Theories of Personality: Sigmund Freud
1. The id functions to
a. reduce tension
b. avoid pain
c. increase pleasure
d. all of these
Fear of a tangible danger leads to
____________ anxiety.
Obsessive
Psychotic
Reality
Sublimated
The defense mechanisms
are always in operation to some
degree
operate unconsciously
serve to distort reality
all of these
The superego is like the id in that both
strive solely for pleasure
demand blind obedience
derive from physiological needs
are learned
Which of the following is not one of the
three types of anxiety proposed by Freud?
frustration anxiety
moral anxiety Focusing psychic energy on substitute
objects is called
neurotic anxiety
displacement
reality or objective anxiety
reaction formation
When you love someone, Freud would say
your libido is ____ to that person. psychosis
cathected compulsion
repressed Question #10 (1 point)
sublimated The ego constantly tries to compromise
between the demands of
displaced
primary process and secondary
Persons who are afraid of being punished process thought
for satisfying their impulses are suffering
from id and reality
neurotic anxiety id and primary process thought
reality anxiety id, reality and the superego
moral anxiety Question #11 (1 point)
severe regression allucinatory or fantasy experience
concerned with wish fulfillment is known as
The ego-ideal consists of
moral anxiety
the reality principle and its strivings
for the ideal ego. hysteria
ideals and principles the ego has primary process thought
rejected.
secondary process thought
good or correct behaviors children
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learn from their parents.
goals that the ego strives to reach. A person's first experience with fear and
anxiety is the
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birth trauma stop satisfaction of has been repressed out of conscious

conflict between the id and the
superego
prenatal existence in the womb
stress of toilet training
Question #13 (1 point)
A person who won't stand near an open
window for fear of falling is
experiencing reaction formation
in need of a parachute
a victim of moral anxiety
carrying reality anxiety beyond the
point of normality
help obtain quick satisfaction of
postpone, delay or redirect
clarify
Question #16 (1 point)
Freud's name for psychic energy
manifested by the life instincts is
psyche
hysteria
libido
cathexis
Question #17 (1 point)
awareness.
consists mainly of displaced
instincts.
Question #19 (1 point)
Which one of the following pairs is correct?
ego-pleasure principle
id-reality principle
id-pleasure principle
superego-conscience principle
Question #20 (1 point)
Neurotic anxiety results from a conflict
between

Question #14 (1 point) When you love someone, Freud would say id and superego
your libido is ____ to that person.
If Freud's follower Otto Rank is right, you superego and ego-ideal
knew it was going to be a bad day the death instincts
id and ego
first time you were rejected by a superego
sweetheart ego and superego
life instincts
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libido
first time your mother scolded you Question #18 (1 point)
severely Theories of Personality Sigmund Freud Part
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day you were born
was once conscious but cannot
Question #15 (1 point) become conscious again.
The task of the ego is to __________ id GOOD LUCK, PENTAGON STUDENTS! TOP
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Question #1 (1 point) faces a conflict between an id suppression

A boy resolves his Oedipus complex when
he
identifies with this father
reaches adolescence
falls in love with a girl his own age
reaches the age of three
Question #2 (1 point)
A person who is stubborn and stingy may
be an ____ type of personality.
oral incorporative
oral aggressive
anal retentive
anal aggressive
Question #3 (1 point)
impulse and societal demands.
denial
wants to sexually possess the parent
of the opposite sex. reaction formation
shifts the focus of pleasure from regression
anus to genitals. Question #8 (1 point)
all of these The oral stage of development
Question #5 (1 point) lasts from age three to age five.
Freud believed that a girl's Oedipal complex begins after the child is weaned.
was resolved by identifying with her
lasts from birth until about age two.
father.
begins at about age two.
develops during the oral stage.
Question #9 (1 point)
could never be totally resolved.
In the defense mechanism of
involves hatred of her father. rationalization, a/n
Question #6 (1 point) disturbing impulse is attributed to
Infants learn from their mothers to see the someone else.

Freud believed all females suffer from a world as either good or bad during the original impulse is replaced by a
problem he called birth trauma nonthreatening one.

penis envy oral stage behavior is reinterpreted to make it

more acceptable.
phallic foolishness nasal stage
threatening impulse is pushed out of
castration anxiety anal stage consciousness.
puppy love Question #7 (1 point) Question #10 (1 point)
Question #4 (1 point) A person who refuses to acknowledge the A person who has a strong urge to torture
During the phallic stage of development, existence of some external threat is using animals but instead becomes a vocal
the child the defense mechanism of
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member of an animal rights group is an The latency period is a natural time for excessively pessimistic, hostile, and
example of learning because the aggressive.

sublimation anal conflicts are resolved. excessively optimistic and

dependent.
repression sex instinct is dormant.
shy
reaction formation phallic character emerges.
miserly
displacement superego is formed.
Question #17 (1 point)
Question #11 (1 point) Question #14 (1 point)
Which one of the following is the correct
The defense mechanism in which behavior All of the following are defense order for Freud's psychosexual stages of
is reinterpreted to make it more acceptable mechanisms except development?
is
rationalization oral - anal - phallic - genital
rationalization
sublimation anal - oral - phallic - genital
repression
projection phallic - oral - anal - genital
reaction formation
cathexis genital - phallic - anal - oral
projection
Question #15 (1 point) Question #18 (1 point)
Question #12 (1 point)
Each of Freud's psychosexual stages is Sexual conflict during the genital stage is
Castration anxiety defined by a/n ____ of the body. minimized through
develops in adolescence. erogenous zones sublimation
may have played a role in Freud's adolescence development regression
own childhood.
sweet spot catharsis
develops from over identification
with the father. mature sex organ reaction formation

results from the fixation of libido at Question #16 (1 point) Question #19 (1 point)
the anal stage. A person fixated at the oral aggressive A person may be unable to move from one
Question #13 (1 point) stage is likely to be psychosexual stage of development to the
next because the
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conflict in the earlier stage is object compensation

unresolved.
impetus conversion
needs in the earlier stage have been
so well satisfied the person does not want Question #2 (1 point) Question #5 (1 point)
to move on. Research on the defense mechanisms has The method of free association is related to
libido is fixated at the earlier stage. shown that denial
all of these denial is used more by young
children than adolescents. catharsis
Question #20 (1 point) hypnosis
identification is used more by
The Oedipus Complex can develop during adolescents than young children. rationalization
the ____ stage.
there may be a hierarchy of defense Question #6 (1 point)
phallic mechanisms.
The last stage in Sigmund Freud theory is
oral all of these
phallic
anal Question #3 (1 point)
oral
genital A person who gave a gift to a person after
hitting her is engaging in anal
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repression genital
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reaction formation The latent content of a dream is the

GOOD LUCK, PENTAGON STUDENTS! TOP undoing less important aspect of the dream
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Question #4 (1 point)
Question #1 (1 point) memory of the dream the next
The defense mechanism utilized when a morning.
The force that drives the instinct is known person suddenly experiences numbness
as the because of anxiety is overt story of the dream.

source repression hidden symbolic meaning of the

dream.
aim sublimation
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Question #8 (1 point) The tools Freud employed to investigate The development of a resistance in
personality included all of the following psychoanalysis indicates that
Freud's research can be criticized for all of except
the following except the analyst has broken through the
questionnaires. patient's repression.
he made no attempt to verify the
accuracy of his patients' reports. resistances. treatment is proceeding in the right
direction.
his data was not gathered in free association.
systematic fashion. it is time to terminate the treatment.
dream analysis.
his sample of subjects was small and hypnosis will now be required.
unrepresentative of the general population. Question #12 (1 point)
Question #15 (1 point)
he did not look deeply into the Freud's methods of assessment
psyche. According to Freud, the ultimate goal of life
are no longer used. is the
Question #9 (1 point) focus on conscious experience. resolution of the Oedipus complex.
One of the leaders of the neo-Freudian reveal a great deal of repressed
movement was suppression of the ego by the
material superego.
Albert Bandura relied heavily on self-report reduction of tension.
Gordon Allport inventories.
maximization of id pleasures.
Anna Freud Question #13 (1 point)
Question #16 (1 point)
Carl Jung Which of the following is the least
important influence on human thought and Freud believed that personality was formed
Question #10 (1 point) behavior, according to mainly through

The term "psychic determinism" refers to Freud? the development of intelligence,

reason, and logic.
the influence of the unconscious childhood emotion
habits developed through
will power reason experience.
extra-sensory perception unconscious forces a series of conflicts during the first
the scientific method instincts five years.

Question #11 (1 point) Question #14 (1 point) genetic inheritance.

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Question #17 (1 point) interpersonal relations

Morality principle is upheld by the overthrowing Freud's ideas

id instinctual drives

unconscious identification with the father

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superego

Question #18 (1 point)

In Freud's view of human nature, people are

not very admirable.

dark cellars of conflict.

doomed to anxiety.

all of these

Question #19 (1 point)

In interpreting dream symbols, Freud

claimed that steps, ladders, and staircases
represented

social climbing

sexual intercourse.

sexual organs.

flying

Question #20 (1 point)

Object relations theories place great

emphasis on