Test 3 Flashcards

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Positivism

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Science should only be concerned with objective, publicly observable events

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Agreement among neo-behaviorist a

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  • evolutionary assumption of continuity between species
  • learning research most important
  • mythological behaviorists
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Logical positivism

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Uninsurable mental events can be used as explanatory agents, as long as they are explanatory, operationally defined, and logically tied to observable events

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Operational definition

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Defines an abstract concept in terms of the procedures used to measure it

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Radical behaviorism

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Unobserved internal events cannot be used to explain behavior

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Methodological behaviorism

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It’s okay to posture internal events as explanatory agents as long as they can be validated in overt behavior

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Purpose behaviorism: who and what

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Edward Chace Tolman; emphasizes goal-directed behavior that ceases when the goal is reached

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Tolman believed:

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Behavior is purposeful; not a passive and automatic conditioned reflex

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Intervening variables

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Used to represent internal unobservable events

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Cognitive maps

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Mental representations of environment, acquired through experience

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Vicarious trial and error (VTE)

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Their inability to make a decision becomes less and they repeat the maZe

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Place learning

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Rats learn to go to a specific place rather than simply repeat a sequence of motor responses

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Latent learning

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Tolman beloved that reinforcement is not necessary for learning

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Learning v. Performance

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Learning can occur in the absence of reinforcement, but performance is affected by reinforcement

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Clark hull

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Disagreed with Tolman’s use of mentalistic concepts; used the hypothetico-deductive model- general postulates from existing learning research

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SER

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reaction potential (likelihood of learned response occurring in a given situation)

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SHR

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Given number of reinforcements

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D

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Current strength of dominant primary drive

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Drive

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Non-specific arousal arising from physiological need

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Hull’s learning theory

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Epitome of logical positivism; scientifically impeccable, but too complex; not readily applicable to real world

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Frederic skinner

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Behavior or organisms; wanted to observe and describe behavior unfettered by cognition or physiology

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Behavior-skinner

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The movement of an organism or its parts in a frame of reference provided by the organism itself or by various external objects or fields of force

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Explanatory fiction

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Using a hypothetical internal factor mediating between a stimulus and response and then using that factor to explain behavior

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Hypothetico-deductive model

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Generated postulates from existing learning research

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Skinner’s research paradigm:

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Lab based; single subject; control conditions; look for easier ways to do things

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Shaping

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Procedure where successive approximations to a desired response are reinforced until the response is achieved

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Project pigeon

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First attempt to apply Skinner’s system to a real world problem; america’s answer to kamikazes

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Baby-in-a-box

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Developed by skinner; sound proof; curtain; got a lot of negative response

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Walden II

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Novel written by skinner; utopian society based on operant conditioning

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Teaching machines

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Mechanical teacher; focused on reinforcement; no one would manufacture these things

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Applied behavioral analysis

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Application of operant conditioning to modify overt behavior

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Three major principles of gestalt theory

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1,2,3

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Wolfgang Koehler

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Intelligent behavior instead of mechanized behavior; gestalt concept of insight

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Mechanized behavior

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Once intelligent or occurred by chances, but has come automatic by reputation

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Intelligent behavior

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Behavior appropriate to a new situation and relatively independent of past experience

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Law of pragnanz

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Minimum principle of the law of simplicity; ultimate meaning of experience and tendency to organize cognitive experience in a good and meaningful way

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Figure ground

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Figure is the part of the perceptual field that is attended to and the ground is the remainder

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Principle of continuity

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Refers to the perceptual tendency to follow elements of a figure that appear to be going in some direction

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Principle of proximity

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Perceptual tendency to perceive elements close to one another in space or time as a perceptual unit

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Principle of similarity

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Refers to the tendency to group together elements that are physically similar

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Principle of closure

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Refers to tendency to make an incomplete perception into a whole object

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Principle of inclusiveness

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Refers to the tendency to perceive only the larger figure when a smaller figure is embedded in it

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Psychophysical isomorphism

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Direct relationship between brain activity and mental experience; underlying brain processes mirror actual experience but are not the same

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Behavior environment

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What you perceive to be there

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Geographical environment

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What is actually there

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Kurt Lewin

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Field theory

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Field theory

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Explain behavior in terms of interaction of a person’s needs and psychological forces;

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Life space

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Influences acting on a person at a given time; internal, external

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Foreign hull

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Anything not a part of life space at a given time

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Conflict

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Occurs when there is a tension within one’s life space which leads to disequilibrium

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Frustration-regression study

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When kids were exposed to better, they become frustrated and acted out when it was taken away. All regressed

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Group dynamics

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Lewin’s focus late in life; groups are physical systems and the behavior of the individuals in the group is determined by the field of energy

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Action research

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What Lewin called his research on group dynamics; designed to promote social change

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Bedlam

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Asylum in London where tourists were allowed to see lunatics

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Mesmerism

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Gravitational attraction of the planets affect people’s well being by exerting influence on an invisible magnetic fluid; trained practitioners could manipulate magnetism

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Hysteria

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Believed to be due to a defective female reproductive system

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Hypnotism

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Modern term for mesmerism; coined by Scottish surgeon James Braid

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Nancy school

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Founded by Auguste liebeault; all people are suggestible, but some more than others

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Charcot school

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Believed patients were suffering from a hereditary neurological condition;

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Pierre Janet

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Psychological analysis for the treatment of hysterics; treatment consisted of discovering dissociated memories by hypnosis

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Free association

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Freud; asked to concentrate on a particular symptom and its origin

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Transference

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Redirections of feelings from one person to another

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Countertransference

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Redirection of a therapists feelings toward a client

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Repression

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Subduing desires in subconscious

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Resistance

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Patients directly or indirectly oppose changing their behavior or refuse to discuss

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Unconscious motivation

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Refers to hidden and unknown desires that are the real reasons people do things

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Seduction hypothesis

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Most repressed memories were of imagined sexual experiences that were perceived as real in the unconscious

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Dream analysis

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All dreams constitute fulfillment of some desire

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Manifest content

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Content of a dream that is remember upon awakening

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Latent content

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Some dreams have true meanings that is disguised beneath the manifest content and must be discovered

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Dream work

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Disguises the wish into an acceptable form that does not disrupt sleep

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Myth of the solitary hero

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Freud’s theory and methods were original and that he endured a solitary fight in a hostile environment

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ego and the mechanisms of defense

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Defined and elaborated defense mechanisms

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Sublimination

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Diverting the sexual goals of the ego to higher purposes valued by society

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Alfred Adler

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Broke away from Freud because he did not believe that the primary cause of mental illness is sexual conflict

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Individual psychology

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Based on premise that due to individual differences humans are unique, whole entities, interconnected biologically, philosophically, and psychologically

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Social interest

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What needs to be developed during childhood

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Style of life

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Unique but consistent psychological orientation toward goals and ideals; originally developed in childhood

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Inferiority complex

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Results from exaggerated feelings of inferiority partly explained by insufficient social interest

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Mistaken lifestyle

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Characterized by feelings on inferiority, self centeredness, concern for safety and superiority over other people

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Teleological

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Overriding purpose assigned to all aspects of human functioning

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Self actualization

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Overriding purpose of existence is to discover and understand the components of our personality and balance them into a unified whole

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Personal unconscious

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Things that were once conscious but are now forgotten or repressed

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Collective unconscious

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Deepest level of the psyche, a repository of common ancestral experiences

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Archetypes

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Comprise the contents of the collective unconscious

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Synchronity

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Believed that archetypes manifest through dreams, fantasies, hunches, or random thoughts

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Every child has two basic needs:

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Biological needs for nourishment and shelter; freedom from danger, fear, and pain

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Neurotic needs

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Excessive, insatiable, and unrealistic demands that dominate the person’s behavior

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Apollonian

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Rational and civilized; desires order, tranquility, and predictability

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Dionysian

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Irrational barbarous part; seeks chaos, adventure, and passion

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Kierkegaard

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Father of existentialism

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Aesthetic stage

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Hedonism and amorality; leads to boredom and despair

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Ethical stage

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Decisions based in ethic imposed by religion/society

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Religious stage

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Recognition of freedom to choose relationship with God, requires a leap of faith

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Deficiency motivated

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People are seeking specific things to alleviate deficiencies in their lives

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Being motivation

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Search for higher values