Freud Basics and Defense Mechanisms

Defense mechanisms are behaviors that an individual might use to cope with an uncomfortable situation or problem.

• True

• False

Refusal to accept reality is what?

• Projection

• Compensation

• Denial

• Regression

This personality type tries  to meet the desires of the id in a way that is socially acceptable in the world. It deals with the reality.

• Selfie
• Id
• Superego
• Ego

In line at the salad bar, Amy was so hungry that she shoved a handful of croutons in her mouth as she waited for the line to move. This is an example of what?

• Freud
• Id
• Superego
• Ego

Much of Freud's psychoanalytic theory on personality is criticized for lacking empirical support. What is one exception?

• The psychosexual stages of development

• The concept of defense mechanisms

• The three levels of consciousness

• The three personality structures

Read the following description and select the defense mechanism it describes:

When you use this defense mechanism, you may kick your dog because you are angry at your parents. 

• Projection
• Repression
• Displacement
• Rationalization

Id is to ego as __________ is to ______________.

• pleasure principle; reality principle
• reality principle; morality principle
• pleasure principle; morality principle
• Identification; Oedipus Complex

Freud and Jung BOTH believed that these were essential to understanding our selves:

• dreams

• parents

• environment

• Oedipus complex

Our psyche is a manifestation of which of these?

• The collective unconscious

• The ego

• The senex

• The crone

It is believed that Freud's theories are reflective of...

• his relationship with his father.

• his relationship with his uncle.

• his strict educational upbringing in Iowa.

• His relationship with his mother.