Chapter 14 Theories of Personality Lesson 2: Psychoanalytic The

Sigmund Freud would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

• A. All factors affecting personality have a physiological basis.

• B. The most powerful influences on personality are outside conscious awareness.

• C. Painful episodes of childhood are completely erased from memory.

• D. What people dream about reveals little about their personality.

Which of the following is true about the preconscious?

• A. It consists of thoughts above the surface of awareness.

• B. It can be recalled only with great and extensive effort.

• C. It is between the unconscious and the conscious.

• D. It includes information that is not part of consciousness or memory.

According to Freud, human personality was like a

• A. piano.

• B. typewriter.

• C. bowling ball.

• D. steam engine.

The id would make which of the following statements?

• A. I want pizza now.

• B. I should save some pizza for tomorrow.

• C. I need to get a job so I can buy pizza.

• D. I shouldn't have eaten that pizza.

Which of the following statements is an example of rationalization?

• A. I struck out because of the umpire's bad calls.

• B. I don't care about the game.

• C. I know what the scoreboard says, but did we really lose?

• D. I struck out this time, but I'll get a hit next time.

A person who is projecting would say:

• It's your fault I have a gambling problem.

• I'm going to seek help for my gambling problem.

• I don't have a gambling problem, you have a gambling problem.

• I just won a thousand bucks, my gambling problem is solved.

According to the psychodynamic approach to personality,

• behavior is shaped mostly by socioeconomic factors.

• human functioning results from the interaction of conscious and unconscious motives.

• rewards and punishments direct human behavior.

• basic human character is not shaped until after childhood.

Which of the following is an example of an archetype?

• sublimation

• a forest

• the id

• Superman

Erich Fromm would most likely study which of the following?

• why a girl feels helpless

• why a boy dislikes his parents

• why a young woman joined a cult

• why comic books are popular

Karen Horney's emphasis on environmental upbringing is most similar to which school of personality theory?

• behaviorism

• humanism

• trait

• sociocultural