Question 1

List and define the four forms of love, as seen by Rollo May.

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May identified four kinds of love in Wes...

Question 2

May was influenced by Søren Kierkegaard's view of anxiety as a struggle against

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A)  nonbeing.
B)  destiny.
C)  fate.
D)  intentionality.

Question 3

From an existential perspective, people acquire freedom of action

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A)  through expanding their self-awareness.
B)  by assuming responsibility for their actions.
C)  by minimizing the anxiety associated with their actions.
D)  All the above are correct.
E)  Only a and b are correct.

Question 4

Two basic concepts of existentialism are

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A)  being-in-the-world and nonbeing.
B)  normal and neurotic anxiety.
C)  subject and object.
D)  reality and illusion.

Question 5

Existentialists believe that most people in modern societies experience alienation due to a separation of

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A)  body from soul.
B)  child from mother.
C)  self from the world.
D)  body from mind.

Question 6

May saw psychopathology as a lack of

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A)  will.
B)  love.
C)  intentionality.
D)  communicativeness.

Question 7

Kierkegaard emphasized an equilibrium between

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A)  action and nonaction.
B)  fear and courage.
C)  love and hate.
D)  freedom and responsibility.

Question 8

For May, care is the source of

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A)  love.
B)  will.
C)  purpose.
D)  both love and will.

Question 9

According to May, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, promiscuous sexual behavior, and other compulsive behaviors can be manifestations of

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A)  nonbeing.
B)  destiny.
C)  fate.
D)  intentionality.

Question 10

May identified sex, eros, philia, and agape as the

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A)  primary sources of ontological guilt.
B)  modes of Dasein.
C)  goals of intentionality.
D)  original sources of anxiety.
E)  forms of love.

Question 11

Theories that emphasize interpersonal relationships deal mostly with which aspect of being-in-the-world?

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A)  Umwelt
B)  Mitwelt
C)  Eigenwelt
D)  Dasein
E)  Gestalt

Question 12

According to May, people's being-in-the-world is characterized by

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A)  Umwelt.
B)  Mitwelt.
C)  Eigenwelt.
D)  All the above are correct.

Question 13

Existential therapists must

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A)  participate fully in the human encounter with the patient.
B)  teach the patient a guiding philosophy of life.
C)  master the specialized techniques and methods of existential psychotherapy.
D)  maintain a dispassionate, attitude toward the patient. A

Question 14

May believed that healthy people

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A)  unite love and will.
B)  separate love and will.
C)  strengthen love over will.
D)  strengthen will over love.

Question 15

May called ______ the freedom to act on the choices one makes.

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A)  essential freedom
B)  existential freedom
C)  freedom of intentionality
D)  freedom of will

Question 16

May believed that the story of ______ contains the basic elements of an existential crisis: birth, exile, assertion of independence, search for identity, and death.

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A)  Oedipus
B)  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
C)  Cinderella
D)  Three Little Pigs

Question 17

For May, the source of humanity's most intense pleasure and its most pervasive anxiety is

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A)  care.
B)  sex.
C)  eros.
D)  nonbeing. B

Question 18

Modern existential psychology has roots in the writings of

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A)  Søren Kierkegaard.
B)  Friedrick Nietzche.
C)  Martin Heidegger.
D)  Jean-Paul Sartre. A

Question 19

For May, "the endeavor to understand [people] by cutting below the cleavage between subject and object" defines

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A)  existence.
B)  essence.
C)  authenticity.
D)  existentialism.
E)  anxiety.

Question 20

People's feelings of self-isolation and alienation from the world are seen in their

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A)  separation from nature.
B)  lack of meaningful interpersonal relationships.
C)  alienation from authentic self.
D)  All the above are correct.

Exam 12: Allport: Psychology of the Individual

List and define the four forms of love, as seen by Rollo May.

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