Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
28 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
What are the 7 characteristics of an in-group?
|
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 |
|
What are three possible reasons that ethnocentrism is getting stronger?
|
Natural selection has worked to enhance identification in the group (biology), an existential need for meaning, and a loss of faith in cultural answers
|
|
What was Freud's view of religion?
|
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.
|
|
How does religion help control existential anxiety according to Freud?
|
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
|
|
What is the ID?
|
The ID is the part of the personality that is made up of aggression and sexuality.
|
|
Logos
|
logic/science
|
|
Mythos
|
meaningful/life origins/unconscious
|
|
Horizontal Dimension
|
everyday tasks that keep us moving forward in the horizontal plane
|
|
Vertical Dimension
|
Timeless, the realm of spirit and soul, mythos, the realm of darkness
|
|
The Ego
|
The part of the personality that is the sense of self and becoming independent
|
|
The Persona
|
An archetype of the horizontal dimension, can hold morals and values, protects the personality, and permits social experimentation.
|
|
The Shadow
|
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.
|
|
What was Journey to the East about?
|
The characters were symbolic of parts of Hesse, allegory. The end of the book is about the recovering of magic.
|
|
Individuation
|
The healthy development of the person towards a balanced, unified, self-aware, and creative life.
|
|
noetic
|
revelation, something is revealed
|
|
Summarize the William James reading
|
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.
|
|
What does a mystical experience do to the horizontal plane according to William James?
|
A mystical experience breaks down the authority over ordinary consciousness.
|
|
What are some characteristics of a mystical or peak experience?
|
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 |
|
What are the four realms that James said can be used to cultivate a mystical experience?
|
The physical, creative, social, and spiritual realm.
|
|
What should spiritual practices do?
|
Raise our spirits, move us to the vertical plane, and promote inner peace/well-being
|
|
ineffability
|
indescribable, beyond comprehension
|
|
noetic quality
|
State of illumination, revelation, receive insight into depths of truth and knowledge
|
|
transient
|
doesn't last long
|
|
passivity/receptivity
|
happening to you, you have no control
|
|
mysterium tremendum
|
beyond our ability to understand
|
|
numnious
|
filled with a sense of the divine
|
|
otto
|
tremendous and fascinating mystery, wholly other, cannot comprehend
|
|
B.F. Skinner
|
Explanatory fictions, prediction and control, operant conditioning, reinforcement, extinguishing, shaping, reinforcement schedules
|