Psychology - Personality and Abnormal Psychology

The founder of psychoanalysis was

• Carl Jung.
• Carl Rogers.
• Karen Horney.
• Sigmund Freud.

The correct list of Freud's psychosexual stages is:

• conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
• id, ego, and superego.
• infancy, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, and adult.
• oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

Carl Jung thought that all humans shared a reservoir of memories called the:

• superego.
• psychodynamic mind.
• self-actualized area.
• collective unconscious.

The psychoanalytic technique that involves asking a person to relax and say whatever is on his mind without censoring himself is called:

• Freudian slips.
• unconscious speaking.
• free association.
• defense mechanisms

Which of the following correctly lists Maslow's hierarchy of needs from the lowest need to the highest?

• physiological, belongingness, safety, esteem, self-actualization
• safety, esteem, physiological, belongingness, self-actualization
• self-actualization, esteem, belongingness, safety, physiological
• physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, self-actualization

The humanistic perspective emphasizes the importance of:

• free association.
• projective tests.
• fulfilling one's potential.
• the unconscious mind.

Characteristic patterns of behavior and motivation are called:

• aptitudes.
• fixations.
• projections.
• traits.

All of the following are Big Five personality factors EXCEPT:

• openness
• gregariousness
• conscientiousness
• extraversion
• agreeableness

According to psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the:

• collective unconscious.
• ego.
• id.
• superego.

According to Freud, the part of our personality that mediates demands from the id and the superego is the:

• ego.
• repression.
• self-concept.
• unconscious.