Rogers's work in the field of psychology was influenced by his _____ in early childhood.
a. desire to improve his self-concept
b. popularity in school
c. solitude and an insignificant social life
d. belief that his parents favored him over his siblings
Question 2Rogers's childhood experiences involved:
a. suppression of all displays of emotion.
b. sexual conflicts.
c. living by his own values at an early age.
d. a hatred toward his father.
Question 3Rogers's personality was greatly shaped by his childhood experience of:
a. being greatly influenced by his parents' liberal religious views.
b. living by his parents' view of the world rather than his own.
c. relishing a position of power as an only child in the family.
d. being surrounded by friends at school and play.
Question 4According to Rogers, the ultimate goal in life is:
a. to become a fully functioning person by actualizing the self.
b. to be able to successfully distinguish between the self and others.
c. to be able to shift interest from the physical and material to the spiritual, philosophical, and intuitive.
d. to achieve life's goals and establish a secure, successful place in the world.
Question 5Rogers believed that people are rational beings ruled by:
a. their past events.
b. a conscious perception of themselves and their experiential world.
c. an unconscious psychic energy that can be channeled externally, toward the outside world, or internally, toward the self.
d. physiological factors.
Question 6The approach to psychotherapy used by Carl Rogers came to be known as person-centered therapy because:
a. therapists mostly spend time listening to patients talk about their lives in this approach.
c. it is the person himself and not the therapist who directs the change and improvement in personality.
b. it frequently involves looking at a person's early childhood experiences in order to discover how these events might have shaped the person.
d. the therapist persuades a person to change his or her thought patterns through multiple sessions in this approach.
Question 7Rogers's personality theory is rooted in:
a. Freud's theories.
c. experimental psychology.
b. Jung's theories.
d. humanistic psychology.
Question 8Person-centered therapy, a popular approach to psychotherapy originated by Carl Rogers, was initially known as:
a. counselor-centered therapy.
c. conditional therapy.
b. non-directive therapy.
d. functional therapy.
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