2024/2025 Psychology of Personality Exam | Questions with Verified Answers
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2024/2025 Psychology of Personality Exam | Questions with Verified Answers According to Freud, which is an example of wish fulfillment? Dreams Which of the following is the best way to think of fixation? In development it occurs when children leave behind some psychic energy tied up in resolving ...
According to Freud, which is an example of wish fulfillment?
Dreams
Which of the following is the best way to think of fixation?
In development it occurs when children leave behind some psychic energy tied up in
resolving a crisis.
Information about where you parked your car or the name of your uncle probably is
stored in which part of the mind, according to Freud's topographic model?
Preconscious
During free association, a patient is encouraged to
say whatever comes into his or her mind.
According to Freud, to make sense of a patient's dream, a therapist needs to
understand the
dream's latent content
According to Freud, each of us is born with a(n)
desire to die and return to the earth.
A man becomes a leader in a crusade promoting sexual morality. A year later the man
is arrested for a variety of sex crimes. Freud might have interpreted the man's earlier
behavior as an example of
reaction formation
Little Timmy is extremely jealous whenever his mommy and daddy kiss and show
affection. Timmy wants to get kisses from his mommy. Little Timmy is in which stage of
psychosexual development?
Phallic
If you see your own unwanted thoughts and undesirable impulses in other people, then
you are using the defense mechanism called
projection.
A businesswoman is upset with her husband. She channels this anger into her work and
increases her productivity dramatically. This is an example of
sublimation.
If Sigmund Freud were to have abandoned his concept of the Oedipus complex, he
would have needed to come up with another explanation for how
the superego develops
, The life instinct to which Freud attributed most of our behaviors is called
libido.
An honors student is caught stealing money from his teacher's desk. The teacher tells
the student to report after school to discuss the incident. However, when the student
arrives later that day, he cannot remember doing what the teacher accuses him of. This
is an example of
Repression
Which statement is true about the superego?
The superego represents internalized standards and values
The ego is found in which part of Freud's topographic model?
conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
A man has a strong unconscious urge to cheat business associates. He complains that
he can't trust the people he does business with, that they will cheat and steal from him if
he gives them half a chance. The man is exhibiting
projection.
Nathan is 37 years old. He smokes and drinks excessively and is constantly putting his
hand to his mouth. What might Freud have said about Nathan?
Nathan had some traumatic experiences during the oral stage of development
In Freudian theory, "libido" is
a finite amount of psychic energy.
Freud used which principle to characterize the actions of the ego?
reality principle
Suppose you use one of the defense mechanisms described by Freud significantly
more than any of the others. If you are a welland productive person, which defense
mechanism would that probably be?
Sublimation
Which of the following is correct about Freud's description of the Oedipus complex?
Resolution of the Oedipus complex leads to the development of the superego
According to Freud, many accidents are
unconsciously motivated.
In Freud's view of castration anxiety, what would be a healthy result for males?
identification with the same-sex parent
Repression is an __________ effort by the ego to push out threatening material from
awareness.
active
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