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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by fulfillment

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something you can attain through extensive meditation or just by eating a [Girl meditating and turkey appears]

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ton of turkey.... alright well with which of the following

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statements would Carl Rogers agree and here are the potential answers...

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Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who [Man clutching a pen to Carl Rogers]

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believe that every person could achieve their goals wishes and desires in life

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and when they did so self actualization would take place in other words they

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would achieve their ideal self and if your ideal self sits fully clothed in

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the bathtub and eats ice cream out the carton well more power to you [Girl eating ice cream in bath tub]

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actually I can relate to that yeah so could the correct answer be A - people

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choose certain mates based on the ability of that mate to reproduce no

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Rodgers probably wouldn't agree with this one

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In his theory humans make choices to enhance their life experience and reach

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self-actualization choosing a mate based solely on reproductive ability might [Man and woman holding babies]

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lead to plenty of interesting things but probably not

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self-actualization so let's cross off A... would Carl Rogers agree with C - fame

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and glory drive confidence, while fame and glory while tempting to chase generally

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don't fulfill us or lead to the ideal self in fact chasing after fame and

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glory might lead us down the opposite path think Kardashians or any of the [Kim Kardashian appears]

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Real Housewives how many of those stars look like they've reached their ideal

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state of being yeah that's what we thought let's go ahead and get rid of C.

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What about D - sensation seekers have high arousal thresholds doesn't seem

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like a fit well arousal theory does not equal Carl Rogers psychology, totally

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different subject it's like the guy wearing Tapout shirts, yeah you can spot [People in the street and man with tapout shirt appears]

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it immediately and you know you want nothing to do with him...

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alright let's ditch D so maybe E - biology alone determine success

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well Rodgers believed that humans would flourish if they were given the right

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environment like a flower in good soil unfortunately being born with the best [Flower appears in the forest]

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biology doesn't mean you're going to be planted in the best soil ya dig? Anyway

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Rodgers believed that environment was hugely important to success not just

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biology so throw out E - That leaves us with B - people strive to be their best

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which motivates behavior Carl Rogers believed that people were always working [Lego figure pushing a golf ball]

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toward self-actualization or being the best they could be so it makes sense

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that he would support this statement and B is the correct answer when thinking

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about self-actualization just imagine a training montage in the sports movie [Person hitting punch bag]

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someone wants to be the best in the world and then five minutes later boom

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they are it's that easy everyone you know watch the Michael Phelps ad for [Man falls over in gym]

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underarmor....

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