Chapter 9 Notes Flashcards
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Recognizing our personality preferences enables us to be what?
more effective in how we exercise our wills in making choices and coming to decisions for our lives
Our entire life experience has been a constant process of what?
Making choices
What is the general study of psychology?
All mental processes and behavior
In the term “exercise our will,” what “will” refer to?
Refers to the higher nature in human beings that enables them to reason critically and make moral judgments
What are judgements?
What is right/wrong in our value system
Soul -faith- Decisions about
God-Kingdom Centered
I-Worldly Centered
It is a choice
What is the replacement for hard work?
Nothing
In order to mature, what do you have to do?
Confront problems
Hard work —> problems -(perseverance)-> maturity
Behavior scientists who study our mental processes and behavior trying to figure out how they work
Psychologists
What is unshakable confidence?
- knowing the information
- identify (self-awareness)
- respond
What is confidence?
Why you do what you do
In Carl Jung’s theory, what two activities do we do before we make a decision?
- We take in the information
2. Evaluate the information and come to conclusions
What is decision making?
A psychological process
When our minds are active in the psychological process, we are involved with one other or what other things? What do they lead to?
Data Information Impressions Observations Ideas -They lead to decisions