Question 1

Male and female superego development are different, according to Freud, because

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A)   fathers usually spend little time at home.
B)   girls usually have better language skills than boys.
C)   parents usually want to have a son, rather than a daughter.
D)   boys have penises, but girls don't.

Question 2

In psychoanalytic treatment, the patient is instructed to say only things that are sensible and rational,
in order to practice good ego skills.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

A person who uses projection as a defense mechanism perceives other people as having characteristics (such as dishonesty) that are actually the person's own unconscious wishes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Freud thought that it was normal and healthy for a woman to prefer a career to motherhood.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Defense mechanisms cannot be measured by psychological tests.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Discuss the controversy over Freud's seduction hypothesis.

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Question 7

People with a repressive coping style

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A)   seldom become anxious.
B)   usually outgrow this defensiveness.
C)   use negative emotion as a cue to repress or forget material.
D)   all of the above.

Question 8

During psychoanalytic treatment, buried feelings may emerge from the unconscious. This is called

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A)   cathexis.
B)   catharsis.
C)   free association.
D)   transference.

Question 9

The ego operates according to the pleasure principle.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In the defense mechanism of __________, the person's own unacceptable impulse is instead thought to belong to someone else.

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A)   projection
B)   isolation
C)   identification
D)   reaction formation

Question 11

"Glove anesthesia" has been shown to result from neurological damage.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What is the recovered memory controversy? What does available scientific evidence indicate?

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The recovered memory controversy refers ...

Question 13

The unconscious is least likely to be revealed through

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A)   The interpretation of dreams
B)   Humor
C)   Objective tests
D)   Free association

Question 14

Source, pressure, aim, and object are the four characteristics of instincts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Researchers have used projective tests to investigate each of the following motives with the exception of

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A)   Achievement motives
B)   Affiliation motives
C)   Intimacy motives
D)   All the above

Question 16

Which of the following is not caused by unconscious forces, according to Freud?

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A)   psychosis
B)   dreams
C)   intentional actions
D)   forgetting

Question 17

Freud considered psychosis to be the experiencing of the unconscious in the raw.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In the analysis of Adolf Hitler, Henry Murray suggested that Hitler had higher levels of eros energy
than thanatos energy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

According to Freud's hedonic hypothesis, people seek

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A)   consciousness.
B)   pleasure.
C)   ego.
D)   the opposite-sex parent.

Question 20

Orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy are characteristic of the

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A)   oral character.
B)   anal character.
C)   phallic character.
D)   genital character.

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