Exam 9: The Quest for Meaning

Women attend religious services at higher rates than men

How might you design an experiment to determine whether older people are more spiritual because of their age or because of the adversity they have faced? What do you hypothesize about the results?

"There are lots of ways to think about God and to understand God. My own way satisfies me, but I accept the fact that there are other approaches that work for other people." Which of Fowler's stages of faith does this statement reflect?

a dinner party, you hear someone make the following statement: "Religion doesn't do any good for anyone. Religious people are no healthier, and die at the same ages as do nonreligious people." According to the evidence given in the text, how should you reply?

grew up in the Baptist church, but when I went off to college, I really had to question all the ideas I'd been given as a child and as a teenager. For a while I called myself an atheist. But now I find myself drawn back to the Baptists. It just seems to me that the church offers answers to questions I've been asking myself." Which of Fowler's stages of faith does this statement most reflect?

Fifteen-year-old Jack, when asked about various moral dilemmas, says "Well, I think if my parents think something is right, it must be okay." In Kohlberg's category system, Jack is reasoning at the _______.

have recently found myself very much interested in the beliefs of others and have been reading about Eastern religions. My reading has not changed my own basic beliefs, but I find it fascinating and very broadening." What level of faith in Fowler's system is reflected in this statement?

Which level or levels of moral reasoning are most commonly found among adults in their 20s and 30s?

Kohlberg proposed that individuals move through a sequence of stages of moral reasoning, each stage growing out of, but superseding, the one that came before. His theory is considered an extension of ________ theory.

Which of the following stages in Loevinger's theory of ego development most closely corresponds to the stage of synthetic-conventional faith in Fowler's model?

Which step in Underhill's description of mysticism corresponds to the usual endpoint in Fowler's theory?

Which of Fowler's stages of faith is most parallel to the level of belongingness and love needs in Maslow's theory?

Briefly describe the effects of religiosity on health.

"There are lots of ways to think about God and to understand God. My own way satisfies me, but I accept the fact that there are other approaches that work for other people." Which of Fowler's stages of faith does this statement reflect?

3 levels of moral reasoning described by Kohlberg are _______.

List at least three different life experiences that might trigger a transition from one stage of moral or faith development to another.

Gary Reker finds that older adults in his cross-sectional study place more emphasis on "collectivism" and on "self-transcendent" meaning. a. How do these findings fit with the possible shared changes in personality in later adulthood discussed in the text? b. How could you account for Reker's findings based on cohort differences?

According to Fowler's theory of faith development, _______.

Kohlberg's theory of moral development, the conventional level is made up of 2 stages: the stage of "good-boy or good-girl orientation" and the stage of _______.

Results from longitudinal studies of moral judgment show most clearly that _______.