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Sigmund Freud proposed that his patients' disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to ___________.
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sex
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You are quite hungry but don't have a dime to your name. If you were described as "all id and only id'" what would you do?
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Steal a hot dog from the vendor on the corner
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According to Freud, rationality and logical thinking and reasoning are controlled by the ________.
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ego
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Mei is Chinese American. She is very loyal to her family. Her sister lives with her, and she mails money back to China to her father and younger brother. Mei's way of life is typical of someone who comes from a culture that is ________.
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collectivistic
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Steve is extremely uptight and compulsively neat and orderly. According to Freudian theory, he became fixated at the ________ stage of psychosexual development.
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anal
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Which of the Freudian stages of personality development begins around puberty?
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genital
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The unique and relatively stable ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is called ________.
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personality
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According to Freud and his followers, what is the most significant event that occurs during the anal stage of psychosexual development?
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The child is toilet trained.
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What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stages?
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oral, anal, phallic, latency,
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Freud believed that the ________ was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality.
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unconscious mind
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In Freud's theory, the id is to fun as the superego is to ________.
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guilt
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Jeff has to get up early to go to school, but he wants to stay up late and watch television. His parents disapprove of him staying up late, but when they go out for the evening he disregards their wishes and stays up late anyway. The next day he feels extremely guilty. How would Carl Rogers explain Jeff's guilt?
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It results from a psychological conflict between Jeff's personal desire to stay up late and the opinion adopted from his parents that it is wrong to stay up late.
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One of the dangers of taking online personality tests is ________.
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there is no face-to-face contact to help put the results in perspective
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What do Abraham Maslow's and Carl Rogers's theories have in common?
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They believe that each human being is free to choose his or her own destiny.
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According to Carl Rogers, anxiety and neurotic behaviors occur when ________
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there is a discrepancy between the real self and ideal self
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According to Freud's theory of personality development, there are ________ stages that each person must pass through.
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5
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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Ron was mostly ________
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id
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What is Freud's term for the executive of the personality that has a realistic plan for obtaining gratification of an individual's desires?
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ego
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Which personality test relies on the interpretation of inkblots to understand personality?
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rorschach
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For Freud, ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are currently aware are in the ________ mind.
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conscious
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The age at which a baby was weaned would have most impact on the ________ stage.
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oral
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A person's responses to a projective test are thought to reflect ________.
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unconscious thoughts and feelings
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The pleasure principle is associated with which element of Freud's personality theory?
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id
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The neo-Freudian, Carl Jung, suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people called ________.
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archetypes
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In the classic sitcom The Odd Couple, it was amazing that Oscar and Felix got along because Oscar was such a slob and Felix was so obsessively neat. From a Freudian perspective, what could be said about the way these two men made it through the anal stage of development?
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Oscar had an anal expulsive personality and Felix had an anal retentive personality.
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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly ________.
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superego
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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Harry was mostly ________.
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ego
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Carl Rogers believed people question themselves and experience negative effects on their self-concept when they receive ________.
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conditional positive regard
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Which assessment technique requires people to respond to unstructured or ambiguous stimuli?
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projective
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The job of the ________ is to find practical ways for the ________ to get its pleasure needs met without offending the morality of the ________.
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ego, id, superego
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Dan plays the trumpet, is on the debate team, bites his nails, and chews gum. Freud might say Dan was fixated in the ________ stage.
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oral
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Which theory of personality was a direct reaction against the psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspectives?
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humanistic perspective
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According to Freud, the result of conflict between the id and superego is ________.
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anxiety
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According to Karen Horney, men had ________.
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womb envy
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A person's responses to a projective test are thought to reflect ________.
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unconscious thoughts and feeling
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While taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Vince notices that it contains certain questions that are asked several times in different ways. He asks his daughter, who is a graduate student in psychology, why that is. What is his daughter likely to say?
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Some items are used to determine if test takers are trying to "fake" the test by not reading.
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What is one purpose of the validity scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
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to detect tendencies of test takers to present themselves in a favorable light
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For Freud, thoughts and feelings that are well below the surface of awareness and cannot normally be recalled are in the ________ mind.
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unconscious
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Your teacher organizes a debate on Freudian theory. You are assigned to be on the anti-Freud side and, therefore, must point out problems in the theory. Which of the following will be at the top of your list?
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Psychodynamic concepts are difficult to test
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According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. The last stage is called the ________.
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genital stage
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One of the main differences between the psychoanalytic view and the social cognitive view is ________.
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the social cognitive view allows for testing whereas the psychoanalytic view does not
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For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the ________.
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id
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According to Freud, the reality principle is ________.
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the way in which the ego tries to delay satisfying the id's desires until it can do so safely and successfully
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Many have compared Freud's idea of the mind to an iceberg. If that were the case and you were standing on the deck of a ship in Alaska, what part of the mind would you see above the water?
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ego
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Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages focus on several parts of the body identified as ________.
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erogenous zones
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According to Freud, during the first 18 months of life, the dominant source of sensual pleasure is the ________.
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mouth
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Carl Rogers emphasized accepting people for what they are, not for what you would like them to be. This acceptance is termed ________.
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unconditional positive regard
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In Carl Rogers's theory, our perception of our abilities, behaviors, and characteristics is known as ________.
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self concept
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the superego develops ________.
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during the preschool years.
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"What did you have for lunch an hour ago?" Before I asked you that question, the information was in your ________.
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preconscious level
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Sigmund Freud's theory came at a time in history when the predominant attitude toward sex was ________.
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repressed