AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The main difference between both the eminent psychologists’ Rogers and Abraham Samuel Maslow is in their humanistic theories of self-actualization. Abraham Samuel Maslow recognizes the functioning of a person in one’s own self, but Rogers highlights the need for the environment. What is this?

Detailed explanation-2: -Rogers suggested that the fully functioning person is one who has embraced “existential living."3 In other words, they are able to live fully in the moment. They experience a sense of inner freedom and embrace creativity, excitement, and challenge.

Detailed explanation-3: -Carl Rogers’ views on ideal self vs real self. Rogers divided the self into two categories; ideal and real self. The ideal self is the person you would like to be and the real self is what you really are. In the real world, a person’s ideal self is not consistent with what happens in life with a person.