History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 7

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Question 1:

Which of the following is not a focus of psychoanalysis?
a) Dreams
b) Psychopathological symptoms
c) Religion
d) Observable behaviour

Question 2:

Who attributed hypnotic effects to animal magnetism?
a) Mesmer
b) Freud
c) Breuer
d) Charcot

Question 3:

What was originally believed to be exclusively a ‘woman’s disease’?
a) Hypnosis
b) Alchemy
c) Hysteria
d) Fixation

Question 4:

What concept originated with Aristotle?
a) The unconscious
b) Catharsis
c) Regression
d) Hypnosis

Question 5:

Which of Freud’s systems contains all those things of which we are not now aware, but of which we could become aware?
a) Conscious
b) Unconscious
c) Preconscious
d) Postconscious

Question 6:

Who provided evidence for the role of preconscious material in dreams?
a) Anna Freud
b) Otto Pötzl
c) Karen Horney
d) Alfred Adler

Question 7:

Which of the following is not part of Freud’s structural model of personality?
a) Eco
b) Id
c) Ego
d) Superego

Question 8:

Which of the following speculations did Freud add to the primal horde concept?
a) That the weaker males in a primordial group might join together and kill the leader
b) That primordial groups are dominated by the strongest male
c) That primordial groups are dominated by the weakest male
d) That the strongest male in a primordial group might kill the weakest males

Question 9:

Adler’s emphasis on ________ draws attention to the dimension of dominance-submission as a particularly important aspect of human affairs.
a) inferiority
b) birth order
c) sexuality
d) power

Question 10:

Anna Freud was Sigmund Freud’s ________.
a) Colleague
b) Wife
c) Daughter
d) Both A and C.

Question 11:

A classic example of ________ is the person who wishes to murder his or her boss but is afraid to express this anger directly for fear of losing their job.
a) projection
b) displacement
c) rationalization
d) raction formation

Question 12:

Carl Jung was trained as a ________.
a) physicist
b) physiologist
c) physician
d) paediatrician

Question 13:

Spielrein became ________’s analyst.
a) Jung's
b) Piaget's
c) Skinner's
d) Adler's

Question 14:

Jung distinguished between ________ and ________.
a) inhibition; exhibition
b) cathexis; counter-cathexis
c) penis envy; womb envy
d) introversion; extraversion

Question 15:

Characteristics possessed by the species as a whole exist within the ________.
a) collective unconscious
b) personal unconscious
c) collection conscious
d) personal conscious

Question 16:

There is an intimate relationship between Freud’s meaning of ‘unconscious’ and the concept of hypnosis.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Until recently, Angell’s distinction between controlled and automatic processes has been largely ignored in psychology.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Charcot specialized in studying hysteria at the Salpêtrière in Paris.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

One of the goals of Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology was to explain the nature of the unconscious in neurological terms.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

What we experience when we dream is called manifest content.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

The phallic stage begins with puberty and the attempt to find a suitable sexual partner.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

The word ‘taboo’ entered the English language as a result of the voyage of Captain Cook in 1777.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Adler dismissed the postulation that birth order could influence feelings of inferiority.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Horney explained penis envy and womb envy.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Jung’s theoretical school was known first as analytical psychology and later as archetypal psychology.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 7