Learning Check: Jung

Question 1

True or False: The personal unconscious in Jungian theory is comparable to the unconscious in Freudian theory.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

To Jung, the two basic attitudes are

a. thinking and feeling
b. conscious and unconscious
c. sensing and feeling
d. introversion and extraversion

Answer 2

d. introversion and extraversion

Question 3

Which Jungian archetype includes the other archetypes and represents wholeness or completion?

a. self
b. shadow
c. persona
d. ego

Answer 3

a. self

Question 4

True or False: 4. When people rely too heavily on the conscious, to the exclusion of the unconscious, they become shallow and unbalanced.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: Jung’s most distinctive and controversial concept is that of a collective unconscious.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

According to Jung, when a personal experience corresponds to a latent primordial image.

a. an instinct is discharged
b. self-realization and individuation occur.
c. psychotic behavior intensifies.
d. an archetype is activated.

Answer 6

d. an archetype is activated.

Question 7

True or False: Both Jung and Freud underwent a personal crisis and a profound change during their late 30s or early 40s. In contrast to Freud, Jung began his self-analysis as a reaction to his father’s death.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Jung claimed that both archetypes and instincts

a. are consciously determined.
b. Impel an individual to act.
c. are learned during infancy.
d. represent physiological drives.

Answer 8

b. Impel an individual to act

Question 9

The first test of a person’s courage, according to Jung, is to

a. recognize the animus.
b. realize the shadow.
c. submit one’s self to the ego.
d. recognize one’s inheritance.

Answer 9

b. realize the shadow.

Question 10

True or False: According to Jung, a complex is the part of the personality turned toward the outside world

Answer 10

False

Question 11

According to Jung, the achievement of consciousness by our distant ancestors is reflected in the hero’s

a. conquest of darkness.
b. superhuman strength
c. tragic flaw.
d. divine birth.

Answer 11

c. tragic flaw.

Question 12

Which of these people is most likely to represent Jung’s hero archetype?

a. a frightened person who overcomes fear to save another person from harm
b. a woman who overcomes her animus and thus becomes more desirable to men
c. a man who overcomes his anima and thus becomes more desirable to women
d. an immortal person who fights to keep another person from harm

Answer 12

d. an immortal person who fights to keep another person from harm

Question 13

In Jungian theory, the ego

a. is the center of consciousness.
b. develops after individuation.
c. is completely unconscious.
d. has the same characteristics as the self.

Answer 13

a. is the center of consciousness

Question 14

Jung believed that psychologically healthy people would

a. identify with their persona and use it as a guideline for effective interpersonal relations.
b. have no persona.
c. use their persona as a shield against self-realization.
d. recognize their persona but not confuse it with the self.

Answer 14

d. recognize their persona but not confuse it with the self.

Question 15

According to Jung, individuation, or self- realization,

a. involves replacing the ego with the self.
b. is a common occurrence among young people.
c. requires inflating the ego.
d. develops one function exclusively.

Answer 15

a. involves replacing the ego with the self.