Question 1

Mahler believed that children begin to develop feelings of personal identity during which developmental stage?

Accepted Answer

A) normal symbiosis 
B) separation-individuation 
C) normal autism 
D) preadolescence

Question 2

According to Klein, when the female Oedipus complex is successfully resolved, the little girl will

Accepted Answer

A) see her mother as a rival. 
B) fantasize about robbing her mother of the father's penis and of her babies. 
C) adopt a homosexual attitude toward her mother. 
D) develop positive feelings toward both parents. 
E) develop negative feelings toward her mother and neutral feelings toward her father.

Question 3

Compare and contrast Klein's object relations theory and Freud's psychoanalytic theory.

Accepted Answer

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Question 4

Which object relations theorist strongly emphasized the process by which the self evolves?

Accepted Answer

A) Freud 
B) Klein 
C) Mahler 
D) Kohut

Question 5

Klein believed that children introject their mother into their psychic structure.This means that they

Accepted Answer

A) believe that they are inside their mother. 
B) believe that their mother is inside their own body. 
C) reject their mother's authority. 
D) adopt their mother's standards of morality.

Question 6

Klein assumed that infants come into the world with

Accepted Answer

A) an active phantasy life. 
B) a desire to have sexual relations with their mother. 
C) a desire to have sexual relations with their father. 
D) a blank slate.

Question 7

Klein's notion of the Oedipus complex differed from Freud's in that it

Accepted Answer

A) includes fear of parents' retaliation for phantasies of emptying their bodies. 
B) takes place at a later time period during the individual's life than Freud said. 
C) includes hostile feelings only. 
D) includes sexual feelings only. 
E) is the origin of the development of the superego.

Question 8

The aim of Kleinian therapy is to

Accepted Answer

A) resolve the Oedipus complex. 
B) uncover repressed sexual feelings toward one's parents. 
C) reduce depressive anxieties and persecutory fears. 
D) increase social skills. 
E) enhance feelings of self-esteem and self-worth.

Exam 5: Klein: Object Relations Theory