PSYC 31a Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Unconditional Positive Regard, Personal Construct Theory, Christian Fundamentalism
6 Apr 2017
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Emphasize human capacity for goodness, creativity, and freedom. Not deterministic, humans seen as spiritual and rational, purposeful and autonomous creatures. Phenomenological in the present, the here and now. Phenomenal field total sum of experiences (everything potentially available to consciousness at any given moment) Emerged from study of troubled personalities and his experience doing careful and exacting psychotherapy studies. Close family ties, upper middle class family. Father an engineer, mother college graduate (rare) and a fundamentalist. Masters of the art of social control. Value of hard work emphasized and christian faith (prayer and bible reading, no drinking, smoking or card playing) Carl was precocious and absent-minded in childhood, and interested in agriculture in adolescence. No extracurricular activities the family was his social life. Loved nature and adopted scientific methods to study nature. Went to the university of wisconsin majoring in agriculture and attended the ymca worship group (rogerian-like)
