Deck 11: Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its Successors

Question 1

In Freud's final model of the mind,the agency whose job it is to try to resolve the conflicts set up by the contradictory demands upon the mind is the:

A) Ego.
B) Unconscious.
C) Superego.
D) Id.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In Freud's theory,the dream work consists of which three processes?

A) primary, secondary, tertiary processes
B) displacement, condensation, and concrete representation
C) displacement, symbolization, and repression
D) displacement, hallucination, and resistance

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Partly influenced by his new theory of dreams,Freud came to believe that the "seduction memories" related to him by his hysterical patients were really:

A) reflections of sexual wishes.
B) memories of real sexual mistreatment.
C) musings not to be taken seriously.
D) stories their parents had told them.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The dream content which Freud came to see as closely analogous to overt hysterical symptoms is called the:

A) unconscious wish.
B) manifest content.
C) latent content.
D) repressed content.

Question 5

A draft manuscript,unpublished during Freud's lifetime,which he wrote in 1895 and which gives his model of the mind in neurological terms,is called:

A) Project for a Scientific Psychology.
B) The Unconscious.
C) The Interpretation of Dreams.
D) The Ego and the Id.

Question 6

The cathartic method for treating hysteria was first developed by:

A) Josef Breuer.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) Jean Charcot.
D) Hippolyte Bernheim.

Question 7

The case of Dora:

A) was one of Freud's early successes.
B) helped Freud develop the free association technique.
C) taught Freud the importance of transference.
D) all of the above

Question 8

Which of the following are attributes of the secondary process,in Freud's theory?

A) It is unconscious, and proceeds from abstract to concrete.
B) It is accessible to consciousness, and uses overdetermination-condensation.
C) It is unconscious, and uses displacement.
D) It is accessible to consciousness, and proceeds from concrete to abstract.

Question 9

Freud's self-analysis was especially influential in helping him to first appreciate the importance of:

A) transference.
B) the Oedipus complex.
C) abreaction.
D) both a and b above

Question 10

A theory of hysteria which Freud held for a time,but abandoned when it turned out to be incorrect,was called the:

A) strangulated affect theory.
B) neurological degeneracy theory.
C) false reminiscence theory.
D) seduction theory.

Question 11

Which of the following would Freud see as a compromise response made to conflicting demands made upon the mind?

A) a dream
B) an hysterical symptom
C) a defense mechanism
D) all of the above

Question 12

In Freud's final model of the mind,as presented in The Ego and the Id,conflicting demands upon the psyche are seen as coming from:

A) heredity, environment, and conscience.
B) sexuality, aggression, and the need for self-preservation.
C) family, society, and the physical world.
D) the biological instincts, external reality, and conscience.

Question 13

Freud cited the traits of orderliness,obstinacy,and parsimoniousness as hallmarks of the:

A) oral character.
B) phallic character.
C) anal character.
D) Oedipal character.

Question 14

When Freud found that a "neutral" manifest dream image such as the chemical formula for trimethylamin symbolized a taboo sexual idea,he named the process involved:

A) condensation.
B) overdetermination.
C) displacement.
D) substitution.

Question 15

After Freud had abandoned hypnosis and adopted free association in his treatment of hysterics,the new method helped him to appreciate the previously overlooked importance of:

A) unconscious motivation.
B) pathogenic ideas.
C) resistance.
D) all of the above

Question 16

Freud's theory of childhood sexuality emphasized the newborn infant's:

A) oral and anal sexuality.
B) polymorphous perversity.
C) repressed sexual impulses.
D) sexual purity.

Question 17

At the beginning of his medical career,Freud specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

A) schizophrenia.
B) neurotic conditions.
C) poliomyelitis.
D) organic brain conditions.

Question 18

When Freud visited the Nancy clinic,he saw a hypnotist overcome an example of post-hypnotic amnesia merely by placing his hand on the subject's forehead and assuring him that he would remember. This suggested the use of _________________for Freud's own work on hysteria.

A) free association
B) the pressure technique
C) hydrotherapy
D) the cathartic method

Question 19

In their early work on the nature of hysteria,Freud and Breuer concluded that hysterics suffer mainly from:

A) reminiscences.
B) anxiety.
C) the Oedipus complex.
D) sexuality.

Question 20

Because it considered more than just conscious processes,Freud referred to his general theory of mental functioning as:

A) Psychoanalysis.
B) Dynamic psychology.
C) Metapsychology.
D) Neuropsychology.

Question 21

Karen Horney disagreed most specifically with which aspect of Freud's theory?

A) his "phallocentric" view of female sexuality
B) his general theory of psychosexual development
C) his theory of the female unconscious
D) his theory of female defense mechanisms

Question 22

When Freud delivered his lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University in 1909,they were promoted and publicized by _________,but criticized as unscientific by __________.

A) Titchener; Cattell
B) Hall; Titchener
C) Hall; Zeigarnik
D) Hall; Horney

Question 23

A major figure who collaborated with Freud in developing the concept of defense mechanisms was:

A) Anna Freud.
B) Karen Horney.
C) Bertha Pappenheim.
D) Melanie Klein.

Question 24

Freud theorized that boys and girls experience different psychosexual reactions during the Oedipal phase of development,suggesting that boys experience crucial feelings of ______________whereas for girls it is strong ________________.

A) envy; fear
B) anxiety; envy
C) anxiety; sadness
D) envy; anxiety

Question 25

When a man suffers insults from his boss in silence,then comes home and yells at his wife and kicks his dog,he illustrates the defense mechanism of:

A) denial.
B) projection.
C) displacement.
D) acting out.

Question 26

A book Freud wrote toward the end of his life,in which he discussed some of the philosophical implications of his theories,and took a rather pessimistic view of the future of human civilization,is called:

A) Eros and Civilization.
B) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.
C) Myth and Reality.
D) Civilization and Its Discontents.

Question 27

Freud's conception of the mind implies that the best adjustment one can hope to make to the human condition is to:

A) effect reasonable compromises among inherently conflicting demands.
B) undo most repressions so the instincts can be more fully gratified.
C) learn to get along without childish pleasures.
D) adjust one's values so they are in accord with one's society.

Question 28

Freud's attitudes and writings on women were both controversial and paradoxical because:

A) he believed that men had weaker superegos than women, but also believed that men could be better psychoanalysts than women.
B) he believed that men and women had similar innate developmental processes, but that environmental forces and culture then caused women to have weaker superegos .
C) he believed that women had stronger superegos than men but despite this he supported his daughter's wish to become a psychoanalyst.
D) he believed that women had weaker superegos than men, but also supported their entry into the profession of psychoanalysis.

Question 29

According to Freudian theory,the mechanism by which energy from an instinct is channeled into the production of a useful intellectual product or work of art is called:

A) rationalization.
B) creative regression.
C) sublimation.
D) intellectualization.

Question 30

An academic psychologist who conducted important early laboratory research on a psychoanalytic concept was:

A) Saul Rosenzweig, with his study of motivated forgetting or repression.
B) Karen Horney, with her study of differences between men's and women's dreams.
C) Erik Erikson, with his study of the adolescent defense mechanisms.
D) Melanie Klein, with her study of sexual behavior in infants.