REL100 – Final Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated)

REL100 – Final Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) 1. According to our study, mysticism seeks a ____ experience of the sacred reality or higher consciousness. - answer*a. Direct 2. Andrew Newberg's term for the experience of being suspended in a state of "egolessness" and union with everything that exists is ____ - answerb. Absolute Unitary Being (AUB) 3. According to our class presentations, the broad types of classical religious experience studied by scholars include ____ - answere. A. B. and C. above 4. Evolutionary biologists suggest that religious belief in gods and spirits is the results of an overactive ____. - answerc. Agency detection system 5. Widely accepted academic theories of the past claimed that the undeniable religious experience of Florence Nightingale and Joan of Arc were caused by medical diseases such as bipolar disorder. According to our presentations, these theories can be categorized as the ____ approach to religious experience. - answerb. Skeptical 6. Above all, according to Abraham Maslow, those who reach the highest state of experience feel ____ - answera. Creative, responsible, and self-determined 7. According to Rudolf Otto, the foundation of religions is its sense of the _____. - answerc. The holy (sacred) 8. Altered States of Consciousness are mental states of awareness that are different from _____. - answerb. Ordinary, rational states of knowing based on the senses 9. Those who reject the view that there is a "common core" to religious experience are called _____. - answerb. Contextualists 10. Critical realism assumes that _____. - answerd. All of the above 11. Suppose a person experiences a sense that there are no divisions in reality but everything is united as one. According to the categories of W. C. Stace, this sense would be classified as _____. - answera. Introvertive mysticism 12. The practice of the ecstatic utterance of syllables that sound like human speech but are unintelligible to the speaker (and everyone except those who have the special gift of interpretation) is called _____. - answera. Glossalalia 13. According to Rudolf Otto, human persons feel ____ when they have religious experiences such as Moses did when he encountered God in the Burning Bush. - answere. A. and B. above 14. According to Abraham Maslow the highest state of human fulfillment is the ____. - answerc. Peak Experience 15. In Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is it possible to reach the highest level of human fulfillment if one has a basic sense of insecurity? - answerb. No 16. According to Yoga Master Pantañjali, the original state of the mind is in which there is no longer any divisions of distinctions in awareness. In English, this term is called _____. - answerd. Pure Consciousness 17. According to William James, the basis of religion is the sense of _____, - answerb. An invisible "Presence" that is known by intuition 18. According to Aldous Huxley, the "Perennial Consciousness" includes concepts of _____. - answere. A. and B. above 19. According to the categories of W. C. Stace, the basic type of mysticism in which the subjects of mystical experiences are united with a reality (such as God) that is still somewhat distitict from them is ____. - answera. Extrovertive mysticism 20. Contemporary cognitive science views the brain as _____. - answera. A system of systems of processing information 21. One way that cognitive scientists would explain the near universal appearance of religion in human society (whether primitive or modern) is that _____. - answerb. The capacity for religious experience is analogous to language 22. According to current studies of cognitive science, once the brain has fully developed in late adolescence, the structure and operations of the brain remain stable until they deteriorate in old age. - answerb. False 23. According to our presentations, currently cognitive scientists who study the question of brain and mind say that they cannot tell the difference between mechanism of the brain and mental states of consciousness - answera. True 24. According to the studies of cognitive scientist Sara Lazar, those who learn meditation and practice it regularly will _____. - answera. Show a thickening of the cerebral cortex of the brain 25. Andrew Newberg found that what he called the _____ area of the brain of Buddhist monks was especially active during meditation. - answera. Attention