CLS Exam 1

2 Corinthians 5:10

"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."

When the two fish were first put into the same tank, why did the big fish not eat the little fish?

Because there was a pain of glass between the big fish and the little fish, and the big fish gave up after smashing his face over and over again.

At the end of the experiment, the big fish did not eat the little fish because

He was convinced he couldn't do it no matter how hard he tried.

Why did four of the original gorillas pull the newcomer off the ladder?

Because the four original gorillas believed the the bananas were still electrified.

After all five of the original gorillas had been replaced by other gorillas

The gorillas who had never been shocked did not ascend the latter because they had been taught to be helpless.

In 1954 Roger Bannister became the first runner in history to break the four-minute mile. Afterwards, what happened?

During the next three years, fifteen more runners did it.

According to this article, what prevented runners from breaking the four-minute mile before Roger Bannister accomplished it?

A thought can limit you and keep you from reaching your potential, even if the thought isn't true.

Why did some students do poorly when they flipped over the first piece of paper?

They received words that were impossible to solve.

Why did some students do poorly when they flipped over the third piece of paper?

Because they expected to fail.

When the teacher told the truth to the students who were feeling hopeless

The truth changed how they were thinking and how they were feeling.

The dogs that pressed the lever in order to stop the electric shocks could be described as:

Friendly and energetic.

When the dogs that received escapable shocks in the first experiment were brought into the second experiment, what did they do?

They figured out how to stop the horrible noise by jumping into the other box.

When the dogs who received inescapable shocks in the first experiment were brought into the second experiment, what did they do?

They assumed they were helpless, and many just laid down and whimpered.

What did Donald Hiroto (the 30-year-old graduate student) do that had not been done previously?

Hiroto set up experiments with people parallel to what had been done with the dogs.

According to this article, how do people sow "the Seeds of Hopelessness" into their own hearts?

By assuming their helplessness will last forever and will affect many areas.

According to this article, which of the following is likely to result when depression descends on the people who believe their actions are futile?

a) Small obstacles seem like insurmountable barriers
b) They give up easily when impeded
c) They don't think very well and are inattentive
ALL OF THE ABOVE

According to this article, when second graders flunk a math test, what is true about those who DON'T give up?

They don't quit and try a new approach to improve their performance on the next test.

The following letters represent words that express how a person can conquer Learned Helplessness.
A, B, C, D, E. What do these letters represent?

A - Adversity
B - Belief
C - Consequence
D - Disputation
E - Energization

Which letter includes how people "feel" about the adversity they encounter?

C - Consequence

Which letter is associated with lies taking root in people's minds?

B - Belief

Which letter is most closely associated with a resurgence of hope?

E - Energization

Which letter is most closely associated with counteracting a lie in order to defeat the Learned Helplessness that comes from the lie?

D - Dispution

What relationship do you see between deception and pride? In what way does pride make people more susceptible to deception?

Deceiving themselves by believing they are always right, never questioning themselves

What are three common thinking distortions (mentioned in this article) in which people give "fact status" to the assumptions they make?

1) Fortune Telling
2) Mind-Reading
3) Labeling

The big fish assumes he'll never be able to eat the little fish. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune Telling; labeling himself as permanently incapable.

The man assumes the woman who says she has a prior commitment doesn't really want to go out with him. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Mind-Reading

After hearing the woman's answer, the same young man begins to doubt himself and he assumes he is unattractive to women in general. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Mind-Reading; labeling himself as permanently unattractive.

The gorillas assume the bananas will always be electrified. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune telling

Before Roger Bannister ran a 4-minute mile, the experts said the human body wasn't made to go that fast. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Labeling

An elephant believes he'll never be able to pull the stake out of the ground. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune Telling; labeling himself as permanently incapable.

A person says "I'll never find a job." Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune telling

An 18-year old student becomes convinced he is "by nature a lazy person," and then he flunks out of college. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Labeling

During the wilderness temptation period, how did Jesus respond to Satan's "flaming darts"?

He responded to each attack with the words "It is written." Lies have no power over someone who knows the truth.

If truth sets free, what causes the bondage that exists in people's lives?

The bondage will remain in us exactly as long as that dart remains in us (i.e. as long as we believe the lie).

How do we as believers protect ourselves from "flaming darts"?

We must learn how to use the shield of faith. Using the shield of faith means that once you see the truth in a given area, you refuse to accept thoughts that contradict the truth.

What causes a person's "shield of faith" to grow?

Meditation on God's word.

Can the enemy speak through the mouth of another person? If so, can you give a scriptural example?

Yes
Peter saying "you will be not be crucified"
Jesus saying "get behind me Satan."

Pride is preoccupation with \____, regardless of what form it takes.

Self

Consider how Moses responded when God called him to deliver the two million Hebrews out of Egyptian slavery. What did Moses focus on?

Inabilities in self.

Something was obviously wrong with Moses' response, since the next verse says, "Then God's anger was kindled against Moses." Some people might think that Moses was being humble when he felt inadequate for this important task, but in what three ways was Moses actually exalting himself?

1) Smarter than God
2) Trusting himself and his abilities
3) Thinking only of himself

Which of the following are based on pride?
Superiority complexes
Inferiority complexes

Both; because they both cause our minds to be on ourselves.

Real humility is not thinking less of ourselves; it is thinking of \____.

ourselves less

As you read 1 Peter 5:6-7, what relationship do you see between anxiety and pride?

Anxiety is pride; we choose to handle problems ourselves

We will have difficulty entrusting our cares to God until we realize that

a) God cares for us.
b) God's will is better than our own.

Because God never commands us to do something that we can't do, all cares can be \_____ on Him.

cast

According to Philippians 2:3-4, God says we're proud when we fail to do what two things?

1) Count others more important than ourselves.
2) Look not only on our interests but others.

In John 15:11-12 Jesus reveals the secret of how to have His joy. What is it?

Loving one another.

Proverbs 22:9 says, "He who has a bountiful \_____ will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor."

eye

Sometimes gloom captures people's hearts in the form of depression, loneliness, or boredom. What does Isaiah 58:10 say will happen to this "gloom" if these people "pour themselves out for the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted"?

"Your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday."

In the illustration about the depressed young man in Dallas who went to speak with his pastor, how was he freed from his long-term depression?

He finally got his focus on somebody other than himself.

Loneliness is caused by adopting the wrong goal. We are seeking to \___ \______. We want to make friends so that we won't be lonely anymore.

be loved

The problem is that our goal is to meet \____ \________, to alleviate our own pain.

our own need

Many people think they are lonely because they are not loved. But what did Samuel Shoemaker say was the true cause of loneliness?

We are not lonely because we are not loved, but because we do not love.

I Timothy 2:9 contains God's beauty secret for women. Women should adorn themselves with what?

Women should adorn themselves by good deeds.

What should a lonely person do if he feels emotionally unable to love others because he sees himself as an empty cup--one in need of filling? After all, how can you give away what you don't have?

"We love because He first loved us."
(Affirm that his need for love is already met in Jesus Christ)

Jesus "did not come to be served, but to \______" (Matthew 20:28).

serve

When we suffer with stage fright, what wrong goal have we adopted?

Either to impress or to avoid humiliation.

What is the cure for stage fright?

Lay down our own reputation to seek the benefit of the audience.

Paul's humility impacted his public speaking and gave birth to his boldness. Fill in the blank below and ponder the goal Paul adopted.
Acts 20:18-20 You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility...; how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was \___________.

profitable

What does Arthur Holmes say is the reason God made work in the first place?

Work is an opportunity to love people by serving them.

What did the psychologist pay the lumberjack to do (at twice his normal daily rate)?

Hit a tree with an axe handle.

According to Nehemiah 8:10, what gives people supernatural strength?

The joy of the Lord.

Refer back to the question above. What can people do in order to experience that kind of "divine energization" while they work? In other words, what transforms work from drudgery to joy?

Love

Jesus said to pray that God's will would be done "on earth, \__ \__ \___ in heaven."

as it is

"Because God \__ \___, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us" (Deuteronomy 1:27).

was angry

The Hebrews went through ten trials on their way to the promised land. The Bible tells us exactly why they flunked each of the ten tests:

2 Corinthians 5:10

"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."

When the two fish were first put into the same tank, why did the big fish not eat the little fish?

Because there was a pain of glass between the big fish and the little fish, and the big fish gave up after smashing his face over and over again.

At the end of the experiment, the big fish did not eat the little fish because

He was convinced he couldn't do it no matter how hard he tried.

Why did four of the original gorillas pull the newcomer off the ladder?

Because the four original gorillas believed the the bananas were still electrified.

After all five of the original gorillas had been replaced by other gorillas

The gorillas who had never been shocked did not ascend the latter because they had been taught to be helpless.

In 1954 Roger Bannister became the first runner in history to break the four-minute mile. Afterwards, what happened?

During the next three years, fifteen more runners did it.

According to this article, what prevented runners from breaking the four-minute mile before Roger Bannister accomplished it?

A thought can limit you and keep you from reaching your potential, even if the thought isn't true.

Why did some students do poorly when they flipped over the first piece of paper?

They received words that were impossible to solve.

Why did some students do poorly when they flipped over the third piece of paper?

Because they expected to fail.

When the teacher told the truth to the students who were feeling hopeless

The truth changed how they were thinking and how they were feeling.

The dogs that pressed the lever in order to stop the electric shocks could be described as:

Friendly and energetic.

When the dogs that received escapable shocks in the first experiment were brought into the second experiment, what did they do?

They figured out how to stop the horrible noise by jumping into the other box.

When the dogs who received inescapable shocks in the first experiment were brought into the second experiment, what did they do?

They assumed they were helpless, and many just laid down and whimpered.

What did Donald Hiroto (the 30-year-old graduate student) do that had not been done previously?

Hiroto set up experiments with people parallel to what had been done with the dogs.

According to this article, how do people sow "the Seeds of Hopelessness" into their own hearts?

By assuming their helplessness will last forever and will affect many areas.

According to this article, which of the following is likely to result when depression descends on the people who believe their actions are futile?

a) Small obstacles seem like insurmountable barriers
b) They give up easily when impeded
c) They don't think very well and are inattentive
ALL OF THE ABOVE

According to this article, when second graders flunk a math test, what is true about those who DON'T give up?

They don't quit and try a new approach to improve their performance on the next test.

The following letters represent words that express how a person can conquer Learned Helplessness.
A, B, C, D, E. What do these letters represent?

A - Adversity
B - Belief
C - Consequence
D - Disputation
E - Energization

Which letter includes how people "feel" about the adversity they encounter?

C - Consequence

Which letter is associated with lies taking root in people's minds?

B - Belief

Which letter is most closely associated with a resurgence of hope?

E - Energization

Which letter is most closely associated with counteracting a lie in order to defeat the Learned Helplessness that comes from the lie?

D - Dispution

What relationship do you see between deception and pride? In what way does pride make people more susceptible to deception?

Deceiving themselves by believing they are always right, never questioning themselves

What are three common thinking distortions (mentioned in this article) in which people give "fact status" to the assumptions they make?

1) Fortune Telling
2) Mind-Reading
3) Labeling

The big fish assumes he'll never be able to eat the little fish. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune Telling; labeling himself as permanently incapable.

The man assumes the woman who says she has a prior commitment doesn't really want to go out with him. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Mind-Reading

After hearing the woman's answer, the same young man begins to doubt himself and he assumes he is unattractive to women in general. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Mind-Reading; labeling himself as permanently unattractive.

The gorillas assume the bananas will always be electrified. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune telling

Before Roger Bannister ran a 4-minute mile, the experts said the human body wasn't made to go that fast. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Labeling

An elephant believes he'll never be able to pull the stake out of the ground. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune Telling; labeling himself as permanently incapable.

A person says "I'll never find a job." Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Fortune telling

An 18-year old student becomes convinced he is "by nature a lazy person," and then he flunks out of college. Which of the three types of distorted thinking is this?

Labeling

During the wilderness temptation period, how did Jesus respond to Satan's "flaming darts"?

He responded to each attack with the words "It is written." Lies have no power over someone who knows the truth.

If truth sets free, what causes the bondage that exists in people's lives?

The bondage will remain in us exactly as long as that dart remains in us (i.e. as long as we believe the lie).

How do we as believers protect ourselves from "flaming darts"?

We must learn how to use the shield of faith. Using the shield of faith means that once you see the truth in a given area, you refuse to accept thoughts that contradict the truth.