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What is the self?
Secular psychology references this instead of the soul.
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What is first force psychology?
B.F. Skinner's behaviorism
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What are Christianity and Islam?
The two worldviews that believe in an individuated soul.
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Who is Pavlov?
This man played with dogs.
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What is the flesh?
According the Book of Ephesians, the world, this, and the devil are three sources of temptation.
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What are "God is a myth," and "we are purely physical beings?"
One of the two primary assumptions that shape secular psychology.
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What is third force psychology?
Abraham Maslow's self-actualiztion.
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What is higher consciousness?
One worldview believes we can escape all physical, spiritual, or mental pain by achieving this.
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What is Postmodernism?
According to this worldview, a healthy person ignores societies attempts to define him/her as either sane or insane.
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What is positive psychology?
This branch of psychology focuses on promoting mental health and happiness rather than treating mental illness.
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What is the Fall or man's rebellion against God and our fellow man.
This is the source of all psychological problems according to Christianity.
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What is second force psychology?
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis.
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What is submission to Allah?
In Islam mental health comes through this.
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What are Secularism and Marxism?
The two worldviews that deny the existence of immaterial souls.
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What is visualization?
The process by which some believe that human beings can physically heal themselves.
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What is behaviorism?
According this school, human beings are stimulus receptors with no free will
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What are midichlorians?
According to Qui-Gon Jinn, these allow the Jedi to use the force.
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What are human beings?
In Islam, this is responsible for redemption.
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What is classical conditioning?
Using this, Marxists believe they can help start a communist revolution.
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What is Christianity?
This worldview's view of the soul accounts for identity, free will, and our proclivity to do wrong.
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What is Postmodernism?
This school denies the existence of a single, separate, unified self.
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What is fourth force psychology?
The attempt to integrate transcendent religious teachings within the framework of modern psychology is part of this force.
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What is consciousness?
In Christianity, this is the mind.
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What is Postmodernism?
This worldview denies the distinction between normal and abnormal behavior.
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What is epiphenomenalism?
This is the belief that the mind is a projection of the brain's activity.
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