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1

Rogers wanted to be a ______________________ after he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, but he switched to psychology when he went to Columbia.
2

Rogers’s system of therapy is called ______________________, and his theory of personality can be called person-centered.
3

The ______________________ tendency suggests that all matter tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.
4

The ______________________ tendency suggests that people tend to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.
5

____________________________ exists when an organism and the perceived self are in harmony.
6

To Rogers, the real self and the __________________ self are the same concept.
7

Rogers believed that each of us has an _____________________ self, which is a picture of our self as we would wish to be.
8

Discrepancies between the _________________________ and the organismic self result in incongruence.
9

____________________ refers to experiences inconsistent with the self concept that are perceived but not yet accepted into awareness.
10

People often deny or ____________________ both positive and negative experiences because these experiences threaten an established self-concept.
11

All of us, Rogers said, have a need for ________________________, which is a feeling of self-confidence and self-worth
12

We experience ______________________ of worth whenever a significant other accepts only our positive behaviors and traits.
13

The need for _______________________ would include the need for food, sleep, and the tendency to resist change.
14

The need for ________________________ includes the need to grow, to develop, and to become a more fully functioning person.
15

The first condition for therapeutic growth is that a _____________________ client comes into contact with a congruent therapist.
16

A _____________________ person is one whose organismic experiences are matched by an awareness of them and a willingness to honestly communicate them.
17

Unconditional ____________________________ exists when the therapist prizes the client regardless of the client’s behavior.
18

______________________ exists when therapists accurately sense the feeling of their clients and are able to communicate these perceptions so that the clients know that another person is on their wavelength.
19

According to Rogers, _____________________ living is the tendency to live in the moment.
20

The issue of ______________________ of human behavior was at the heart of the Rogers/Skinner debate.