PSYC 4061- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 82 pages long!)
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Human nature is described as neither good or bad from the client-centered perspective, rogers believes that it is in our evolution to be striving to improve ourselves but that circumstances can sometimes prevent us from doing so. All living organisms are dynamic processes motivated by the inherent tendency to maintain and enhance themselves. This actualizing tendency, an axiom in client-centered theory functions continually, directionally, and holistically throughout all subsystems of the organism (page 96). Even when people make self-destructive choices, the actualizing tendency is hypothesized to function in a constant and directional manner but may be distorted by environmental factors. Theoretically if goodness of fit between the person and the environment were perfect, the person would develop toward. Roger"s view of the fully functioning person increasingly open to new experience, capable of living in the present moment, and trusting her own experiencing process as a guide for living (page 96). Every organism possesses an inherent organismic valuing process.
