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May: Existential Psychology
True or False
1
Existentialism began in the United States.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
2
Rollo May had an unpredictable mother and an older sister who experienced a psychotic breakdown.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
3
During his lifetime, Kierkegaard's ideas had little effect on philosophical thought.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
4
Existentialists advocate a split between subject and object.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
5
Most existentialists suggest that people be studied from an objective frame of reference.
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TRUE
B)
FALSE
6
The acquisition of freedom inevitably leads to anxiety.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
7
Neurotic anxiety, May said, is disproportionate to the threat and involves intrapsychic conflict.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
8
Ontological guilt associated with Mitwelt arises from our separation from the natural world.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
9
For May, intentionality is always conscious.
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TRUE
B)
FALSE
10
Care is the source of love and will.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
11
May believed that love and will should be separate.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
12
May considered sex to be the salvation of eros.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
13
May believed that our ultimate destiny is death.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
14
May suggested that healthy relationships blend all four forms of love.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
15
Eros is a psychological desire to seek creation through an enduring union with a loved one.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
16
Agape is an altruistic love that does not depend on the behavior of the loved person.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
17
According to May, anxiety and guilt are the malaise of our time.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
18
The goal of May's therapy is to set people free.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
19
May believed that the Oedipus story lost its power when psychoanalysts popularized it and thus trivialized it.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
20
May believed that humans are capable of doing both tremendous good and immense evil.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
21
May's existential psychology has generated extensive research.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
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