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According to Freud, which part of the personality wants immediate gratification for sexual and aggressive desires?
ego
According to Freud, which part of personality interacts with reality?
superego
Because you skipped class, you begin to feel guilty. According to Freud which part of your personality contains morals and values and is responsible for guilt?
The thoughts, wishes, feeling in which we are unaware of.
According to Freud, the unconscious is
Striving for superiority and the potential for personal growth.
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personalty focuses on everything except…
repression
A person experiences abuse and later on cannot remember. What is that called?
reaction formation
Parents who disguise hostility toward their children as being overly protective and loving are using the _________________ ego defence mechanism.
rationalization
After his wife leaves him, a man claims he will not find love. What ego defensive mechanism use self serving explanations to alleviate anxiety?
displacement
Man experiences hostile behaviour towards boss, but goes home and yells to his wife. What ego defence mechanism is that?
patients report their thoughts, mental images, and feelings to the psychoanalyst.
What is free association?
fixation
Which of the following conditions may result from the excessive frustration of needs during psychosexual development?
phallic
Which psychosexual stage do boys posses an erotic desire for their mother?
identification
The successful resolution of the Oedipus complex during psychosexual development involves the child’s use of the defense mechanism of…
Thematic Appreciation Test
Psychologist shows a picture of a man standing next to an older woman. He asks you to tell a story about the picture. What type of test is this?
offers a sexist view of women
Freud’s theory has been criticised by contemporary researchers because it…
the desire to fulfill our human potential and pursue the actualising tendency
In contrast to Freud, the humanistic psychologists contend that basic motivation for humans are…
the diagnoses is subjective and involves social and cultural judgments.
In class we discussed the criteria used in making diagnoses of mental illness. What conclusion may be drawn from this discussion?
irrational, uncontrollable and disruptive.
In contrast to normal anxiety, pathological anxiety is….
when one source of anxiety is removed, another one takes its place
Individuals suffering from generalised anxiety disorder experience free-floating anxiety. What does this mean?
specific phobia
A student has an exaggerated fear of spiders. What is that called?
threats to our survival during our evolutionary history.
People are more likely to develop phobias or fears towards things that were…
classical conditioning
A student has a fear of heights because he fell off a high place as a kid. His fear results from…
obsessive-compulsive disorder
A person who has recurring thoughts of contamination, washes hands 20 times a day suffers from what?
compulsions
What term refers to repetitive behaviours that a person must engage in to avoid severe anxiety, such as checking the alarm clock dozens time daily?
post-traumatic stress disorder
A man still experiences anxiety years later after being attacked. What does he suffer from?
women are twice as likely to be diagnosed then men
Which statement is accurate concerning the prevalence of major depressive disorder?
bipolar disorder
The psychological disorder characterised by separate episodes of depression and mania is…
extreme euphoria, hyperactivity, and inflated self-esteem
The key symptoms of a manic episode include…
genetic factors influence the likelihood of major depressive disorder
If one member of an identical pair has depression, it is likly the other one has it too. This means…
cyclothymic disorder
Some people suffer from milder but chronic form of bipolar in which they experience mood swings for two years of longer. This is called…
hallucinations
A patient complains he hears evil voices. What is that known as?
delusions of reference
A patient believes a foreign government is trying to communicate with him. The patient is experiencing…
negative symptom
The lack of emotional expressiveness or flat effect is known as…
negative thinking and feeling of hopelessness
Which of the following has not been proposed as a factor associated with the causes of schizophrenia?
they often vary across cultures
Which statement is accurate concerning the symptoms and prevalence of schizophrenia?
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