Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Perspective

Sigmund Freud is responsible for popularizing many terms we use today like repression, denial, and regression.

• true

• false

Freud used free association (saying whatever comes to your mind) as an alternative to hypnosis.

• true

• false

Freud believed that people should forget about past experiences and focus on the present.

• true

• false

Freud believed that people who intensely dislike someone else actually feel unacceptable love for that person.

• true

• false

Some psychodynamic psychologists test personality by asking people to describe what they see in a series of inkblots.

• true

• false

Freud believed that ____________ provided two ways of studying unconscious wishes or impulses.

• traits and factor analysis

• self-esteem and self-efficacy

• cognition and questionnaires

• dreams and Freudian slips

Freud believed that individuals pass through a series of psychosexual stages during which _____ impulses of a sexual nature find a socially acceptable outlet.

• superego

• ego

• id

• conscious

Freud believed that people who smoke, overeat, or chew gum presumably have had trouble with feeding and weaning early in the ______

• oral stage

• phallic stage

• anal stage

• genital stage

Problems with toilet training during the anal stage may lead to the development of analexpulsive or _______ personalities in adulthood.

• anal-retentive

• Oedipal

• Electra

• humanistic

Freud believed that women fixated at the genital stage symbolically castrate men through embarrassment, deception, and derogation because of ________.

• anal retentiveness

• penis envy

• narcissism

• insecure attachment