Early 20th Century Psychology | Types of Psychology | Transpersonal Psychology | East/West 21st Century Psychology | Research |
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Does the theory or psychosynthesis come from eastern or western psychology?
Eastern
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What is an approach to psychology that would focus on uniquely human concerns such as meaning, creativity, and personal growth?
Humanistic psychology
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What is the study of how transcendent experiences can be used to foster a greater sense of well-being
Transpersonal
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Western psychology adapted more ideals in the beginning of the 21st century
Eastern Psychology
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What is the practice of paying attention to the ongoing experience of life without interference, reactivity, or avoidance.
Mindfulness Meditation
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What is the benchmark of mental health according to Adler?
People’s innate capacity for compassion and self-knowledge
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What is a necessary hallmark of optimal health which includes the overcoming of limits of the individual self and its desires in spiritual contemplation and realization?
Self-transcendence
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Name two transpersonal psychologists
Carl Jung, Roberto Assagioli, Stranislav Grof, and Ken Wilber
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This psychologist developed the first complete personality theory from a western perspective including eastern perspectives for the first time.
Carl Jung
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Studies have shown that these practices can help people manage chronic pain.
Meditation, yoga, and group support
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What are two benchmarks of mental health in Buddhism?
Compassion and Wisdom
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What assumes that normal adjustment to the everyday world is based on illusions that serve to protect a limited self-ideal.
Existential psychology
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In Grof’s theory of the psychedelic experience can invoke how many levels of the unconscious?
Four
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Who was the first woman to gain recognition in the psychoanalytic movement
Karen Horney
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Mindfulness meditation has been found useful in coping with what conditions?
Anxiety, depression, and substance abuse
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What is the name for a recurring symbol that can be found in many religions and cultures throughout history.
Archetype
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What is one of the three characteristics of a fully functioning person?
Greater openness to experience, existential living, more trust in one’s organism
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In Wilber’s theory of personality development how many stages are there?
10
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What is the specific practice is told to help maintain inner peace.
Meditation
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Studies of Tibetan monks showed that what permanent change can be made after thousands of hours of meditation.
Number of neurons can increase and lead to larger brain mass.
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Alfred Adler believed that people possessed an innate drive toward social ____.
Interest or feeling
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What are two of the ideals that Maslow considers Being needs?
Justice, truth, beauty, goodness, aliveness
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What is the tenth stage of Wilber’s theory of personality development?
Experience of complete oneness with God, Brahman, Buddha nature, the Tao or ultimate reality.
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In Maslow’s book Religion, Values and Peak Experiences, he compares reality one feels as “godly” to what kind of experience?
Mystical Experience
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Define neurotheology.
The use of neurological imaging techniques to study religious experience.
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