As a Client Becomes More Fully Functioning During the Course

question 59

Multiple Choice

As a client becomes more fully functioning during the course of several psychotherapy sessions, we would expect the correlation between his or her real and ideal selves to

• A) decrease.
• B) stay the same.
• C) increase.
• D) do any of the above, for the correlation is unrelated to progress in therapy.

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Definitions:

Synthesizing Process

The act of combining ideas, information, or objects into a coherent whole.

Stroboscopic Motion

The visual perception of movement created by a rapid succession of static images, as in a zoetrope or a movie.

Phi Phenomenon

The optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed in rapid succession.

Autokinetic Illusion

A visual phenomenon where a stationary point of light in a dark environment appears to move due to small involuntary eye movements.