Ch. 5 - Karen Horney

Question 1

something that continually happens to the child which is delivered by the caregiver(s)

Answer 1

Basic Evil

Question 2

a feeling that arises in the kid who has experienced the basic evil; aggression towards the caregiver(s) which is immediately repressed

Answer 2

Basic Hostility

Question 3

taking that repressed hostility and generalizing it to everyone else in the world

Answer 3

Basic Anxiety

Question 4

the self that you were born with; intrinsic potentialities

Answer 4

Real Self

Question 5

objectively existing person, perceived by others

Answer 5

Actual Self

Question 6

a neurotic construction to replace the real self with a wishful, perfect self

Answer 6

Idealized Self

Question 7

compliance, self-effacement, sucking up to people

Answer 7

Moving Toward Others

Question 8

aggression, expansion, everything is a fight/competition

Answer 8

Moving Against Others

Question 9

resignation, detachment, withdrawal

Answer 9

Moving Away from Others

Question 10

person fills as few life tasks as possible to be left alone

Answer 10

Persistent Resignation

Question 11

person doesn’t care about your world, rebels against the structures of polite interaction

Answer 11

Rebelliousness

Question 12

person finds life worthless, extreme apathy

Answer 12

Shallow Living

Question 13

similar to Freud’s projection

Answer 13

Externalization

Question 14

an inability of neurotics to see their own flaws

Answer 14

Blind Spots

Question 15

a defense mechanism in which thoughts and feelings that seem to conflict or to be incompatible are isolated from each other in separate and apparently impermeable psychic compartments

Answer 15

Compartmentalization

Question 16

meeting of such physiological needs as those for water, food, and sleep required for a child’s biological survival

Answer 16

Need for Satisfaction

Question 17

child’s need for security and freedom from fear

Answer 17

Need for Safety

Question 18

person who uses moving toward people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety

Answer 18

Compliant Type

Question 19

person who uses moving against people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety

Answer 19

Hostile Type

Question 20

person who uses moving away from people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety

Answer 20

Detached Type

Question 21

process of self-help that Horney believed people could apply to themselves to solve life’s problems and to minimize conflict

Answer 21

Self-Analysis

Question 22

coming up with an incorrect excuse

Answer 22

Rationalization

Question 23

checking all spontaneity because they are afraid of a trait ‘coming out’

Answer 23

Excessive Self-Control

Question 24

this is the way things are and the only way they will be

Answer 24

Arbitrary Rightness

Question 25

never take a stand on anything

Answer 25

Elusiveness

Question 26

no amount of data will convince you

Answer 26

Cynicism