Deck 11: Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory

Question 1

The text says the story of Hansel and Gretel illustrates conflicts at

A) the oral stage
B) the anal stage
C) the phallic stage
D) the latency stage

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which is not a common part of the resolution of the Oedipus complex?

A) identification
B) sublimation
C) internalization
D) restitution

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Freud thought the ego

A) delays impulses
B) includes cognitive functions
C) has no energy of its own
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which defense mechanism is most typically at play in the anal stage?

A) displacement
B) substitution
C) denial
D) reaction-formation

Question 5

A distinctive defense mechanism in adolescence, Anna Freud said, is

A) repression
B) asceticism
C) denial
D) identification

Question 6

In classic Freudian theory, the defense mechanisms

A) operate unconsciously
B) include suppression
C) are the work of the id
D) all of the above

Question 7

Which is not a typical outcome of the anal stage?

A) a person who is very neat and orderly
B) a person who is extremely messy
C) a person who is psychotic
D) a person compulsively checks for errors

Question 8

When we attribute our own feelings to others, the Freudian defense mechanism is

A) displacement
B) projection
C) repression
D) reaction-formation

Question 9

Freud would suggest that a young man's anxiety over competition probably reflects earlier problems at

A) the first stage
B) the second stage
C) the third stage
D) the fourth stage

Question 10

Freud first replaced hypnosis with

A) the interpretation of dreams
B) memory facilitating drugs
C) the exploration of childhood fantasies
D) free association

Question 11

In general, the strongest fixations seem to be due to

A) excessive gratification
B) excessive frustration
C) inconsistent care
D) unconscious fantasies

Question 12

What most puzzled Freud about the girl's Oedipus complex was

A) why girls experience penis envy
B) why girls aren't as open as boys about sexual matters
C) why girls feel a need to resolve the crisis
D) why girls develop a masculinity complex

Question 13

What Freudian agency of the mind criticizes us on moral grounds?

A) the id
B) the ego
C) the superego
D) the repression barrier

Question 14

Clara Thompson said that penis envy in girls is actually

A) a cry for equal opportunity
B) womb envy
C) more valid than women will admit
D) quite pathological