Exam 3: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Freudian Theory, Application, and Assessment

Describe each stage of psychosexual development in order, giving the approximate age when it takes place and an example of a fixation during the stage. Include in your description which structures emerge and when, according to Freud.

According to Freud, the conflicts that arise during the Oedipus conflict are pushed out of awareness by the use of a defense mechanism called ____________.

A man has the opportunity to cheat his business partner, but he knows that this would be the wrong thing to do in a number of different ways. According to the structural model of Freudian theory, the ____________is what held them man back from cheating his partner.

Three parts of the personality that differ in terms of their level of awareness make up the structural model in Freudian theory.

In 1885, Freud traveled to Paris to study with a French neurologist by the name of____________ . During this time, Freud was first exposed to early versions of hypnosis.

When a patient declares to his or her therapist that the therapy isn't helping and he or she wants to stop treatment, the patient is developing a necessary part of therapy called transference.

Freud and Breuer used which procedure when working with Anna O?

In the interpretation of dreams, Freud called what the dreamer sees and remembers the latent content of the dream.

The refusal to accept difficult, threatening, or painful situations is a defense mechanism that Freud called ____________.

According to Freud, each of us is born with a(n)

Clients in therapy who claim they forgot a regular appointment with their therapist could be displaying a form of

A patient in psychoanalysis suddenly begins to miss his regularly scheduled therapy appointment. When he does make his appointment, he complains that the therapy is not making progress and should be brought to an end. Freud might have made each of the following statements about this behavior except one. Which one?

As you examine the relationship between the structural and topographic models of Freud's theory, the ego is found in which part of Freud's topographic model?

Which of the following came first in Freud's career?

If Sigmund Freud were to have abandoned his concept of the Oedipus complex, he would have needed to come up with another explanation for how

Freud identified each of the stages of development according to

Users of the Rorschach inkblot test point out that projective tests must be used because there are no objective criteria to assess the kinds of unconscious thoughts that projective tests measure. They make this point when arguing against the criticism that there is little evidence for

Five-year-old Maxwell has recently been going through the Oedipus complex. He has been unconsciously resentful of his father because of his father's "possession" of Maxwell's mother. According to Freud, Maxwell fears that if his father learns of these feelings, which punishment will be delivered?

According to the cover of Time magazine at the end of the 1900s, the two greatest minds of the century were

A man has a strong unconscious urge to cheat his business associates, but he complains that he can't trust them because they will cheat and steal from him if he gives them half a chance. This tendency to attribute an unacceptable unconscious impulse onto other people is the defense mechanism called____________ .