Mondriaan Aura College

Behavioral Science Department

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write on the space between each number the letter of the best answer for each of the following items.
Avoid having erasures.
1. Most existentialists would argue that _ takes precedence over _.
a. essence,existence
b. equivalence,equivocacy
c. equivocacy,equivalence
d. existence,essence
2. According to Rogers, this includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that are perceived
in awareness.
a. Self-esteem
b. Self-concept
c. Organismic self
d. Ideal self
3. The basic unity of person and environment is expressed in the German word
a. Dasein
b. Umwelt
c. Mitwelt
d. Eigenwelt
4. A woman who has a receptive personality, always trying to please and adapt to the wants and needs of others,
will be described by an existential theorist as one whose _ is constricted.
a. Dasein
b. Umwelt
c. Mitwelt
d. Eigenwelt
5. All behavior a person engages in that will eventually lead to that person’s completion and fulfilment of
potentials is what Rogers called a person’s
a. Self-actualizing tendency
b. Formative tendency
c. Completion tendency
d. Actualizing tendency
6. “Chloe, we are so proud of you. You’re as intelligent as your older sister. Next time, you’ll make it on top
instead of second!”
a. Incongruence
b. Conditions of Worth
c. Defensiveness
d. Unconditional Positive Regard
7. According to May, the feeling that people have when they realize that they will one day die or become nonbeing
is called _.
a. Anxiety
b. Guilt
c. Fear
d. Destiny
8. Maslow’s physiological need belongs to Roger’s
a. Maintenance needs
b. Enhancement needs
c. Physiological needs
d. Being needs
9. Without this, the self-concept and the ideal self would not exist.
a. Intentionality
b. Ego
c. Awareness
d. Symbolic experience
10. A man who killed his wife and the person she was having an affair with was told by his Rogerian therapist, “I
do not care about what you have done. You will be accepted here no matter who you are.” The therapist is
displaying which of the following concepts?
a. Empathy
b. Genuineness
c. Congruence
d. Unconditional positive regard
11. This is the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal
may take place.
a. Goal
b. Decision
c. Will
d. Love
12. Mika considers herself a kind and friendly person. However, she is distressed because she harbors deep
resentment towards her colleague at work. Using person-centered approach, which of the following can be said of
Mika?
a. Mika is a fake person and thus needs to self-actualize.
b. This hatred is brought about by her unconscious drive for achievement.
c. The identical nature of Mika’s actualizing tendency is unhealthy and causes distress.
d. There is a discrepancy between the organism and the self-concept, causing distress.
13. Rogerian therapy can be viewed in terms of the following except:
a. Process
b. Outcomes
c. Conditions
d. Strength
14. When a therapist builds rapport with a client by showing that she is trying to understand the client’s
situation, she is making use of _.
a. Unconditional positive regard
b. Genuineness
c. Empathy
d. Support
15. The kind of guilt coming from the Umwelt, a concept similar to Fromm’s notion of the human dilemma.
a. Separation guilt
b. Nonbeing guilt
c. Existential guilt
d. Crisis
16. A person with addiction who is into the first stages of therapy was successfully able to go one week without
using the drugs she is addicted to. Her therapist told her, “Good job! You know, not many of my clients have
been able to do this for one whole week without slipping.” In Rogerian perspective, the client, who has a very
low self-esteem and an extremely negative self-concep, is likely to think:
a. “This therapist can be trusted.”
b. “The therapist doesn’t mean it and is just saying that so I’ll continue with therapy.”
c. “I think the therapist is nice. I’ll continue the therapy to make her happy.”
d. “I want to leave. Now!”
17. According to May, the structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people tomake decisions about the
future is called
a. Will
b. Intentionality
c. Awareness
d. Destiny
18. Which of the following is true about Existential Psychology?
a. The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future is
called will.
b. Intentionality is the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain goal may take place in
a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place.
c. Care is the source of both love and will.
d. Ontological guilt refers to both umwelt and mitwelt but not eigenwelt.
19. _ is the freedom of action and _ is the freedom of being.
a. Essential, existential
b. Experiential, essential
c. Existential, essential
d. Essential, experiential
20. Rogers believed that there is a tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to
more complex forms.
a. Self-actualizing tendency
b. Formative tendency
c. Completion tendency
d. Actualizing tendency
21. These needs, according to Rogers, are expressed in a variety of forms, including curiosity, playfulness, self-
exploration, friendship, and confidence that one can achieve psychological
growth.
a. Actualizing needs
b. Formative needs
c. Maintenance needs
d. Enhancement needs
22. According to May, healthy individuals:
a. Give out all forms of love to everyone.
b. Are able to assume their freedom and face their destiny.
c. Do not experience any form of anxiety.
d. Are individuals who conquer the shadow.
23. May has a similar concept with Jung in terms of archetypal patterns in human experience which he called:
a. Myths
b. Wishes
c. Dreams
d. Scripts
24. Guilt from the _ is reminiscent of Maslow’s concept of the Jonah complex, or the fear of being or doing one’s
best.
a. Umwelt
b. Mitwelt
c. Eigenwelt
d. Dasein
25. This is altruistic love. It is a kind of spiritual love that carries with it the risk of playing God.
a. Eros
b. Philia
c. Agape
d. Sex
26. The following is TRUE about Rogerian theory, except:
a. External evaluations, whether positive or negative, do not foster psychological health but, rather, prevent
us from being completely open to our own experiences.
b. Positive regard is a prerequisite for positive self-regard.
c. If the conditions of therapist congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic listening are present
in a client-counselor relationship, then the process of therapy will transpire.
d. Positive self-regard takes precedence over positive regard from others.
27. Camille and Jonah are long-term buddies. Although Camille does not know it, Jonah likes her very much and sees
her as more than a friend. Jonah intends to propose to Camille someday if he sums up the courage to do so. On
the other hand, Camille sees Jonah only as a friend, In her mind, Jonah is a really good friend and has no
intentions of being in a relationship with him. In relation to May’s theory, which of the following is true in
terms of forms of love?
a. Camille is showing agape while Jonah just wants the form of love called sex.
b. Jonah is showing eros while Camille is exhibiting philia.
c. Camille wants eros, Jonah is exhibiting agape.
d. Jonah is showing the form of love called philia while Camille exhibits sex.
28. Maslow’s higher level needs are similar to Roger’s concept of:
a. Maintenance needs
b. Esteem needs
c. Actualization needs
d. Enhancement needs
29. According to May, this is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted
constructively on the conscious level.
a. Normal Autism
b. Defensiveness
c. Normal Anxiety
d. Neurosis
30. Rogers believed that people are _ when they are unaware of the discrepancy between
their organismic self and their significant experience.
a. Defensive
b. Lost
c. Vulnerable
d. Anxious
31. The following are characteristics a Rogerian therapist must possess, except:
a. Congruence
b. Positive Self-Regard
c. Empathy
d. Unconditional Positive Regard
32. This is the result of understanding our destiny.
a. Destiny
b. Anxiety
c. Dasein
d. Freedom
33. “Who am I? Is life worth living?”
a. Existence takes precedence over essence.
b. Existentialism opposes the split between subject and object.
c. Existentialists hold that ultimately each of us is responsible for who we
are and what we become.
d. People search for some meaning to their lives.
34. This arises when people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans, or
remain oblivious to their dependence on the natural world.
a. Awareness
b. Anxiety
c. Nonbeing
d. Guilt
35. It is our destination, our terminus, our goal.
a. Freedom
b. Myth
c. Existence
d. Destiny
PREPARED BY: Christelle Mae S. Gangcuangco, RPm