CHAPTER TWELVE Flashcards

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Central insight

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at the center if what makes us humans

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INTROSPECTION

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Systematic observation of one’s own perceptions and thought processe

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3
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Living in bad faith creates 3 problems:

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Living a cowardly life
Unhappiness
Is it impossible

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4
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Thrown-ness -

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The circumstances of your existence

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AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE

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Coming to terms with existence; being honest, insightful, and morally correct

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Anguish –

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everything we do no matter what choice we have has a plus or minus, every once in a while, your choices go off the rails unintendedly and anguish is our response to this

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Forlornness

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Forlornness

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Despair –

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losing all hope that things can be better in the future, no matter how hard we try to do the right thing, sometimes things don’t go according to plan

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SELF-ACTUALIZATION: RODGERS

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People have one basic tendency and striving: to actualize, maintain, and enhance their own experience People can be understood only from the perspective of their phenomenal field

Rogers’s phenomenal field definition: the entire panorama of conscious experience

Actualization – the goal of existence is to satisfy this need

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10
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Nirvana –

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a serene, selfless state

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11
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Enlightenment

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overcoming the barriers of becoming one with something bigger than us

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12
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Anatta

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term to describe a non-self, a separation of oneself

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13
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Anicca –

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all things must pass, nothing is permanent, including us, past, present, future in terms of importance

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14
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Chronically accessible constructs

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The construal’s that come up all the time in your mind, most easily

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PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS

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The way we construe the world is what we expect to see in the future

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16
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Hierarchy of needs

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how human motivation is characterized (lower needs must be met first)

17
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What is true about flow, or autotelic experience?

People who spend more time in flow tend to be depressed.

During flow, time seems to pass very slowly.

People experience a very positive state during flow.

In order to experience flow, a person’s skills must meet the challenge of the activity.

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People who spend more time in flow tend to be depressed.

During flow, time seems to pass very slowly.

18
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According to optimistic humanism, the goal of life is to

understand other people.

self-actualize, or maintain and enhance life.

enhance one’s social experience, or Mitwelt.

achieve enlightenment.

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self-actualize, or maintain and enhance life.

19
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The alternative to bad faith is

living an authentic existence.

being connected with others and happiness.

achieving nirvana.

experiencing thrown-ness.

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living an authentic existence.

20
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Hapiness

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teh achievement of hedonic means (seeking pleassure and comfort ) or eudaimonic means (seeking fulfill ones potential)

21
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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOG

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  • Positive psychology focuses on positive phenomenon
  • The rebirth of humanistic psychology

o Focuses on uniquely human capacities and the meaning of life

  • True happiness comes from overcoming important challenges
22
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Source of constructs

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chosen interpretation of experience
Personal construct system

23
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Sociality corollary –

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we can only understand others by understanding their personal construct system
Constructs and reality

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VIRTUES

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character strengths

25
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Core virtues:

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courage, justice, humanity (compassion), temperance, wisdom, transcendence (transcending yourself interacting with others), interacting with the environme

25
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Mindful

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to be aware and in control of your experience

26
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Flow

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a state of consciousness where you lose track of time and self by becoming completely absorbed in what you are doing

27
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MINDFULNESS

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Aware of every thought, sensation, and experience

28
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Optimal experience –

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how to make the most of your moment-moment experience because it’s what really matters in life He said the best way you can spend your time is doing autotelic activities

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Autotelic activities –

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ones that are enjoyable for their own sake, this is the best way to spend time

30
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Relatedness

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establishing meaningful and satisfying ties to other people

31
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Hedonic well-being

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maximize pleasure, minimize pain, can be dangerous

32
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True happiness

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comes from overcoming important challenges

33
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Optimism advantages:

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Less fearful, more willing to take risks, relatively happy

34
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Optimism disadvantages:

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Take foolish risks or fail to anticipate problems

35
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Eudaimonia

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focus is on intrinsic goals

36
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Hedonia

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focuses on extrinsic goals

37
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Happiness is detrmined by …

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Geneics, life cuircomstances intenional activities

38
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personal construct theory

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each person experience of teh worls is orgainzed by a unique se t if person contructs