This kit is intended for students taking up the course,Theories of Personality and for Psychology students/graduates preparing for their licensure examination.
Direction: On the line before each item, write the letter of the correct answer.
________51. Fromm believed that people who use conformity as a mechanism of escape
A. lack authenticity and individuality.
B. often behaves in a stiff, predictable manner.
C. loses their identity as a unique person.
D. all of these.
________52. For Fromm, positive freedom consists of
A. conforming to society's rules.
B. choosing to accept authoritarianism.
C. doing what one wishes and with no regard for others.
D. spontaneously expressing emotional potentialities.
________53. A soldier may say that he is fighting for love of country but in reality he is
neurotically striving to overcome the feelings of powerlessness and isolation that threatens him.
In Fromm’s theory, what mechanism is used by the soldier?
A. Automaton conformity
B. Destructiveness
C. Authoritarianism
D. Displacement
________54. According to Fromm, the exploitative character, like the receptive character,
A. is a productive orientation.
B. achieves positive freedom.
C. seeks to preserve that which has already been obtained.
D. sees the source of good as outside himself or herself.
________55. Fromm used the term "necrophilia" to refer to
A. a sexual perversion involving contact with animals.
B. an irrational desire to die.
C. a sexual perversion involving contact with a corpse.
D. any attraction to death.
________56. Tracy perceives everything that belongs to her as valuable and everything that
belongs to others as having little value. Fromm would say Tracy is suffering from
, A. necrophilia.
B. malignant narcissism.
C. incestuous symbiosis.
D. moral hypochondriasis.
________57. Lorilee, a college junior, is extremely dependent on her mother to make both major
and minor decisions for her. According to Fromm, Lorilee's behavior is characterized by
A. necrophilia.
B. moral hypochondriasis.
C. incestuous symbiosis.
D. malignant narcissism.
________58. Erikson's theory may be called "post-Freudian" because
A. he rejected Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality.
B. Freud personally approved of Erikson's personality theory.
C. he built his theory on foundations that Freud laid.
D. he only accepted the theories of post-Freudian psychoanalysts.
________59. Erikson's additions to Freudian theory included
A. elevating social factors above biological factors.
B. discounting the ego in personality development.
C. accepting Jung's idea of the collective unconscious.
D. all of these.
________60. Freud's anal stage of development has a parallel in Erikson's ______ stage.
A. infancy
B. toddler
C. early childhood
D. phallic
________61. According to Erikson, what is necessary for proper adaptation?
A. syntonic elements only
B. dystonic elements only
C. both syntonic and dystonic elements
D. neither syntonic nor dystonic elements
________62. The resolution of the crisis of early childhood results in Erikson's basic strength of
A. trust.
B. love.
C. will.
D. purposefulness.
________63. Freud's phallic stage of psychosexual development parallels Erikson's
____________ stage.
A. play age
B. early childhood
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