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28 Cards in this Set
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What are the 7 characteristics of an in-group?
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1.See yourself and group as virtuous and superior
2.See in-group standards, values, and morals as truth. 3.We feel distrust, fear, and anger/hatred toward the out-group 4.There is a strong tendency to blame the out-group for any and all problems 5.There is a strong tendency towards obedience to in-group authority 6.There is always a universal tendency towards blind loyalty and solidarity 7.In extreme cases people are willing to fight or die for their in-group |
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What are three possible reasons that ethnocentrism is getting stronger?
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Natural selection has worked to enhance identification in the group (biology), an existential need for meaning, and a loss of faith in cultural answers
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What was Freud's view of religion?
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He saw it as a childhood fantasy or as a childhood obsessional neurosis. Religion is a way to control the existential anxiety associated with childhood and adult issues.
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How does religion help control existential anxiety according to Freud?
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We are helpless as we face the enormity of life and this essential helplessness gives rise to an over-powering anxiety. We then create a compulsive, ritualized practice to relieve the anxiety and protect ourselves
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What is the ID?
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The ID is the part of the personality that is made up of aggression and sexuality.
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Logos
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logic/science
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Mythos
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meaningful/life origins/unconscious
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Horizontal Dimension
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everyday tasks that keep us moving forward in the horizontal plane
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Vertical Dimension
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Timeless, the realm of spirit and soul, mythos, the realm of darkness
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The Ego
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The part of the personality that is the sense of self and becoming independent
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The Persona
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An archetype of the horizontal dimension, can hold morals and values, protects the personality, and permits social experimentation.
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The Shadow
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The dark side of the personality that is made up of tendencies, desires, and experiences that have been rejected by the persona. Also made up of traumas, self-hatred, addictions, etc.
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What was Journey to the East about?
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The characters were symbolic of parts of Hesse, allegory. The end of the book is about the recovering of magic.
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Individuation
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The healthy development of the person towards a balanced, unified, self-aware, and creative life.
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noetic
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revelation, something is revealed
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Summarize the William James reading
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He believed there was one type of consciousness with several potential forms of consciousness blocked off by a thin veil. He thought that you shouldn't accept the truth of someone else's revelation.
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What does a mystical experience do to the horizontal plane according to William James?
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A mystical experience breaks down the authority over ordinary consciousness.
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What are some characteristics of a mystical or peak experience?
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1.Feel more whole and integrated
2.Time and space are disoriented 3.Feel like part of the universe but it's bigger than you 4.a loss of fear/anxiety 5.a powerful sense of love 6.awareness is innocent and child-like |
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What are the four realms that James said can be used to cultivate a mystical experience?
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The physical, creative, social, and spiritual realm.
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What should spiritual practices do?
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Raise our spirits, move us to the vertical plane, and promote inner peace/well-being
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ineffability
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indescribable, beyond comprehension
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noetic quality
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State of illumination, revelation, receive insight into depths of truth and knowledge
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transient
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doesn't last long
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passivity/receptivity
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happening to you, you have no control
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mysterium tremendum
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beyond our ability to understand
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numnious
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filled with a sense of the divine
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otto
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tremendous and fascinating mystery, wholly other, cannot comprehend
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B.F. Skinner
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Explanatory fictions, prediction and control, operant conditioning, reinforcement, extinguishing, shaping, reinforcement schedules
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