PSYC 3570 Study Guide - Final Guide: Instrumental And Value-Rational Action, Past Life Regression, Congenital Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3570
• Professor: Mark Fenske

Document Summary

Concept of survival in historical perspective: religious perspectives. Hindu tradition regards birth and death as illusions. There is no death that one must survive. China and taiwan are impressively modernizing realms. Belief that the unmarried dead can invade the dreams of the living and make them thoroughly miserable. Now death has been defeated: key points. People differ in their interpretations of the afterlife as either literal or metaphorical. A dualistic philosophy is associated with most afterlife beliefs. What we might call the conservation theme has often been a powerful influence on survival beliefs. The final exam theme is common but not universal: the journey of the dead. Most societies perform rituals to reduce the hazards in transitioning between the worlds of the living and the dead. The desert religions and their one god: jewish survival belief in the ancient world. Yahweh is the god of life and this life is all that we have.