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Although May's writings were somewhat philosophical in tone, his views originated from his experience as a |
| | A) | lawyer. |
| | B) | physician. |
| | C) | scientific researcher. |
| | D) | soldier in World War II. |
| | E) | psychotherapist. |
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May said that healthy people |
| | A) | retreat from their destiny. |
| | B) | deny their freedom. |
| | C) | challenge their destiny. |
| | D) | deny death. |
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Kierkegaard, like most existentialists, suggested a balance between |
| | A) | life and death. |
| | B) | freedom and responsibility. |
| | C) | hope and despair. |
| | D) | consciousness and unconsciousness. |
| | E) | Yin and Yang. |
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May believed that people acquire freedom of action in part by |
| | A) | expanding their self-awareness. |
| | B) | relying on other people. |
| | C) | using the tools and technology of modern society. |
| | D) | denying nonbeing. |
| | E) | becoming self-actualizing. |
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May would accept the statement that |
| | A) | essence precedes existence. |
| | B) | subject and object must not be split. |
| | C) | responsibility precedes freedom. |
| | D) | freedom takes precedence over responsibility. |
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The term Dasein expresses |
| | A) | the ultimate form of love. |
| | B) | the world of things or objects. |
| | C) | the essential unity of person and environment. |
| | D) | nonbeing. |
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The terms Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt refer to |
| | A) | existential dread. |
| | B) | mechanisms of escaping from freedom. |
| | C) | mechanism of escaping from responsibility. |
| | D) | a person's being-in-the-world. |
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The personality theories of Sullivan, Maslow, Rogers, and others that emphasize interpersonal relations deal mostly with |
| | A) | Umwelt |
| | B) | Mitwelt |
| | C) | Eigenwelt |
| | D) | Dasein |
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Our relationship to self and our ability to grasp who we are best describes |
| | A) | Umwelt. |
| | B) | Mitwelt. |
| | C) | Eigenwelt. |
| | D) | nonbeing. |
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Various compulsive behaviors and addictions can be seen as manifestations of |
| | A) | Mitwelt. |
| | B) | nonbeing. |
| | C) | normal anxiety. |
| | D) | neurotic anxiety. |
| | E) | destiny. |
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May defined anxiety as |
| | A) | a feeling of separation from the natural world. |
| | B) | an awareness that our existence or some value identified with it may
be destroyed. |
| | C) | the imaginative playing with the possibility of some act or state occurring. |
| | D) | a fear of nonbeing and an attraction to nothingness or death. |
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The guilt that arises from our inability to accurately perceive the world of others is associated with |
| | A) | Umwelt. |
| | B) | Mitwelt. |
| | C) | Eigenwelt. |
| | D) | neurotic anxiety. |
| | E) | intentionality. |
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May defined intentionality as |
| | A) | the desire to achieve self-fulfillment. |
| | B) | the feeling of threat that leads to a realization of Dasein. |
| | C) | the acceptance of ontological guilt. |
| | D) | the structure that gives meaning to our experience and allows us to make decisions about the future. |
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May regarded care as the source of |
| | A) | love and will. |
| | B) | eros and philia. |
| | C) | philia and agape. |
| | D) | Dasein and nothingness. |
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May defined love as |
| | A) | a delight in the presence of the other person and an affirmation of his value and development as much as one's own |
| | B) | the capacity to organize oneself toward a prized partner |
| | C) | the imaginative playing with the idea that another is an object of affection |
| | D) | agape minus eros |
| | E) | philia minus eros |
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According to May, an authentic person must unite love with |
| | A) | sex. |
| | B) | imagination. |
| | C) | wish. |
| | D) | agape. |
| | E) | will. |
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Philia is defined as |
| | A) | love without care. |
| | B) | care without love. |
| | C) | will without wish. |
| | D) | an intimate, nonsexual friendship. |
| | E) | a sexual, nonintimate relationship. |
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May believed that freedom grows from an understanding of one's |
| | A) | authenticity. |
| | B) | will. |
| | C) | intentionality. |
| | D) | responsibility. |
| | E) | destiny. |
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According to May, a denial of destiny leads to |
| | A) | nonbeing. |
| | B) | psychopathology. |
| | C) | freedom. |
| | D) | freedom and responsibility. |
| | E) | guilt and shame. |
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May contended that contemporary people of Western civilization have an urgent need for |
| | A) | religion. |
| | B) | peace. |
| | C) | unity. |
| | D) | individuality. |
| | E) | myths. |
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People use myths to |
| | A) | transcend the immediate situation. |
| | B) | expand self-awareness. |
| | C) | search for identity. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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In The Cry for Myth, May suggested that one myth is powerful today because it contains elements of existential crises common to all of us. This is the story of |
| | A) | Oedipus. |
| | B) | Moses. |
| | C) | Hercules. |
| | D) | Job. |
| | E) | Jonah. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education