Question 1

The famous test introduced by Hermann Rorschach asks test-takers to respond to

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A)   frightening pictures.
B)   ambiguous stories.
C)   meaningless inkblots.
D)   incomplete sentences.

Question 2

Lee is 45-years-old and has recently become interested in girls.He likes the way they look and wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl.According to Freud,Lee is in the ________ stage of development.

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A)   anal
B)   genital
C)   latency
D)   phallic

Question 3

A major criticism of Freud's theory is that it

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A)   failed to predict behavior.
B)   examined one's state of mind.
C)   endures over time.
D)   was the first to examine the unconscious mind.

Question 4

Freud emphasized that stressful and painful experiences are repressed into the unconscious.But modern research has demonstrated

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A)   support for fixation of repressed sexual desires.
B)   support for the projection of repressed fears.
C)   that high stress and associated stress hormones enhance memory.
D)   support for the displacement of repressed hostilities.

Question 5

According to Freud,a fixation involves the focus of one's energies on

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A)   repression.
B)   free association.
C)   false memories.
D)   an earlier psychosexual stage.

Question 6

Six-year-old Terrance has been watching his favorite cartoon while his father prepares dinner.When the cartoon is over,Terrance asks his father for a new toy fire truck and for sugary cereal for breakfast tomorrow.A psychologist might say that Terrance was ________ to ask for these things because of the toy and cereal commercials he saw while watching the cartoon.

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A)   sublimated
B)   displaced
C)   projected
D)   primed

Question 7

Ingrid is a married woman who pursues sexual gratification by means of kissing rather than through sexual intercourse.According to Freud,this illustrates a(n)

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A)   Oedipus complex.
B)   pleasure principle.
C)   fixation.
D)   projection.

Question 8

Carl Jung believed that the collective unconscious contains ________ derived from our species' universal experiences.

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A)   archetypes
B)   free associations
C)   defense mechanisms
D)   erogenous zones

Question 9

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a(n)

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A)   defense mechanism.
B)   objective test.
C)   projective test.
D)   measure of conscious thought.

Question 10

When she was 4 years old,Inge was sexually abused by her uncle.At 14,Inge felt uncomfortable whenever she saw this uncle but was unable to understand why she felt this way.A psychoanalyst would be most likely to suggest that Inge is using the defense mechanism of

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A)   repression.
B)   rationalization.
C)   regression.
D)   displacement.

Question 11

According to psychoanalytic theory,the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the

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A)   id.
B)   ego.
C)   superego.
D)   erogenous zones.

Question 12

Freud suggested that defense mechanisms protect an individual from

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A)   anxiety.
B)   an inferiority complex.
C)   the collective unconscious.
D)   erogenous zones.

Question 13

Mary enjoys socializing with friends and talking with them on her cell phone.Eileen prefers quiet times by herself when she can reflect on her own thoughts.The characteristics of Mary and Eileen indicate that each has a distinctive

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A)   fixation.
B)   personality.
C)   Electra complex.
D)   collective unconscious.

Question 14

The belief that some distressing physical symptoms made no neurological sense contributed most directly to

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A)   Adler's interest in the inferiority complex.
B)   Freud's interest in unconscious conflicts.
C)   Horney's interest in women's views.
D)   Jung's interest in the collective unconscious.

Question 15

Jordan feels guilty for hurting his younger brother.Freud would have attributed these feelings to Jordan's

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A)   id.
B)   superego.
C)   ego.
D)   collective unconscious.

Question 16

Neo-Freudian personality theorists were most likely to disagree with Freud about the importance of

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A)   the unconscious dynamics underlying behavior.
B)   childhood sexual instincts.
C)   anxiety and defense mechanisms.
D)   distinguishing between id,ego,and superego.

Question 17

Freud thought that the part of a dream we remember is a censored version of

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A)   the Oedipus complex.
B)   a false consensus.
C)   unconscious wishes.
D)   the pleasure principle.

Question 18

The implicit memories that operate even among those with amnesia best illustrate the importance of

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A)   the id,ego,and superego.
B)   defense mechanisms.
C)   unconscious thought.
D)   displacement.

Question 19

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking,feeling,and acting is his or her

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A)   self-esteem.
B)   personality.
C)   reality principle.
D)   defense mechanism.

Question 20

Repression refers to the defense mechanism by which people

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A)   offer self-justifying explanations in place of the real but threatening unconscious reasons for action.
B)   retreat to behavior patterns characteristic of an earlier stage of development.
C)   disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
D)   banish anxiety-arousing thoughts from consciousness.

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