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GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 36

Personality · Theories of Personality: Psychoanalytic, behaviourist, social, cognitive, humanism, trait and type theories · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Being treated with warmth and consideration by others only when one behaves as expected, is called as __________________________________________.

  1. openness to experience
  2. conditional positive regard
  3. unconditional positive regard
  4. zone of proximal development

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Correct answer: (B) conditional positive regard

Explanation

In Rogers's theory, regard that depends on behaving in the expected ways is conditional positive regard.