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PYC2601 EXAM PACK 2023
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- Personality Theories
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- University Of South Africa
PYC2601 EXAM PACK 2023
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PYC2601EXAM
PACK 2023
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May/June 2013 Exam Question and Solutions
QUESTION 1
Freud's theory is based on the assumptions that human beings
a) determine their own personalities by the kind of moral choices they make
b) are driven by persistent forces in the psyche which are in conflict with the norms of
society
c) function with the help of energy which is converted from a physical-biological form to
psychic energy
d) try to experience drive satisfaction in a goal-directed and meaningful way
The correct answer is:
1) (a)
2) (b)
3) (b) & (c)
4) (b) & (d)
The correct answer is (3) PB p52, 56
‘Freud believes that the human psyche functions with the help of energy which is converted from a physical- biological
form to psychic energy according to the familiar physical principle of energy transformation.’ Therefore
(c) is correct.
‘According to Freud, the person is caught up in a constant conflict between drives within the psyche and the
demands and norms of society...’ Therefore (b) is correct. The only option that incorporates both (b) and (c) is (3).
Therefore the answer is (3).
QUESTION 2
Freud asserted that the id, ego and superego function on different levels of consciousness.
In view of this contention, which one of the following statements is correct?
1) The id functions on the unconscious level, the ego on the preconscious level and the superego
on the conscious level
2) The id functions on the unconscious and preconscious levels and the ego and superego on the
conscious level
3) The id functions primarily on the unconscious level but also on the preconscious level, and the
ego and superego function equally on all three levels of consciousness
4) The id functions primarily on the unconscious level but also on the preconscious level, and the
ego and superego function on all three levels of consciousness, although not to the same extent
The correct answer is (4) PB p53
‘The id functions almost exclusively on the unconscious level, although it can, at times, make its wishes felt in the
pre-conscious level (in dreams for example). The ego and the superego function on all three levels of consciousness,
although not to the same extent.’
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,QUESTION 3
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In Freudian terminology, cathexis refers to
1) The psychic energy that is transferred onto appropriate objects of drive satisfaction in a way
that makes these objects attractive or desirable
2) A sexual climax
3) The release the ego experiences when it is freed from the conflicting interplay of the id, the
physical reality and the superego
4) The cathartic relief of tension after a long build-up of tension due to delayed drive satisfaction
The correct answer is (1) PB p91
‘Cathexis: the ego’s attempt to establish, on rational grounds, whether or not an object is serviceable’
QUESTION 4
Thabo is faced with the conflict of sexually desiring his best friend's wife According to Freud, the
most effective strategy Thabo could employ to deal with this conflict is to
1) Resist the temptation and repress his drive out of loyalty to his friend
2) Fully satisfy his desire by secretly having sex with his best friend's wife
3) Deny that he has any such desire by becoming convinced that his best friend's wife is actually
quite unattractive
4) sublimate his desire for his best friend's wife by having sex with his own wife
The correct answer is (4) PB p68, 69
‘The most effective form of displacement, and therefore the most effective defense mechanism, is sublimation.
Sublimation consists of finding displacement objects and actions which are regarded by society as culturally
valuable. When a person employs sublimation he or she expresses his or her unacceptable ‘base’ drives in an
acceptable or even valuable way, thereby raising these lower drives to something ‘sublime’.’
QUESTION 5
After the divorce of his parents and the trauma of being left with his penniless mother while his
father took off with his mistress, five year old Johnny, who was toilet trained when he was two,
began wetting his bed The Freudian analyst, whom Johnny's mother consults for help, will most
likely explain Johnny's behaviour as
1) Regression and fixation as a result of feeling overwhelmed by anxiety
2) The repression of sexual feelings towards his mother now that the rival figure of the father is
out of the way
3) The sublimation of aggressive feelings towards the father who left them
4) The projection of castration anxiety in the act of wetting his bed
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The correct answer is (2) PB p74, 75
Although option (1) seems plausible, we have to remember that the analyst Johnny’s mother is seeing, is a Freudian
analyst. Read Freud’s Oedipus complex on page 74 and 75. According to Freud, a boy between the ages of three to
five or six ‘develops sexual desires in relation to his mother and would like to take on his father’s sexual function.
Because his father has a sexual relationship with his mother and because the boy realise he cannot succeed in
replacing his father in a sexual respect, he becomes jealous and even feels acute hatred for his father.’
QUESTION 6
A pastor has a frigid wife who refuses to have sexual relations with him He preaches hellfire and
damnation on everyone who commits adultery. He begins advocating a strict dress code for the
women in his congregation - they have to wear long skirts and high-necked blouses with long
sleeves. According to Freudian theory, the defence mechanism which best explains the pastor's
behaviour is:
1) Regression
2) Identification
3) Rationalisation
4) Reaction formation
The correct answer is (4) PB p64
‘Reaction formation is a mechanism whereby the individual tries to keep a forbidden desire unconscious by
adopting a fanatical stance that gives the impression that he or she experiences exactly the opposite desire.’
QUESTION 7
Freud regards dreams as the royal road to the unconscious because
a) there is no other way that repressed material can be brought to light
b) dreams contain disguised wishes and desires which allow the analyst, by the method of
free association , to uncover the underlying problems
c) during sleep the preconscious censoring of the ego is less effective than during the waking
state, allowing forbidden but disguised desires to break through to consciousness
The correct answer is:
1) (a), (b) & (c)
2) (a) & (c)
3) (b) & (c)
4) (a)
The correct answer is (1) PB p70
Although (a) seems incorrect, Freud believed that ‘dreams result from the repression of desires which, because of
the influence of the superego, can be fulfilled only in a distorted way during sleep .’
Therefore the assumption is that Freud believed that there is no other way repressed material can come to light.
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