Question 1

Freud believed that the superego develops from the

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A)  id.
B)  ego.
C)  ego-ideal.
D)  conscience.
E)  preconscious.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

Which of the following distinguishes sublimation from the other Freudian defense mechanisms?

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A)  Sublimation is directly related to the superego.
B)  Sublimation is always destructive.
C)  Sublimation is constructive to society.
D)  Sublimation involves the Oedipus complex.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

Which of the following areas of psychological research have recently joined to provide support for Freud's theory of unconscious motivation?

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A)  cognitive psychology and neuroscience
B)  educational psychology and learning theory
C)  social psychology and neuroscience
D)  clinical psychology and counseling psychology.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 4

Freud's lifelong optimism and self-confidence may have stemmed from

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A)  being his mother's favorite child.
B)  his father's outstanding business success.
C)  the death of his younger brother.
D)  the presence of much older half-brothers.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 5

Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex is compounded, or made more complicated, by the

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A)  latency period.
B)  bisexual nature of the child.
C)  Electra complex.
D)  castration complex.
E)  influence of culture.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

Freud believed that condensation and displacement

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A)  change latent dream level into manifest level.
B)  expand the latent dream level.
C)  are ways of distorting dream content.
D)  expand the manifest dream level.
E)  expand the latent dream level .F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 7

When carried to extremes, which Freudian defense mechanism can become paranoid behavior?

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A)  reaction formation
B)  rationalization
C)  fixation
D)  projectionE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Freud's enduring popularity is most likely due to his

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A)  careful experimental analyses.
B)  gifts as a writer and his emphasis on sex and aggression.
C)  commonsense model of human development, especially during the infantile stage.
D)  determination to reverse 19th-century scientific methods.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 9

Freud called an expression of both the sexual and the aggressive instinct

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A)  narcissism.
B)  love.
C)  superego.
D)  masochism.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

Freud's free association technique evolved from

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A)  Charcot's hypnotic technique.
B)  his use of cocaine.
C)  Breuer's cathartic method.
D)  the periodicity theory of Wilhelm Fliess.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 11

Which statement is correct, according to Freud?

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A)  Repression produces anxiety.
B)  Anxiety reduces repression.
C)  Repression reduces anxiety.
D)  All these are correct.
E)  None of these is correct.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

Freud's three levels of mental life are

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A)  unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
B)  id, ego, and superego.
C)  aim, object, and impetus.
D)  Thanatos, Eros, and Oedipus complexes.E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 13

According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels.The more important level concerns the

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A)  conscious level.
B)  the preconscious level.
C)  manifest content.
D)  latent content.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 14

According to Freud, which of these region(s)  of the mind is (are)  in contact with the external world?

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A)  id
B)  ego
C)  superego
D)  ego and superego
E)  id, ego, and superegoF) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 15

According to Freud, male and female personality development is

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A)  similar until the phallic stage.
B)  similar until the genital stage.
C)  different during the anal stage.
D)  different during the oral stage.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 16

Robin protects herself against the threat of change by constantly clinging to objects and behaviors left from her early childhood.It thus appears that Robin is relying primarily on which Freudian defense mechanism?

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A)  reaction formation
B)  fixation
C)  projection
D)  regression
E)  sublimationF) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

According to Freud, most of our mental life is

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A)  conscious.
B)  preconscious.
C)  unconscious.
D)  a function of the superego.
E)  a product of phylogenetic endowment.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Freud believed that instincts are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

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A)  depth.
B)  impetus.
C)  source.
D)  aim.
E)  object.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 19

The apprehension one feels while in the presence of a teacher is what Freud called _______ anxiety.

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A)  neurotic
B)  psychotic
C)  realistic
D)  moral
E)  None of these is correct.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 20

Freud's notion of the superego includes

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A)  conscious and preconscious levels.
B)  pleasure and reality principles.
C)  the ego and the id.
D)  a conscience and an ego-ideal.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Exam 2: Freud: Psychoanalysis

Freud called an expression of both the sexual and the aggressive instinct

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Robin protects herself against the threat of change by constantly clinging to objects and behaviors left from her early childhood.It thus appears that Robin is relying primarily on which Freudian defense mechanism?

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According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels.The more important level concerns the

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Freud believed that instincts are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

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Which statement is correct, according to Freud?

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Which of the following areas of psychological research have recently joined to provide support for Freud's theory of unconscious motivation?

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Freud believed that condensation and displacement

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When carried to extremes, which Freudian defense mechanism can become paranoid behavior?

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