Exam 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

According to Sigmund Freud,a slip of the tongue:

Repressors tend to have _____ memories of emotional events than nonrepressors.

During the phallic stage,little _____ fall in love and want to have sex with their _____.

The metaphor of a(n)_____ is often used to describe the topography of the human mind.

The term _____ refers to getting stuck in a given stage of personality development.

Which of the following parts of the mind is responsible for upholding social values and ideals and determines what is right and what is wrong?

Miasha is unable to keep her apartment neat and organized.She often complains that her roommates lack cleanliness.She refers to them as slobs and hates them.In this scenario,Miasha is most likely using the defense mechanism of:

According to Sigmund Freud,little girls blame _____ for the fact that they do not have a penis.

Which part of personality redirects energy from potentially problematic and unacceptable outlets into more appropriate outlets?

Diana refuses to believe that her husband has left her.She waits for him at their dinner table every night and insists that he will be back any time.She finds the act of waiting to be more acceptable that acknowledging the fact that he has,in reality,gone.According to Freud,Diana is most likely resorting to the defense mechanism of _____.

José spends most of his time thinking about Sheila,the love of his life.This had led to José neglecting his course work.From a Freudian perspective,José's neglect of his school work is most likely due to:

Sigmund Freud's original theory of instincts was profoundly influenced by:

_____ occurs when a patient begins reacting to a psychoanalyst as if he or she were an important figure from the patient's own life.

Sigmund Freud believed that _____ occurred by accident.

Tracey dreams that a giant panda is chasing her inside a mall.The giant panda is a part of the _____ content of her dream.

According to Sigmund Freud,a child who has a conflict between an urge to bite and parental restrictions during the oral stage is most likely to develop a _____ personality as an adult.

Thinking without logical rules of conscious thought is known as:

The most primitive part of the human mind is the:

According to Sigmund Freud,when a man directs his death instinct into a socially acceptable behavior (like playing football),he is:

Which of the following would most likely be an indicator of the id operating on an individual's behavior?