Personality

Kristina enjoys socializing with friends and talking with them on her cellphone. Eileen prefers quiet times by herself when she can reflect on her own thoughts. The characteristics of Kristina and Eileen indicate that each has a distinctive

• Fixation

• Personality

• Reaction Formation

• Free Association

By professional training, Freud was a...

• Physician

• Philosopher

• Sociologist

• Literary Scholar

Freud became interested in unconscious personality dynamics when he noticed that certain patients’ symptoms

• resulted from the physical abuse they received from their parents during childhood.

• reflected a loss of individualism.

• illustrated a reciprocal determination.

• made no medical sense.

According to Freud, the unconscious is

• a set of universal concept s acquired by all humans from our common past.

• a reservoir of deeply repressed memories that does not affect behavior.

• the part of personality that cannot process information

• the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware.

Freud believed that __________ are the “royal road to the unconscious.”

• Projective tests

• dreams

• erogenous zones

• psychosexual stages

According to psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that seeks immediate gratification of basic drives is the

• id

• ego

• superego

• Oedipus Complex

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement is the

• Reality Principle

• ego

• id

• superego

Bruce wants to be a loving husband but at the same time wants to express his disgust for some of his wife’s habits. According to Freud, Bruce’s ________ might enable him to partially satisfy both desires.

• self-transcendence

• ego

• superego

• id

Freud suggested that the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas of the body known as

• psychosexual stages

• the big five

• erogenous zones

• Oedipus complexes

Two-year-old Damien frequently refuses to obey his parents. It’s his way of demonstrating independence from their control. Freud would have suggested that Damien is going through the ______ stage of development.

• Phallic

• Anal

• Latency

• Oral