Exam 40: Psychodynamic Theories

The defense mechanism by which people disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others is called

Carl Jung referred to a shared reservoir of memory traces from our species history as the

Right-hemisphere activity enables a split-brain patient's left hand to carry out instructions the patient cannot verbalize. This best illustrates the importance of

When 2-year-old Matthew was told he would get no dessert until he finished the food on his plate, he threw his plate on the floor in a temper tantrum. Freud would have suggested that Matthew was unable to resist the demands of his

Gene spends a good deal of time bragging about his numerous sexual exploits. Freud would have suggested that Gene is fixated at the ________ stage.

Freud suggested that the remembered events and images in our dreams were a censored expression of the dream's

According to Freud, the component of personality that seeks to reconcile the demands of the id, superego, and reality is the

Projective tests such as the Rorschach inkblot test have been criticized because

Freud suggested that a boy's identification with his father during the phallic stage illustrates the process of

Hermann Rorschach introduced what has become the most widely used ________ test.

Freud's theory of personality has been criticized because it

While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce, he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades. A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is his or her

Neo-Freudian personality theorists were most likely to disagree with Freud about the importance of

Subliminal stimuli can briefly prime our responses to subsequent events. This best illustrates the importance of

According to Freud, the unconscious is

Alfred Adler was a neo-Freudian who proposed the concept

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the

According to Freud, ________ is the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their ________.

Neo-Freudians such as Adler and Horney believed that