The psychoanalytic Psychology: Sigmund Freud

As a young man, Sigmund Freud's main goal in life was to become a

• medical doctor with a modest family practice

• landscape painter

• research scientist famous for his discoveries

• therapist treating people with psychological disorders

For Freud, the basic elements of personality are the

• traits

• instincts

• neurons

• temperaments

One of Freud's ideas which difficult to be accepted by his followers is

• libido

• life instincts

• superego

• death instincts

Which of the following pairs is correct?

• superego - conscience principle

• ego - pleasure principle

• id - pleasure principle

• id - reality principle

Which of the following is not one of the three types of anxiety proposed by Freud?

• frustration anxiety

• reality anxiety

• moral anxiety

• neurotic anxiety

Which of the following is the correct order for Freud's psychosexual stages of development?

• phallic - latency - oral - anal - genital

• oral - latency - anal - phallic - genital

• anal - latency - oral - phallic - genital

• oral - anal - phallic - latency - genital

The tools Freud employed to investigate personality included all of the following except

• questionnaires

• free association

• dream analysis

• resistances

Oedipus conflict is experienced at

• phallic stage

• oral stage

• genital stage

• latency stage

The two ways to satisfy id are through

• reflect action and wish fulfillment

• libido and instinct

• pressure of ego and superego

• pressure of reality

When an individual experience fixation at oral stage, it is proposed that the individual would be

• concerned with oral activities like smoking during adulthood

• experiencing electra complex

• experiencing oedipus complex

• displaying castration anxiety