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PSY 370 Ch. 11 May: Existential Psychology

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May believed that will
all of the above.
May called _____ the freedom to act on the choices one makes.
existential freedom
For May, the most obvious avenue of nonbeing is
death.
For May, care is the source of
both love and will.
According to May, _____ are the malaise of our time.
apathy and emptiness
May believed that _____ is our ultimate density.
death
May believed that we experience _____ when we become aware that our existence or some value identified with it may be destroyed.
anxiety
According to May, _____ is an intimate but nonsexual friendship between two people.
philia
For May, _____ is an altruistic kind of love.
agape
_____ anxiety "is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted constructively on a conscious level", according to May.
Normal
May was critical of
All the above are correct.
May's approach to understanding people is based primarily on his
clinical experience.
Research on terror management theory suggests that reminding people of their own death--that is, making mortality salient--tends to
increase their need to preserve their worldview.
According to May, healthy people
Only a and b are correct.
May said that eros
is the wish to establish a lasting union.
According to May, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, promiscuous sexual behavior, and other compulsive behavior can be manifestations of
nonbeing.
Existentialists believe that most people in modern societies experience alienation due to a separation of
self from the world.
______ anxiety "is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted constructively on a conscious level", according to May.
Normal
According to May, freedom comes from understanding our
destiny.
May suggested that freedom and destiny are
a normal paradox of life.
May's concept of humanity includes a belief that people are
a and b
According to May, a person's refusal to accept ontological guilt
leads to neurotic or morbid guilt.
According to May, respecting another's Dasein is a condition for living in
Mitwelt.
May believed that healthy people
unite love and will.
For May, the source of humanity's most intense pleasure and its most pervasive anxiety is
sex
According to May, in North American society, sex is frequently confused with
eros.
May believed that within the boundaries of our destiny,
we have the power to choose.
Basically, existentialists believe that theories
render individuals into objects.
May claimed that, to the extent that anxiety and guilt arise from our being-in-the-world, they are
ontological.
______ is the psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one, according to May.
Eros
According to May, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, promiscuous sexual behavior, and other compulsive behaviors can be manifestations of
nonbeing.
For May, the purpose of therapy is to
set patients free to make their own choices.
According to May, ______ is the structure that gives meaning to our experience and allows us to make decisions about the future
intentionality
People's feelings of self-isolation and alienation from the world are seen in their
All the above are correct.
For May, ______ is an altruistic kind of love.
agape
For May, freedom often leads to
increased normal anxiety.
May believed that we experience ______ when we become aware that our existence or some value identified with it may be destroyed.
anxiety
For May, neurotic symptoms
preserve one's Dasein.
May contended that Western civilization
has an urgent need for myths.
May believed that neurotic anxiety
All the above are correct.
Existentialists adopt a ______ approach to understanding humanity.
phenomenological
Freud's psychoanalytic theory, with its emphasis on biological drives and instincts,
Umwelt.
According to May, Eigenwelt refers to our relationship to
our self.
May considered eros the salvation of
sex.
May identified sex, eros, philia, and agape as the
forms of love.
According to May, psychologically disturbed individuals deny their
destiny.
Unlike Carl Rogers, Rollo May was likely to
offer interpretations to a patient or client.
According to May, ______ is an intimate but nonsexual friendship between two people.
philia
May believed that healthy adult relationships are based on
All the above are correct.
For May, the source of humanity's most intense pleasure and its most pervasive anxiety
sex.
May claimed that members of technologically advanced civilizations are most likely to suffer guilt connected with
Umwelt.
For May, "the endeavor to understand [people] by cutting below the cleavage between subject and object" defines
existentialism.
From an existential perspective, people acquire freedom of action
Only a and b are correct.
From an existential perspective, as people realize that they are in charge of their own destiny, they experience the
b and c
For May, ______ is an altruistic kind of love
agape
For May, the concept of intentionality helps bridge the gap between
subject and object.
May believed that ______ is our ultimate destiny.
death
Rollo May was the foremost spokesperson for the ______ approach to psychology in the United States
existential
May called ______ "the capacity to organize one's self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place".
will
May held that Umwelt includes the world of
objects and things.
Kierkegaard emphasized an equilibrium between
freedom and responsibility.
For May, freedom of being is synonymous with
essential freedom.
May saw psychopathology as a lack of
communicativeness.
According to May, ontological guilt is experienced
by most people in one form or another.
May believed that the story of ______ contains the basic elements of an existential crisis: birth, exile, assertion of independence, search for identity, and death.
Oedipus
May called ______ the freedom to act on the choices one makes.
existential freedom
Rollo May was the foremost spokesperson for the ______ approach to psychology in the United States.
existential
Modern existential psychology has roots in the writings of
Soren Kierkegaard.
May recognized three forms of ontological guilt, each of which corresponds to the three
modes of Dasein.
"A delight in the presence of the other person and an affirmation of his value and development as much as one's own" is May's definition of
love.
May's childhood was marked by
parental arguments and family strife.
Research on terror management theory suggests that reminding people of their own death—that is, making mortality salient—tends to
increase their need to preserve their worldview.
For existentialists, studying people from an external view
violates both the people and their worlds.
Most existentialists believe that
existence takes precedence over essence.
May believed that communicationa
should transcend the immediate concrete situation and expand self-awareness.
May was influenced by Søren Kierkegaard's view of anxiety as a struggle against
nonbeing.
According to May, ______ are the malaise of our time.
apathy and emptiness
May said that neurotic anxiety is experienced when
our values are transformed into dogma.
For May, ontological guilt associated with Mitwelt arises from our
inability to accurately perceive the world of others.
According to May, ontological guilt is experienced
by most people in one form or another
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