Deck 13: Psychoanalysis

Question 1

The psychoanalytic school differs more (in terms of Muenzinger's eight trends) from the other four schools than these differ among one another.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The hypnotic phenomena studied by Mesmer, Esdaile, Braid and others formed the basis of much of the content of the later Malleus Maleficarum.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Before the 19th century, abnormal behavior in the Western world was often considered as evil and as attributable to the devil.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Emil Kraepelin developed a detailed classification system of mental disorders.

Question 5

Freud's idea of the unconscious must be considered a brilliant, entirely original idea, never really proposed in any form by anyone before.

Question 6

The libido, eros, and thanatos were, for Freud, the primary foci respectively of the id, ego, and superego.

Question 7

In Freudian psychoanalysis, dreams were considered to be the "royal road to the unconscious."

Question 8

Jung's analytical psychology placed more emphasis on the etiological role of sexual problems in psychopathology than did Freudian psychoanalysis.

Question 9

Adler argued that a mature style of life can help adults deal successfully with inevitable childhood feelings of inferiority.

Question 10

Psychoanalysis is essentially the same as clinical psychology and psychiatry.

Question 11

Which of the following can be considered antecedents of psychoanalysis?

A) all of these
B) Mesmer, Charcot, and others who studied hypnosis
C) the Malleus Maleficarum
D) Pinel, with his medical approach to psychopathology

Question 12

Which of the following preceded Freud in suggesting the sexual etiology of neurosis?

A) Charcot
B) Janet
C) Jung
D) Adler

Question 13

Which of the following parts of the psyche did Freud consider as conscious to a large extent?

A) the ego
B) the superego
C) the id
D) the defense mechanisms

Question 14

According to Freud, what is the typical sequence in the development of an individual's psychosexual stages?

A) oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital
B) polymorphous, oral, phallic, anal, genital, latent
C) oral, polymorphous, genital, anal, phallic
D) polymorphous, anal, oral, latent, genital

Question 15

According to Freud, abnormal behavior is

A) on a continuum with normal behavior
B) qualitatively different from normal behavior
C) based on the Oedipus complex
D) caused by polymorphous perverse infantile sexuality

Question 16

Freudian psychotherapy

A) all of these
B) attempts to uncover and "defuse" unacceptable unconscious determinants of an individual's behavior
C) makes extensive use of free association
D) encourages patients to record and report their dreams

Question 17

Archetypes, introversion, and extraversion are concepts in the psychology of

A) Carl Jung
B) Alfred Adler
C) Otto Rank
D) Karen Horney

Question 18

Feelings of inferiority, the will to power, and style of life are concepts in the psychology of

A) Alfred Adler
B) Carl Jung
C) Karen Horney
D) Anna Freud

Question 19

The Neo-Freudian theorists and therapists tended to emphasize

A) ego strength
B) the Oedipus complex
C) the sexual etiology of neurosis
D) the birth trauma

Question 20

Lightner Witmer is credited with establishing

A) the first clinical psychology clinic in the United States
B) the practice of psychotherapy in the United States
C) the medical specialty of psychiatry in the United States
D) psychoanalysis as a specialty in the United States

Question 21

What was the Malleus Maleficarum?

Question 22

What was Pinel's position on psychopathology?

Question 23

What, according to Freud, is the "unconscious mind?"

Question 24

What did Charcot propose is the etiology of neurosis?

Question 25

What is Freudian "free association?"

Question 26

Why did Breuer break with Freud?

Question 27

What is the purpose of the Freudian defense mechanisms?

Question 28

What are introversion and extraversion?

Question 29

What is the relationship between Adler's concepts of feelings of inferiority and style of life?
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Answers to short answer questions for Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis

Question 30

What were some of the antecedents of psychoanalysis?

Question 31

What is "transference" in psychoanalytic theory?

Question 32

Summarize Freud's theory of the libido, eros, and thanatos.

Question 33

What is Freud's "reality principle?"

Question 34

Describe Freud's conceptions of the id, the ego, and the superego.

Question 35

What did Freud mean by "polymorphous perverse infantile sexuality?"

Question 36

What are some of Jung's archetypes, and why did he believe that they are universal?

Question 37

What is the major goal of Neo-Freudian "ego psychology?"

Question 38

Compare and contrast psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and clinical psychology.

Question 39

What is the impact of psychoanalysis on 21st-century psychology and society?