Deck 16: Psychoanalysis

Question 1

The psychoanalytic movement began to fragment because:

A) Freud's methods were criticized as inadequate.
B) Jung and Adler were jealous of Freud's success.
C) Freud would not accept the possibility of revising his theory.
D) Freud would not accept revision other than his own.
E) Freud became a recluse after he developed cancer.

Answer 1

Freud would not accept revision other than his own.

Question 2

Freud's choice of a medical career:

A) offered the best opportunity for scientific training.
B) was consistent with his desire for a private practice.
C) reflected his opposition to contemporary psychology.
D) was made despite the anti-Semitic climate of Vienna.
E) was dictated by the social climate of his time.

Answer 2

was dictated by the social climate of his time.

Question 3

Freud's method of data collection was characterized by:

A) tight controls.
B) careful induction.
C) group comparisons.
D) definition of variables.
E) keen observations.

Answer 3

keen observations.

Question 4

Freud's method of data collection was:

A) empirical.
B) systematic and controlled.
C) anecdotal.
D) unsystematic and uncontrolled.
E) limited to studies of children.

Question 5

Psychoanalysis, Gestalt psychology, and structural psychology:

A) share a view of essential mental passivity.
B) share a view of essential mental activity.
C) all accept some form of empiricism.
D) share a reliance on conscious determinants of mental activity.
E) all accept belief in inherited, innate ideas.

Question 6

Freud's treatment of Anna O., leading to Studies on Hysteria (1895), was done in collaboration with:

A) Charcot.
B) Bernheim.
C) Breuer.
D) Jung.
E) Adler.

Question 7

Within personality, anxiety is handled by:

A) the defense mechanisms.
B) the superego
C) the psychosexual stages.
D) the Oedipal cycle.
E) the manifest content of dreams.

Question 8

The care of mentally disturbed people prior to Freud:

A) was administered by the Church.
B) was characterized by proper treatment.
C) lacked systematic treatment.
D) provided maintenance and treatment.
E) was dominated by quackery.

Question 9

The modern use of hypnosis as a treatment was pioneered by:

A) Freud.
B) Charcot.
C) Mesmer.
D) Gall.
E) Breuer.

Question 10

Freud's view of personality as an energy system seeking an equilibrium of forces was described as a(n) model.

A) homeostatic
B) field-dynamic
C) empirical
D) unconscious
E) physical.

Question 11

Adler's individual psychology stressed:

A) drive reduction.
B) individual striving.
C) sexual instincts.
D) primordial images.
E) determinism.

Question 12

The superego developed as an assimilation of:

A) primal instincts.
B) defense mechanisms.
C) external values.
D) Oedipal urges.
E) subconscious desires.

Question 13

The primal instincts of personality are characterized as:

A) internal and external.
B) life and death.
C) sexual and emotional.
D) love and peace.
E) oral and genital.

Question 14

Freud's basic methods of investigation were:

A) free association and hypnosis.
B) free association and dream analysis.
C) dream analysis and introspection.
D) free association and introspection.
E) dream analysis and phenomenology.

Question 15

Adler's views offered:

A) a systematic alternative to Freud.
B) a better empirical basis than Freud's.
C) an emphasis on individual life style and creative self.
D) a de-emphasis of childhood and family background.
E) a clearer statement of drive reduction than Freud's.

Question 16

Psychoanalysis evolved through research from:

A) empirical methods.
B) clinical settings.
C) experimental studies.
D) speculation.
E) academic settings.

Question 17

While a student at Vienna, Freud was introduced to nineteenth-century psychology by:

A) Wundt.
B) Stumpf.
C) Brentano.
D) Külpe.
E) Charcot.

Question 18

The dominant methods used by Freud were:

A) case studies.
B) experimental studies.
C) common sense.
D) introspective studies.
E) psychophysical studies.

Question 19

The most active and least empirical assumptions underlying psychology were proposed by:

A) Wundt.
B) Köhler.
C) Lewin.
D) Freud.
E) Horney.

Question 20

Neurotic anxiety is a fear of:

A) real danger.
B) personality disintegration.
C) punishment for expressive impulsive desires.
D) the conscience through guilt or shame.
E) sexual and aggressive instincts.

Question 21

Horney saw the problems of the individual in terms of:

A) adaptation to industrialized society.
B) seeking an equilibrium in instinctual gratification.
C) the resolution of the psychosexual stages.
D) coping with inferiority.
E) recognizing archetypal inheritance.

Question 22

Sullivan called "propelling social relationships":

A) valences.
B) moving toward.
C) vectors.
D) dynamics.
E) instincts.

Question 23

Fromm's views on drive reduction were based on:

A) biological needs.
B) biological and security needs.
C) neurotic needs.
D) instincts.
E) cultural heritage.

Question 24

Jung's redefinition of libidinal energy focused on:

A) eros-thanatos.
B) superiority-inferiority.
C) physical-spiritual.
D) moving toward-moving away.
E) introversion-extroversion.

Question 25

A unique contribution of psychoanalysis is its view on:

A) drives.
B) needs.
C) instincts.
D) emotions.
E) the unconscious.

Question 26

Jung's views on common ancestry shared by racial and ethnic groups were contained in his unique proposal for the:

A) complexes.
B) self.
C) personal unconscious.
D) animus/anima.
E) collective unconscious.

Question 27

The "modes of activity" for Horney are used in:

A) dynamics of modern social change.
B) psychosexual stages.
C) defense mechanisms.
D) coping with inferiority.
E) neurotic needs.

Question 28

Jung held:

A) a deep appreciation for empiricism.
B) a belief in a spiritual soul.
C) an emphasis on childhood determinacy.
D) an analytical approach to conscious elements.
E) the position of fictional finalism.

Question 29

Sullivan's views may be interpreted as reflecting both:

A) Freud and Jung.
B) Freud and Lewin.
C) Freud and Köhler.
D) Freud and Brentano.
E) Freud and James.

Question 30

Psychoanalysis differs primarily from other systems of psychology in terms of:

A) subject matter.
B) methodology
C) assumptions.
D) conclusions.
E) consciousness.