Deck 2: Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud's topographical model of personality included the psychological structures of

A) id, ego, and superego.
B) unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
C) organismic self, self, and ideal self.
D) reality, dreams, and perceptions
E) all of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Avoiding the frustration and/or guilt of inadequacy by not progressing to the next development level of functioning is also known by the term

A) regression.
B) fixation.
C) reaction formation.
D) projection.
E) compensation.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Freud believed that a client who disbelieves a therapist's interpretation is demonstrating

A) unconscious
B) fixation.
C) penis envy
D) resistance
E) progress

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The primary techniques of psychoanalysis are

A) dreamwork and introspection.
B) free association and interpretation.
C) introspection and free association.
D) interpretation and dreamwork.
E) introspection and interpretation.

Question 5

The ability to recall your last meal is an example of experiencing your

A) unconscious
B) conscious
C) preconscious
D) cathexis
E) ego

Question 6

What is longest stage of psychosexual development?

A) genital
B) phallic
C) latent
D) oral
E) anal

Question 7

A person substituting a less desirable but available object for a desired but unavailable object is

A) fixating.
B) regressing.
C) compensating.
D) sublimating.
E) displacing.

Question 8

The opening phase in psychoanalysis typically lasts about

A) 3-6 months
B) 3-6 weeks
C) 3-6 years
D) 3-6 days
E) about 2 months

Question 9

When a person attributes the source of inner anxiety to the outside world, the person is using the defense mechanism

A) Introjection
B) Projection
C) Cathexis
D) Inversion
E) Diversion

Question 10

According to the text authors, transference

A) occurs when the client has excessive, unwarranted, and inappropriate feelings toward and expectations of the analyst.
B) surprises the analyst.
C) is a deterrent to therapeutic change in the client.
D) occurs when the client focuses all attention on himself or herself.
E) usually emerges in the first 3 to 6 sessions.

Question 11

Freud's structural model of personality included

A) id, ego, and superego.
B) unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
C) organismic self, self, and ideal self.
D) reality, dreams, and perceptions
E) all of the above

Question 12

Which of the following concepts was not an influence on Freud's development of psychoanalytic theory?

A) Relativism
B) Conservation of energy
C) Scientific method
D) Positivism
E) Deterministic cause and effect

Question 13

According to the text authors, a drive

A) has a source, an aim, an object, and an impetus.
B) is experienced as a disturbing, unpleasant tension.
C) is activated when a need arises.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 14

The investment of energy in objects of gratification is called

A) identification.
B) cathexis.
C) catharsis.
D) external frustration.
E) internal frustration.

Question 15

A word that describes the id is

A) narcissistic.
B) atemporal.
C) irrational.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 16

Freud's psychosexual stages in order are:

A) anal, genital, latent, oral, phallic.
B) latent, phallic, oral, anal, genital.
C) oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital.
D) oral, latent, phallic, anal, genital.
E) oral, anal, latent, phallic, genital.

Question 17

Personality change in psychoanalysis occurs

A) by becoming more conscious of conflicts underlying one's distressing feelings and self-defeating behaviors.
B) when one is able to resolve all unconscious conflicts.
C) rapidly.
D) with the natural progression of time in the normal course of life.
E) through what Freud called self-awareness.

Question 18

According to the text authors, the appropriately trained psychoanalyst

A) has both studied and undergone psychoanalysis.
B) has empathy, intuition, and introspection.
C) focuses primarily on the thoughts of the client
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 19

Which of the following statements are true concerning libido?

A) Libido is the energy of the death drive.
B) During childhood and adolescence, it resides sequentially in areas of the body called erogenous zones.
C) Libido can be mobile or can be fixated.
D) A and B only
E) B and C only