Test 5 Review

The importance of unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences is of most central importance to which perspective?

• Humanistic perspective

• Psychodynamic perspective

• Social-cognitive perspective

• Trait perspective

Chandler cannot recall events surrounding the day her father died. According to Freud's theory of personality, Chandler's memories are stored at the ______ level of awareness.

• Unconscious
• Collective unconscious

• Conscious

• Implicit

When Hafez earned a large amount of money, he was tempted to purchase an expensive new car. He decided, instead, to deposit all the money into a savings account for his college education. Hafez shows signs of a ______.

• weak superego

• weak id

• strong collective unconscious

• strong ego

Annez loves her husband but unconsciously resents his successful career. Her therapist suggests that their marriage would improve if she recognized the conflict between these two feelings. The therapist's belief best illustrates the ______ perspective.

• Trait

• Social-cognitive perspective

• Psychodynamic perspective

• Humanistic perspective

As her parents became increasingly angry toward her, Amity began, with apparent sincerity, to emphatically express her great admiration for her parents. Amity's behavior illustrates most clearly the defense mechanism of ______.

• Projection

• Reaction formation

• Rationalization

• Displacement

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

• Repression

• Displacement

• Fixation

• Projection

Matt reported a dream in which he repeatedly fell off a horse. His therapist suggested that his dream reflected Matt's mixed feelings of affection and resentment toward his father. According to Freud, the therapist was attempting to reveal the dream's

• factor analysis

• latent content

• erogenous zone

• psychological stage

Nine-year-old Jesse is frustrated by his inability to read at the same level as the other children in his class. On the playground, he bullies and teases those who read well in class. According to Alfred Adler, Jesse's behavior is a result of

• an inferiority complex

• repression

• the pleasure principle

• projection

Professor Dominguez believes that spiritual concerns are deeply rooted in our psyche, and that people in different cultures share certain myths and images. Professor Dominguez's belief fits into Carl Jung's

• Ego

• Superego

• Id

• Collective unconscious

Shauna's parental philosophy is to accept and love her children regardless of their behavioral, emotional, and academic problems. According to Carl Rogers, Shauna is giving her children

• self-transcendence

• unconditional positive regard

• the reality principle

• self-actualization