the congruence between the self and the experience, which is what people feel and also how that
one views themselves
An example of this is, if one views themselves as a kind person who is
able to express empathy towards others but have an experience which that individual thinks they
were cold and unemphatic, they confront an incongruence between their sense of self and their
experience ( Cervone & Pervin, 2016).
Briefly summarize your thoughts on Roger’s major concepts of the self, self-actualization,
and unconditional positive regard.

Rendering to Rogers, ones’ self is an aspect of phenomenological experience.
The one aspect of
an individual’s experiences of the world which is one of the things that gives us our conscious
experience is that individuals experience of themselves or of “a self”.
He was able to recognize
two different aspects to one’s self which is the actual self and an ideal self.
Rogers had identified
that individual’s naturally thinking about not only themselves in the present but also their
potential selves in their future.
With this information, it generated an organized pattern of
perceptions not only of the individual’s current self but with the individual’s ideal self that they
would like to be.
With the ideal self that is the self-concept that the individual would most likely
to possess.
With this aspect of the ideal self, the perceptions and meanings that are potentially
are relevant to the self and that are valued highly with the individual.
Rogers documented that


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