PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 15: 1-9 QUIZ

Sigmund Freuds Psychoanalysis

1. The text defines personality as:
a. The set of personal attitudes that characterizes a person.
b. An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and
acting.
c. A predictable set of responses to environmental stimuli.
d. An unpredictable set of responses to environmental stimuli.
2. Which of the following places the greatest emphasis on the
unconscious mind?
a. The humanistic perspective
b. The social-cognitive perspective
c. The trait perspective
d. The psychoanalytical perspective
3. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual stages
proposed by Freud?
a. Oral; anal; phallic; latency; genital
b. Anal; oral; phallic; latency; genital
c. Oral; anal; genital; latency; phallic
d. Anal; oral; genital; latency; phallic
4. According to Freud, defense mechanisms are methods of reducing:
a. Anger
c. Anxiety
b. Fear
d. Lust
5. Neo-Freudians such as Adler and Horney believed that:
a. Freud placed too great an emphasis on the conscious mind
b. Freud placed too much emphasis on sexual and aggressive
instincts.
c. The years of childhood were more important in the formation of
personality than Freud had indicated.
d. Freuds ideas about the id, ego, and superego as personality
structures were incorrect.
6. Which of Freuds ideas would not be accepted by most contemporary
psychologists?
a. Development is essentially fixed in childhood.
b. Sexuality is a potent drive in humans.

c. The mind is an iceberg with the consciousness being only the tip.
d. Repression can be the cause of forgetting.

7. Projective tests such as the Rorschach inkblot test have been criticized
because:
a. Their scoring system is too rigid and leads to unfair labeling.
b. They were standardized with unrepresentative samples.
c. The have low reliability and low validity.
d. It is easy for people to fake answers in order to appear healthy.
8. Id is to ego as ________________ is to ____________________.
a. Reality principle; Pleasure principle
b. Pleasure principle; reality principle
c. Conscious forces; unconscious forces
d. Conscience; Personality executive
9. According to Freuds theory, personality arises in response to conflicts
between:
a. Our unacceptable urges and our tendency to become selfactualized
b. The process of identification and the egos defense mechanisms
c. The collective unconscious and our individual desires
d. Our biological impulses and the social restraints against them
10.

The Oedipus and Electra complexes have their roots in the:

a. Anal stage
c. Latency stage
b. Oral stage
d. Phallic stage

11.
According to Freud, ______________________ is the process by
which children incorporate their parents values into
their_____________________.
a. Reaction formation; superegos
b. Reaction formation; egos
c. Identification; superegos
d. Identification; egos
12.
A psychoanalyst would characterize a person who is impulsive
and self-indulgent as possessing a strong ______________ and a weak
______________________.
a. Id and ego; superego
c. ego-superego
b. Id; ego and superego
d. id; superego

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b.
c.
d.

Jill has a biting, sarcastic manner. According to Freud, she is:

Projecting her anxiety onto others
Fixated in the oral stage of development
Fixated in the anal stage of development
Displacing her anxiety onto others

16. According to the psychoanalytic perspective, a child who frequently

slips and calls her teacher mom probably:
a. Has some unresolved conflicts concerning her mother
b. Is fixated in the oral stage of development
c. Did not receive unconditional positive regard from her mother.
d. Can be classified as having a weak sense of personal control
17. Suzy bought a used, high-millage automobile because it was all she
could afford. Attempting to justify her purchase, she raves to her
friends about the cars attractiveness, good acceleration, and stereo.
According to Freud, Suzy is using the defense mechanism of:
a. Displacement
c. Rationalization
b. Reaction Formation
d. Projection
18. According to Freud, it is because of this defense mechanism that
we do not remember out lust for our opposite sex parent:
a. Displacement
c. Projection
b. Repression
d. Reaction Formation
19. Psychosexual stage that focuses on the maturation of sexual interest:
a. Oral
c. Genital
b. Phallic
d. Anal
20. Is defined as having a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy constantly
striving to satisfy basic drives.
a. Ego
c. Superego
b. Id
d. Collective unconscious
21. Mary, an 18 year old, was just told by her parents she is not allowed to
go on Spring Break with her friends. After hearing this, Mary screams and
throws a temper-tantrum displaying which defense mechanism?
a. Denial
c. Regression
b. Projection
d. Reaction formation
22. Jane hates nursing; yet, she attends nursing school to please her parents.
During career day, she speaks to prospective students about the excellence
of nursing as a career. Jane is showing:
a. Rationalization
c. Displacement
b. Regression
d. Reaction formation

23. Matt scores poorly on a test. Matts states that he knew the material but
the test had too many trick questions and the instructor is out to get
him. This is an example of:
a. Regression
c. Projection
b. Rationalization
d. Displacement
24. Jonathan has a bad day at work and is talked to by his supervisor for his
low performances. When he arrives home he is angry and shouts at his wife
for no reason. Jonathan is using the defense mechanism of:
a. Rationalization
c. Projection
b. Denial
d. Repression
25. Mark C