Midterm TOP

Question 1

What is the principal source of frustration during Freud’s anal phase?

Answer 1

toilet training

Question 2

Freud hypothesized that a permissive, accepting attitude of parents during toilet training is likely
to lead to which behaviors as the child grows into adulthood?

Answer 2

generosity and benevolence

Question 3

The classic Freudian anal character possesses all of the following traits.

Answer 3

orderliness

obstinacy
stinginess

Question 4

According to Freud, how is male and female psychosexual development different?

Answer 4

Similar until the phallic stage

Question 5

What did Freud believed as the cause on why boys and girls have a different psychosexual
development?

Answer 5

anatomical differences between genders

Question 6

What is this concept when a boy feels a strong hostility toward his father and sexual love for his
mother?

Answer 6

male Oedipus complex

Question 7

According to Freud, what is the meaning when a girl wishes to be a boy or to have a baby?

Answer 7

It is an expression of penis envy

Question 8

According to Freud, how would you characterize a psychologically mature person?

Answer 8

an ego strong enough to incorporate the superego and ego impulses

Question 9

According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels. Which level is more important?

Answer 9

latent content

Question 10

Freud believed that parapraxes or Freudian slips are

Answer 10

revealed unconscious intent

Question 11

What is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy?

Answer 11

transform unconscious material into consciousness

Question 12

Freud’s enduring popularity is most likely due to what reason?

Answer 12

gift as a writer and emphasis on sex and aggression

Question 13

How can you describe Freud’s concept of humanity?

Answer 13

deterministic and pessimistic

Question 14

Unlike Freud’s psychoanalysis, what is the primary assumption of Adler’s individual psychol

Answer 14

people are mostly responsible for their personalities.

Question 15

What were Adler’s earliest memories concerns?

Answer 15

comparison with his older and healthier brother

Question 16

The death of Adler’s younger brother resulted in Adler

Answer 16

c. deciding to become a doctor

Question 17

What was the cause of Adler’s break with Freud?

Answer 17

Adler could not accept Freud’s strong emphasis on sexual factors as motivators of
behavior.

Question 18

What was Adler’s response after experiencing the World War I?

Answer 18

He changed his theoretical views.

Question 19

Which of the following assumptions is NOT part of Adler’s theory?

Answer 19

All human motivations for behavior are unconscious in origin.

Question 20

Adler believed that the dynamic force motivating all human activity is?

Answer 20

striving for success

Question 21

Adler believed that people strive for superiority

Answer 21

in order to compensate for feelings of inferiority

Question 22

Which of the following is TRUE about feelings of inferiority?

Answer 22

all individuals possess them

Question 23

According to Adler, what is the behavior of psychologically healthy individual?

Answer 23

motivated mostly by conscious goals and drives.

Question 24

According to Adler, children who feel pampered.

Answer 24

are usually unloved and neglected by their parents.

Question 25

Jade is a 20-year-old college junior who “checks in” daily with her out-of-state mother by e-mail
or telephone. Jade, who makes no decisions without consulting her mother, is a pre-med major
because her mother insists that she become a doctor. Adler would see Jade’s relationship with
her mother as a ________ one.

Answer 25

Parasitic