research abilities.
A)True
B)False
5
After receiving his PhD, Rogers spent more than 10 years in clinical practice, mostly isolated from the academic community, and this isolation helped him develop an approach to therapy that was unique.
A)True
B)False
6
According to Rogers, all livings organisms possess the actualizing tendency.
A)True
B)False
7
Once the self-concept is formed, change becomes difficult.
A)True
B)False
8
Self-actualization is a subsystem of the actualizing tendency.
A)True
B)False
9
In Rogerian theory, the actualizing tendency refers to the person's organismic or physiological experiences.
A)True
B)False
10
Rogers believed that healthy people adjust their organismic self in order to make it congruent with their ideal self.
A)True
B)False
11
Receiving praise or compliments can be threatening to a person's self-concept.
A)True
B)False
12
Maintenance needs include the need to resist change.
A)True
B)False
13
After people have established unconditional positive self-regard, they no longer depend on others for unconditional positive regard.
A)True
B)False
14
Rogers held that healthy people evaluate their experience from the viewpoint of significant others.
A)True
B)False
15
According to Rogers, people with low self-worth and who receive positive external evaluations will assimilate these evaluations into their self-concept and will thus grow toward psychological health
A)True
B)False
16
According to Rogers, a vulnerable person is unaware of the discrepancy between self and experience.
A)True
B)False
17
Rogers was more interested in building a theory than in conducting psychotherapy.
A)True
B)False
18
The three necessary conditions for therapeutic growth, Rogers believed, are counselor congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic listening.
A)True
B)False
19
Rogers believed that when client-centered therapy is successful, clients become their own therapists.
A)True
B)False
20
A strong criticism of Rogers's theory is that it has not produced any research.
A)True
B)False







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