Test Yourself

DEFINITIONS

consciousness:

epistemological:

ideation:

morphology:

paradoxical:

penumbra:

predicated:

substantive:

vagaries:

SHORT ANSWER

1. What presumption did the Freudians make with regards to the reason behind much psychopathology?

2. What are two of the reasons that are given for the clinical introduction in this course?

3. What are the seven domains to be discussed in this course?

4. What tradition discussed “allows for the comprehension of personality from the bottom up”?

5. What is one reason given for the purpose behind understanding archaic human expression and experience?

6. What is one of the ways that behaviorists have criticized psychoanalysts?

7. What two thinkers attempted to “draw a relationship between [...] individual moral obligations, [...] failure to live up to them, and the genesis of the authoritarian catastrophes that characterized the secular 20th century”?

8. What does the lecturer mean by “hereditary transmission” in shamanism?

9. What OCEAN trait does the lecturer associate with spontaneous shamanic vocation, and why?

10. What connection does the lecturer make between prayer and secular thought?

11. How does the lecturer explain the roles of high openness and neuroticism with their regards to transformation?

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What does the lecturer suggest about the grip of interest in learning?

a) the most malleable aspect in education

b) more common in the child learner

c) the responsibility of the teacher is to inspire

d) reflects an instinctive call toward a transcendent goal

2. Of the groups discussed, which one claims that “the vagaries of human existence are such that suffering capable of generating psychopathology is not necessarily a consequence of trauma”?

a) behaviorists

b) existentialists

c) phenomenologists

d) suffragists

3. In the lecture, the instructor claims that “there’s nothing that’s more emblematic of what a human being is than the process of” what?

a) cooperation

b) sacrifice

c) consciousness

d) competition

4. Of the groups discussed, which one was said to be “exceptionally good at generating hypotheses”?

a) phenomenologists

b) empiricists

c) psychoanalysts

d) artificial intelligence

5. What tradition does the instructor say is a secularization of Christianity?

a) humanitarian

b) existentialism

c) humanist

d) Rogerian

6. Rogers believed that ______________ in the psychotherapeutic process was intrinsically ___________.

a) talking; performative

b) belief; unhelpful

c) talking; self-centered

d) truth-seeking; redemptive

7. What percentage of the population has an IQ below 83, per the lecture?

a) 8%

b) 10%

c) 13%

d) 12%

8. What trait does the lecturer describe as the most powerful predictor in social science?

a) agreeableness

b) intelligence

c) sociability

d) race

9. What does Karl Friston link to positive emotion, per the lecture?

a) increased physical competency, striving

b) decreased practical limitations over repeated failure

c) increased social competency, or experience

d) decreased entropy as one nears a goal

10. How does the lecturer view the role of biology in personality transformation?

a) commonly overemphasized

b) underpins the motivational and emotional changes

c) a way to excuse problematic behavior

d) negates religious claims

11. What is one thing the lecturer says about moral relativism?

a) supports transcendent ethics

b) denies a unifying ethic, escaping responsibility

c) aligns with Piaget’s theory

d) enhances social cooperation

12. What does Piaget’s analysis of games suggest about social interactions?

a) cooperation is not as important as dominance

b) only a narrow set lead to sustainable improvement

c) rules from games undermine social interaction

d) both acts are purely competitive

13. Roughly speaking, around how many years ago can we track the beginning of rapid cultural progression from apparent cultural stagnation?

a) 350,000

b) 330, 000

c) 10,000

d) 20,000

14. What is one practical outcome that the lecturer associates with psychoanalytic symbolic analysis?

a) provides a model for psychopathology

b) refutes scientific claims on morality

c) illuminates meaning of dreams and literature

d) refutes social claims on morality

15. One essential presumption of Freudians, as pointed out in this lecture, is that the default human personality is what?

a) healthy

b) a blank slate

c) fixed, or static

d) infinitely reducible

16. How does the lecturer describe the entropy associated with negative emotion?

a) it is a result of neuroplasticity, and social disarray

b) emerges with the dissolution of predictable structures

c) there is little correlation or causation between the two

d) entropy is an exaggeration, or delusion

17. What does the lecturer suggest about the voluntary encounter with stressors?

a) increases complexity of perspective and thought

b) activates challenge mode and positive motivation

c) reinforces the importance of social cooperation

d) roughly equivalent to involuntary suffering