Question 1

Object relations theory continues to be more popular in the _______ than it is in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) United Kingdom 
B) China 
C) Germany 
D) Sweden

Question 2

In contrast to Freud,Klein believed that the superego

Accepted Answer

A) emerged during adolescence. 
B) grows out of the Oedipus complex. 
C) precedes the development of the ego. 
D) is much more harsh and cruel.

Question 3

Klein believed that the male Oedipus complex is resolved mostly when the boy

Accepted Answer

A) identifies with his father and adopts a feminine position with his mother. 
B) identifies with his mother and adopts a feminine position with his father. 
C) adopts a masculine position toward both parents. 
D) establishes positive relationships toward both parents.

Question 4

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 5

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

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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

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 7

Bowlby's attachment theory was based on studies of

Accepted Answer

A) infants and primates. 
B) adolescents. 
C) middle-age adults. 
D) elderly adults.

Question 8

Research by Hazan and Shaver found that people whose adult love relationships include trust,closeness,and positive emotions had which early childhood attachment style?

Accepted Answer

A) neurotic symbiotic 
B) insecure 
C) secure 
D) anxious-avoidant

Question 9

According to Klein,the person or part of a person through which the aim of an instinct is satisfied is called

Accepted Answer

A) an object. 
B) an impetus. 
C) the source. 
D) a motivator.

Question 10

According to Klein,the child's first model for interpersonal relations is the

Accepted Answer

A) breast. 
B) mother. 
C) father. 
D) self.

Question 11

Klein's conception of a "position" is different from "stage of development" in that "positions" are

Accepted Answer

A) completely psychological. 
B) due largely to social influences. 
C) determined by chronological age. 
D) not referring to periods of time.

Question 12

to research the impact of childhood trauma and abuse on adult object relational functioning was the -

Accepted Answer

A) MMPI 
B) TAT 
C) EPI 
D) MBTI

Question 13

According to Bowlby,both humans and other primates experience separation anxiety.The stage unique to humans is the ______ stage.

Accepted Answer

A) detachment 
B) protest 
C) attachment 
D) despair 
E) anal

Question 14

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 15

The aim of Kleinian therapy is to

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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.

Question 16

Klein claimed that infants use the paranoid-schizoid position to

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A) strengthen their attachments with their respective mothers. 
B) escape from reality. 
C) fight off threats from older siblings. 
D) control the good breast and fight off its persecutors.

Question 17

Mahler's principal concern was with

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A) the psychological birth of the child. 
B) the effects of the Oedipus complex on psychological health. 
C) the child's symbiotic relationship with the father. 
D) narcissistic needs of infants.

Question 18

According to Klein,infants use splitting as a means of

Accepted Answer

A) controlling conscious fantasies. 
B) destroying the bad breast. 
C) gaining control over their parents by dividing them against one another. 
D) controlling good and bad aspects of themselves.

Question 19

According to Klein,the phantasies of an infant are

Accepted Answer

A) of little importance. 
B) mostly conscious. 
C) unconscious. 
D) none of these.

Question 20

If a hungry infant cries and kicks,Klein would say that it is

Accepted Answer

A) motivated by the death instinct. 
B) inventing a sign language to communicate distress with its mother. 
C) fantasizing about kicking or destroying the "bad" breast. 
D) engaging in random behavior.

Exam 5: Klein: Object Relations Theory