Existentialist View

Question 1

___ deals with the dynamic or ever-changing transitions.

Answer 1

Existential Psychology

Question 2

Life has no inherent meaning, it is our ___ that draws meaning to it.

Answer 2

choices

Question 3

There are ___ Propositions of Existentialism, namely:

Answer 3

There are ___ Propositions of Existentialism, namely:
1. The Capacity for Self-Awareness
2. Freedom and Responsibility
3. Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others
4. The Search for Meaning
5. Anxiety as a Condition of Living
6. Awareness of Death and Nonbeing

Question 4

___, ___, and ___ constitute the foundation of self-awareness.

Answer 4

The ___ our awareness, the ___ our possibilities for freedom.

Question 5

We are ___ and do not have unlimited time to do what we want in life.

Answer 5

finite

Question 6

We have the potential to take action or not to act; inaction is a ___.

Answer 6

decision

Question 7

We choose our actions, and therefore we can partially create our ___.

Answer 7

destiny

Question 8

___ is the product of discovering how are thrown or situated in the world and then, through commitment, living creatively,

Answer 8

Meaning

Question 9

We are subject to ___, ___, ___, ___, and ___.

Answer 9

Loneliness, meaninglessness, emptiness, guilt, isolation

Question 10

We are basically ___, yet we have an opportunity to relate to other beings.

Answer 10

alone

Question 11

A characteristic existential theme is that people are ___ among alternatives and therefore play a large role in shaping their own destiny

Answer 11

free to choose

Question 12

Schneider and Krug write that existential therapy embraces three values:
1. the freedom to ___ within the context of natural and self-imposed limitations.
2. the capacity to ___ on the meaning of our choices.
3. the capacity to ___ on the choices we make.

Answer 12

Schneider and Krug write that existential therapy embraces three values:
1. the freedom to become within the context of natural and self-imposed limitations.
2. the capacity to reflect on the meaning of our choices.
3. the capacity to act on the choices we make.

Question 13

___ is an inauthentic mode of existence consists of lacking awareness of personal responsibility for our lives and passively assuming that our existence is largely controlled by external forces.

Answer 13

Inauthenticity

Question 14

___ implies that we are responsible for our lives, for our actions, and for our failures to take action. From Sartre’s perspective people are condemned to freedom. He calls for a commitment to choosing for ourselves.

Answer 14

Freedom

Question 15

___ is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose

Answer 15

Existential Guilt

Question 16

___ is a condition that grows out of a sense of incompleteness, or a realization that we are not what we might have become.

Answer 16

Existential Guilt

Question 17

___ implies that we are living by being true to our own evaluation of what is a valuable existence for ourselves.

Answer 17

Authenticity

Question 18

Although our freedom to ___ (___ freedom) is limited by external reality, our freedom to ___ (existential ___) relates to our internal reality.

Answer 18

act, essential;
be, existential

Question 19

People are concerned about preserving their ___, yet at the same time they have an interest in going outside of themselves to relate to other beings and to nature.

Answer 19

uniqueness and centeredness

Question 20

As relational beings, we also strive for connectedness with others. Many existential writers discuss loneliness, uprootedness, and alienation, which can be seen as the failure to develop ties with ___.

Answer 20

others and with nature

Question 21

t takes courage to discover the true “___” and to use its power to transcend those aspects of nonbeing that would destroy us (Tillich, 1952).

Answer 21

ground of our being

Question 22

___ entails the will to move forward in spite of anxiety producing situations, such as facing our death (May, 1975).

Answer 22

Courage

Question 23

One of the greatest fears of clients is that they will discover that there is ___, ___, ___, and that they are merely reflections of everyone’s expectations of them.

Answer 23

no core, no self, no substance

Question 24

___, or being-in-the-world refers to the ability of individuals to be able to think about and reflect on events and to attribute meaning to them.

Answer 24

Dasein

Question 25

___ is what we generally think of as the world, objects, the environment, and living beings. It includes drives, instincts, and natural laws and cycles such as sleeping and walking, living and dying. Keyword: environment

Answer 25

Umwelt

Question 26

___ refers to interrelationships that only human beings may have. Keyword: human relationships

Answer 26

Mitwelt

Question 27

___ emphasizes the importance of beliefts about the world that are religious or spiritual in nature. Keyword: spiritual values

Answer 27

Überwelt

Question 28

___, one’s “own world,” is more than a subjective, inner experience; it is a self-awareness from which we see the world. Keyword: self-awareness

Answer 28

Eigenwelt

Question 29

In time and being, ___ can ve viewed as “clock time” or in terms of space points on a clock or calendar.

Answer 29

Umwelt

Question 30

In time and being, ___ time has a less quantitative function. For example, one cannot measure how much a person cares about another by the number of years that they have known each other.

Answer 30

Mitwelt