May Flashcards
According to May, respecting another’s Dasein is a condition for living in
Mitwelt
According to May, healthy people
Only a and b are correct.
For existentialists, studying people from an external view
violates both the people and their worlds.
May’s concept of humanity includes a belief that people are
a and b
May held that Umwelt includes the world of
objects and things.
Most existentialists believe that
existence takes precedence over essence.
May considered eros the salvation of
sex
May called ______ “the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place”.
will.
According to May, the essential unity of the person and environment is called
Dasein.
May claimed that members of technologically advanced civilizations are most likely to suffer guilt connected with
Umwelt
Rollo May was the foremost spokesperson for the ______ approach to psychology in the United States.
existential
According to May, ______ is an intimate but nonsexual friendship between two people.
philia
According to May, psychologically disturbed individuals deny their
destiny.
May’s concept of humanity includes a belief that people are
a and b
May believed that neurotic anxiety
All the above are correct.
From an existential perspective, as people realize that they are in charge of their own destiny, they experience the
b and c
May believed that ______ is our ultimate destiny.
death
May believed that we experience ______ when we become aware that our existence or some value identified with it may be destroyed.
anxiety.
People’s feelings of self-isolation and alienation from the world are seen in their
all of the above.
May contended that Western civilization
has an urgent need for myths.
May saw psychopathology as a lack of
communicativness.
Basically, existentialists believe that theories
render individuals into objects.
According to May, in North American society, sex is frequently confused with
eros.
Modern existential psychology has roots in the writings of
Søren Kierkegaard.
According to May, Eigenwelt refers to our relationship to
our self.
May claimed that, to the extent that anxiety and guilt arise from our being-in-the-world, they are
ontological.
May suggested that freedom and destiny are
a normal paradox of life.
For May, “the endeavor to understand [people] by cutting below the cleavage between subject and object” defines
existentialism.
Research on terror management theory suggests that reminding people of their own death—that is, making mortality salient—tends to
increase their need to preserve their worldview.
Theories that emphasize interpersonal relationships deal mostly with which aspect of being-in-the-world?
Mitwelt.
From an existential perspective, people acquire freedom of action
only a and b are correct.
A. through expanding their self-awareness.
B. by assuming responsibility for their actions.
C. by minimizing the anxiety associated with their actions.
Two basic concepts of existentialism are
being-in-the-world and nonbeing.
According to May, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, promiscuous sexual behavior, and other compulsive behaviors can be manifestations of
nonbeing.
“A delight in the presence of the other person and an affirmation of his value and development as much as one’s own” is May’s definition of
love.
According to May, ______ is the structure that gives meaning to our experience and allows us to make decisions about the future
intentionality
According to May, a person’s refusal to accept ontological guilt
leads to neurotic or morbid guilt.
Existential therapists must
participate fully in the human encounter with the patient
According to May, freedom comes from understanding our
destiny
May was influenced by Soren Kierkegaard’s view of anxiety as a struggle against
nonbeing
existentialists believe that most people in modern societies experience alienation due to a separation of
self from the world
According to May, ontological guilt is experienced
by most people in one form or another
For May, neurotic symptoms
Preserve one’s Dasein
For May, ______ is an altruistic kind of love.
agape
According to May, healthy people
cherish their freedom & challenge their destiny
Kierkegaard emphasized an equilibrium between
freedom and responsibility
Unlike Carl Rogers, Rollo May was likely to
offer interpretations to a patient or client
The psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one, according to May
Eros
According to May, ____ are the malaise of our time
apathy and emptiness
For May, care is the source of
both love and will
May suggested that freedom and destiny are
a normal paradox of life
For May, ontological guilt associated with Mitwelt arises from our
inability to accurately perceive the world of others
Basically, existentialists believe that theories
render individuals into objects
May believed that healthy people
unite love and will
As a young man, Rollo May, like Erik Erikson
traveled through Europe as a wandering artist
For May, the source of humanity’s most intense pleasure and its most pervasive anxiety is
sex
May identified sex, eros, philia, and agape as the
Forms of love
May recognized three forms of ontological guilt, each of which corresponds to the three
modes of Dasein.
May believed that the story of ______ contains the basic elements of an existential crisis: birth, exile, assertion of independence, search for identity, and death.
Oedipus
For May, freedom of being is synonymous with
essential freedom.
According to May, Eigenwelt refers to our relationship to
our self
May believed that healthy adult relationships are based on
All the above are correct.
a) sex.
b) eros.
c) philia.
d) agape.
May said that eros
is the wish to establish a lasting union.
Rollo May was the foremost spokesperson for the ______ approach to psychology in the United States.
existential
For May, the purpose of therapy is to
set patients free to make their own choices.
May believed that ______ is our ultimate destiny.
death
May called ______ the freedom to act on the choices one makes.
existential freedom
May believed that communication
should transcend the immediate concrete situation and expand self-awareness.
Research on terror management theory suggests that reminding people of their own death—that is, making mortality salient—tends to
increase their need to preserve their worldview.
______ anxiety “is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted constructively on a conscious level”, according to May.
normal
Existentialists adopt a ______ approach to understanding humanity.
phenomenological
Basically, existentialists believe that theories
render individuals into objects.
May contended that Western civilization
has an urgent need for myths.
May’s approach to understanding people is based primarily on his
clinical experience
May believed that will
all of the above
From an existential perspective, people acquire freedom of action
Only a and b are correct.
May’s childhood was marked by
parental arguments and family strife.
The research on the effectiveness of client-centered therapy reported by Rogers and Dymond indicated that after therapy, clients
showed more movement to growth than a matched group of control participants.
Rogers believed that the successful therapist
must be congruent in the counseling relationship.
