Unit 10: Personality

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the

• Collective unconscious

• Self-concept

• Id

• Superego

The Oedipus complex is the term used by Freud to describe

• The erogenous zones that are the focus of the latency stage

• The passive dependence of someone who is orally fixated

• Children’s efforts to overcome feelings of inferiority

• Boys’ feelings of guilt and fear of punishment over their sexual desire for their mother

Freud referred to a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage as

• Reaction formation

• Projection

• Fixation

• Displacement

The MMPI is an example of a(n)

• Projective test

• Inkblot test

• Personality inventory

• Self-Esteem test

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) requires people to respond to

• Incomplete sentences

• Ambiguous pictures

• Unfamiliar melodies

• Meaningless inkblots

Four year old Timmy had not wet his bed for over a year. However, he started bed-wetting again soon after his sister was born. Timmy’s behavior best illustrates

• Reaction formation

• Projection

• Regression

• Denial

The defense mechanism in which self-justifying explanations replace the real, unconscious reasons for actions is

• Projection

• Reaction formation

• Rationalization

• Displacement

Freud emphasized that unresolved childhood conflicts often lead to

• Reciprocal determinism

• Fixation

• An external locus of control

• The self-reference phenomenon

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

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

• Erogenous zones

Which of the following techniques was Freud most likely to use in an attempt to discover the hidden conflicts underlying his patients symptoms?

• Factor analysis

• Free association

• Projective testing

• Fixation