PSYC 4720-01 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Spring Semester, 1999 – Prof. G.L. Kandel
Pool Questions for QUIZ 1 – February 3, 1999
Chapter 2
1. If a psychologist believes that most of our behavior is not freely chosen, but determined by unconscious motives, that psychologist
A. rejects psychic determinism
B. rejects the psychodynamic perspective
C. accepts the humanistic-existential perspective
D. accepts the psychodynamic perspective
2. Freud's psychodynamic theory is also know as:
A. transference
B. behaviorism
C. psychosexuality
D. psychoanalysis
3. Your psychology professor believes that almost all mental activity takes place unconsciously. Such an opinion would indicate agreement with Freud's:
A. humanistic-existential perspective
B. depth psychology hypothesis
C. belief in the importance of reinforcement
D. hierarchy of needs
4. A person who cannot recall the events surrounding a traumatic event like rape or a house fire is, according to psychodynamic theory, experiencing a process called:
A. sublimation
B. denial
C. repression
D. regression
5. According to Freud, the true, unconscious meaning of a dream is its ___?___ content.
A. manifest
B. subliminal
C. underlying
D. latent
6. Unconscious and perceptual conscious are related to Freud's __?__; id , ego, and superego are related to Freud's ________.
A. structural hypothesis; defense mechanisms
B. reality principle; pleasure principle
C. manifest content; latent content
D. depth hypothesis; structural hypothesis
7. Even though Sean is in his thirties, he is selfish, impulsive, and only concerned with immediate gratification of his desires. According to Freud, Sean is operating at the level of the:
A. id
B. ego ideal
C. superego
D. ego
8. Which of the following operates on the pleasure principle?
A. superego
B. ego
C. id
D. regression
9. It is the Friday before finals week and you are trying to decide whether to study or go to a friend's party. The mind "voice" that argues, "It's been a tough semester; go to the party, have fun, and forget about studying," is your:
A. id
B. ego ideal
C. superego
D. ego
10. Mediation and the reality principle are aspects of the:
A. ego
B. superego
C. id
D. libido
11. The id and the superego have in common that:
A. they both work on the conscious level
B. they both mediate between the ego and defense mechanisms
C. neither represents societal standards
D. neither takes reality into account
12. Which of the following statements about defense mechanisms is false? They:
A. serve to deny or distort reality.
B. are generally used only by those with mental disorders.
C. are adaptive.
D. help to reduce anxiety.
13. Which statement about defense mechanisms is accurate?
A. They serve no adaptive function.
B. They are designed to increase our experience of id fantasies.
C. They cannot be used too much.
D. They defeat adjustment if they are used excessively.
14. A person who fails to use psychological defense mechanisms is likely to:
A. become schizophrenic.
B. lose contact with reality.
C. become very anxious.
D. lack a conscience.
15. ___?____ is the defense mechanism that is the basis of all the others.
A. Repression
B. Displacement
C. Denial
D. Projection
16. A girl whose teachers and friends have yelled at her comes home and screams at her pet cat. She is likely to be using which defense mechanism?
A. displacement
B. sublimation
C. regression
D. reaction formation
17. Marsha is rejected by the top graduate school in her field. She then claims that she did not want to go to that school anyway because the professors were so famous that she did not think she would get enough attention from them. Marsha is using which defense mechanism?
A. rationalization
B. isolation
C. denial
D. projection
18. Reaction formation is a defense mechanism that takes upsetting impulses and:
A. discusses them without emotion
B. projects them onto other people
C. buries them in the unconscious
D. expresses the exact opposite
19. A 5-year-old child resumes bedwetting and thumb sucking shortly after his new baby sister is brought home from the hospital. He is probably using which of the following defense mechanisms?
A. denial
B. regression
C. repression
D. projection
20. Groupies become excessively attached to rock musicians, perhaps to diminish their own personal anxieties. Psychoanalysts would say that groupies use the defense mechanism called:
A. regression
B. rationalization
C. denial
D. identification
21. Which list gives Freud's stages of psychosexual development in correct order?
A. anal, oral, phallic, latency
B. oral, anal, phallic, latency
C. oral, phallic, anal, latency
D. anal, phallic, oral, latency
22. According to psychodynamic theory, Robert, a boy of 4, is likely to experience:
A. castration anxiety
B. no sexual impulses
C. most sexual gratification by retaining or expelling feces
D. a mature sense of loving another person
23. A teen-age girl, who not long ago found boys to have no redeeming value, suddenly becomes very concerned with her appearance and starts flirting. Apparently, according to Freudian theory, she has reached which stage of psychosexual development?
A. oral
B. phallic
C. latent
D. genital
24. When aspects of adult personality are "stuck" in an anxiety-ridden stage of childhood, the pathological process is called:
A. fixation
B. neurosis
C. psychosis
D. anal retentiveness
25. Partial breakdown of ego function leades to conditions called ____?____; complete ego collapse leads to _________.
A. neurosis; psychosis
B. regression; repression
C. fixation; identification