Psychology - Unit 5

PSYCHOLOGY 5.1

1. Why does William Kirk Kilpatrick refer to Christianity and psychology as competing faiths?
2. Why should Christians bring God’s truth to the discipline of psychology?
3. What is the Christian view of ontology (the study of being)? What is “unity of identity?”
4. According to Christianity, what is the key to healing non-organic mental illnesses?
5. How do Secular Humanists and Christians differ in their views of suffering?


PSYCHOLOGY 5.2

6. What do Muslims believe about being created in the “image of God?” What is their view of human nature?
7. What is the Islamic view of the Fall?
8. What is the Islamic view of Christ’s work on the cross? How does one attain salvation in Islam?
9. What is the Islamic view of the Final Judgment and forgiveness?
10. What are the ramifications of denying Jesus’ death on the cross?

PSYCHOLOGY 5.3

11. What is behaviorism? Why is Secular Humanism’s rejection of behaviorist psychology inconsistent with its worldview?
12. Why do so few Secular Humanists accept behaviorism?
13. What do Secular Humanists believe about the innate nature of mankind?
14. Why do Secular Humanist psychologists justify self-centeredness as a worthwhile goal? How does this contrast with the Christian view?
15. What is the Secular Humanist psychologist’s source of ethics? How does this line of thinking tend toward elitism?


PSYCHOLOGY 5.4

16. What aspects of behaviorism do Marxists accept? What aspects of behaviorism do they reject?
17. How do Marxists avoid accepting the determinism dictated by behaviorism?
18. According to Marxists, what is the major problem with society? Why?
19. How does the Marxist view of the dialectic affect their psychology?
20. How do Marxists define freedom?

PSYCHOLOGY 5.5

21. What role does psychology play in Cosmic Humanism?
22. According to Cosmic Humanism, how do individuals achieve a healthy well-being?
23. According to Cosmic Humanism, why do people suffer health problems?
24. According to Cosmic Humanism, where do criminal tendencies originate?
25. What methods do “fourth force” psychology employ to induce states of higher consciousness in willing individuals?

PSYCHOLOGY 5.6

26. How has the concept of soul become obsolete in the Postmodern era?
27. How do Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari view the soul?
28. What is the definition of “self” according to Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault?
29. What is the theory of “multiple selves” according to Mitchell Stephens and Kenneth Gergen?
30. What are some inherent problems with the notion of a socially constructed self?