PSY 393- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Rejected attempts to understand reality via abstract logic and reasoning. Relational truth: all truth relative to the individual perceiving. Existentialism (cid:862)e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) is the fo(cid:272)us of this philosoph(cid:455). Concerned with meaning generation: when confronted by, our isolation, our uniqueness, an infinitely vast and unknowable universe. Define: an area of philosophy concerned with the meaning of human existence (cid:862)bei(cid:374)g-in-the-(cid:449)orld(cid:863: must examine human beings in their world, the self cannot exist without the world. Increased sexual freedom did not reduce psychological suffering: conversion hysteria decreased, however, complaints of alienation, apathy, lack of meaning and purpose increased. Structural model and psychic determinism: fosters depersonalization by fragmenting the person, delegates responsibility for action to unconscious demons. Existentialism adopted: to increase sense of, meaning responsibility. Holistic approach (focus on the total person) Reflects the conflict between: the (cid:862)self(cid:863) as a subject with free will, the (cid:862)self(cid:863) as an (cid:862)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t(cid:863) controlled by powerful external forces. Ma(cid:455)"s criti(cid:272)is(cid:373)s of rogers: overemphasized the subject side, assumed we are:
