PCN 107 FINAL EXAM REVIEW: REALITY THERAPY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Dr W. Glasser's basic needs - Answers - love and belonging, power, fun, survival,
freedom
William Glasser (theory, birth year, why he created it) - Answers - - reality therapy
- 1925
- created in response to dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis
Robert Wubbolding (job) - Answers - head of center for reality therapy
Love and Belonging (importance, personalities unsuitable for long term relationships
and why) - Answers - - Glasser's most important need
- 2 personalities not suited for long term relationships:
#1 sociopath: prioritize power and freedom and lack empathy response
#2 workless individual: low needs for survival and amplified need for power. lack energy
to fulfill need for power
Quality world (world of what, when it starts, need associated with it, relation to
consciousness and choice and exception) - Answers - - world of wants
- starts at birth
- need fulfilling objects or people
- most objects in the quality world are put there by conscious choice
- exception is parents/ caregivers
Total behavior (what it accentuates, 4 components) - Answers - - accentuates the
multidimensional nature of human behavior
- 4 components:
#1 acting
#2 feeling
#3 thinking
#4 physiological
Choice theory (beliefs about choice, on what basis, how many axioms) - Answers - - we
choose everything
- ideological basis
- 10 axioms
Dysfunction in RT (relation to choice, what results from that, what we choose instead
and its avoidance and function) - Answers - - bad choices
- we get lonely
- choose depression to deal with difficulty
- choose depression to avoid tougher alternatives
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Dr W. Glasser's basic needs - Answers - love and belonging, power, fun, survival,
freedom
William Glasser (theory, birth year, why he created it) - Answers - - reality therapy
- 1925
- created in response to dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis
Robert Wubbolding (job) - Answers - head of center for reality therapy
Love and Belonging (importance, personalities unsuitable for long term relationships
and why) - Answers - - Glasser's most important need
- 2 personalities not suited for long term relationships:
#1 sociopath: prioritize power and freedom and lack empathy response
#2 workless individual: low needs for survival and amplified need for power. lack energy
to fulfill need for power
Quality world (world of what, when it starts, need associated with it, relation to
consciousness and choice and exception) - Answers - - world of wants
- starts at birth
- need fulfilling objects or people
- most objects in the quality world are put there by conscious choice
- exception is parents/ caregivers
Total behavior (what it accentuates, 4 components) - Answers - - accentuates the
multidimensional nature of human behavior
- 4 components:
#1 acting
#2 feeling
#3 thinking
#4 physiological
Choice theory (beliefs about choice, on what basis, how many axioms) - Answers - - we
choose everything
- ideological basis
- 10 axioms
Dysfunction in RT (relation to choice, what results from that, what we choose instead
and its avoidance and function) - Answers - - bad choices
- we get lonely
- choose depression to deal with difficulty
- choose depression to avoid tougher alternatives
