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.

As a client becomes more fully functioning, the gap between their real self (how they actually see themselves) and their ideal self (how they wish to be) is expected to decrease. This means that their real and ideal selves become more similar, indicating an increase in the correlation between the two. This is a sign of progress in therapy, as it suggests the client is moving closer to their ideal self-concept.