PSYCH 243 Lecture 32: PSYCH 243 - Lecture 32 - Values
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Plus and minus cognitive judgements about the importance of things. Instrumental values: positive belief about ways to live life: rokeach values scale items, personally, with others. Terminal values: what we want to end up with (inner harmony, exciting life: these give life meaning (purpose and direction) and happiness. Schwartz"s value wheel: values closest to each other as the ones most compatible. Beyond the usual to a more meaningful level. Once a person has transcended from wherever they have been, they cannot get back to the state of not knowing the transcendence. The main issue: each person"s values are unique, based upon their life experiences: dr. peck: life is often difficult and often complex, people have conflicting values. Values gap: many now live by untested and unsupported assumptions: flexibility needed to adjust to new values based on new truths , not as clear set of values for this generation as more formal times.
