UNIT 9 Flashcards

1
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quest for meaning

A
  • search for ultimate knowledge of life through an individualized understanding of the sacred
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2
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spirituality

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  • an individual’s personal quest for meaning
  • inner process often distinguished from religiosity, which involves outward signs of a quest for meaning
  • personal experience and individual practice
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3
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self-transcendence

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  • knowing the self as part of a larger whole that exists beyond the physical body and personal history
  • awareness of the oneself as part of a larger whole
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gerotranscendence

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  • idea that meaning systems increase in quality as we age

- meaning systems increase in quality as we age

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5
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postformal stages

Riegel

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  • adult stage of cognitive development that involves thinking beyond the linear and logical ways
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6
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religiosity

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  • outward expression of spiritual beliefs
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7
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moral reasoning

Kohlberg

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  • analyzing what is right and what is wrong, judging the rightness or wrongness of an act
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8
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decentering

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  • cognitive movement outward from the self
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9
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faith

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  • a set of assumptions or understanding about the nature of our connections with others and the world in which we live
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10
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  1. synthetic-conventional faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • adolescence to early adulthood
  • Implicit assumption that authority is to be found outside oneself
  • First in adolescence and then continues well into early adulthood
  • Many adults remain within this form
  • danger: comfortable taking in the norm of society
  • transition: questioning own ideas and personality
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11
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  1. individuative-reflective faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • young adulthood
  • Requires an interruption of reliance on an external source of authority
  • Relocation of authority from external to internal
  • Many adults reject or move away from faith community they belong
  • Can occur without rejection
  • Reexamines old assumptions
  • Responsibility in a new way
  • Choose groups based on our beliefs and values
  • danger: only committed to this problem
  • transition: question other beliefs
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12
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  1. conjuctive faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • midlife
  • Opening outward from the self-preoccupation of the individuative reflective level
  • Search for balance
  • There are MANY TRUTHS - for other people
  • strength: personal faith but everybody different
  • danger: lack of definitiveness
  • transition: universality and connection
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13
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  1. universalizing faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • old age
  • Involves a step beyond individuality
  • Open and integrated but is still struggling with the paradox of searching for universality
  • connects us all
  • sense of our own self
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14
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self-preoccupation

Reker meaning of life

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  • financial security

- meeting basic needs

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individualism

Reker meaning of life

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  • personal growth

- achievement, creativity, leisure

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16
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collectivism

Reker meaning of life

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  • traditions and culture

- social causes

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17
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self-transcendence

Reker meaning of life

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  • enduring values, ideals, religious activities

- altruism

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18
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evolutionary truce
(Synthesis Model - Kegan)
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  • Lean further toward one than toward the other

- no balance between connection and independence

19
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mysticism

Underhill

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  • self-transcendent experience
  • Know they are part of a larger whole and that they have an existence beyond their own physical body and personal history
20
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religion

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  • doctrines
  • institutions
  • external
21
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gerotranscendence/transcendence

Erikson - 9th stage of development

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  • person overcomes past and future generations
  • feeling of being one with universe
  • great understanding of oneself
  • increased sense of the inter relatedness of others
  • increased sense of connection to the past and future generations
  • more open, but selective`
22
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transcendence or spiritual needs

maslow 8th level

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  • non transcending self actualizers

- transcending self-actualizers

23
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non transcending self actualizers

Maslow 8th level

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  • a little bit self focused
24
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transcending self-actualizers

Maslow 8th level

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  • peak experiences
  • intense interest in beauty
  • need to become more than they are
  • striving for perfection
  • goodness unity and truth
  • awe inspiring
25
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unity orientation

Kohlberg - postconventional level

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  • unity with life, the world, a higher power
  • even broader
  • confrontation with one’s death
26
Q
  1. Primal or Undifferentiated Faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • undifferentiated around you

- needs will be met

27
Q
  1. Intuitive-projective faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • 3 to 7
  • images and feeling
  • fantasy based
  • awesome things
  • imagination
  • danger: images being aw inspiring are terrifying
  • transition: emergence of concrete thinking
28
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  1. mythic-literal faith

Fowler stages of faith

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  • school age
  • ideas become literal
  • strength: ability to formulate a story
  • hinder: literalness of the story / sense of righteousness
  • transitions: stories contradict
29
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scope

3 dimensions to purpose MCKNIGHT AND KASHDAN

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  • how many areas of our lives are affected by our purpose
30
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strength

3 dimensions to purpose MCKNIGHT AND KASHDAN

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  • tendency of purpose to influence behavior, thoughts, and emotions
31
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awareness

3 dimensions to purpose MCKNIGHT AND KASHDAN

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  • how much the person is aware of and can talk about their purpose
32
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sense of life

Rys

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  • how we move towards embracing life
33
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life affirmation

Rys sense of life

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  • desire and drive to live
34
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self-acceptance

Rys sense of life

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  • evaluation of oneself

- one abilities and qualities

35
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goal awareness

Rys sense of life

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  • vision of the future self, take responsibilities for ourselves
36
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sense of freedom

Rys

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  • independence
  • creativity
  • choice
  • self determination
  • selecting our values
37
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vitality valuable states

valuation of the future

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  • physical conditions
38
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spiritual valuable states

valuation of the future

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  • aesthetic values
  • right for you
  • source of values
39
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  1. awakening

Underhill -mysticism

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  • seeing the world objectively
  • Awakening the possibility of stepping outside one’s own perspective and understanding the world from a point of deep connection
40
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  1. purification

Underhill -mysticism

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  • broader view of self
  • self improvement
  • Separateness
  • Broader perspective
  • Sees his or her own IMPERFECTION, FRUITLESS ENDEAVORS AND FLAWS
  • Eliminate flaws = turn inward again
  • Strongly focused on SELF-DISCIPLINE
41
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  1. illumination

Underhill- mysticism

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  • awareness of larger reality
  • Deeper, more prolonged awareness of light, or greater reality, or God
  • Stage 7 in Kohlberg
42
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  1. dark night of soul

Underhill -mysticism

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  • inward reflection and self understanding
  • To achieve ultimate union: personal pleasure must be abandoned
  • Turning back to self, to awareness, and exploration
43
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  1. unity

Underhill -mysticism

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  • with something large or transcendence

- With God, reality, beauty

44
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process of transition

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  • conforming to individuality
  • individuality to integration
  • integration to self-transcendence