Exam 5: Karen Horney: Neurotic Needs and Trends

The four self-protective mechanisms that were proposed by Horney:

In the context of the idealized self-image,describe the tyranny of the shoulds.

Horney's compliant personality is similar to Adler's:

In Horney's view,neurotic needs were actual rational solutions to one's problems.

Horney strongly disagreed with Freud about:

Horney considered neurotic competitiveness as an indiscriminate need to win at all costs.

According to Horney,children can develop feelings of security in spite of traumatic events when:

Between the two types of competitiveness identified by researchers,competing to excel (CE):

According to Horney,there are three categories of behaviors and attitudes toward oneself and others that express a person's needs.

Although Karen Horney was married,she was constantly looking for other relationships.

Horney believed that _____ people must repress their personal desires and cannot defend against abuse.

What factor in Horney's childhood is reflected in her personality theory?

In the context of the free association method used by Horney to assess the functioning of her patients' personality,which of the following statements is true?

According to Horney,neurotics tend to look for a problem in other people but blame themselves for it.

All of the following are neurotic needs according to Horney except:

List the 10 neurotic needs identified by Horney,and classify them on the four ways in which an individual protects himself or herself against basic anxiety.

Horney' concept of the real self and self-realization were used by _____.

According to Horney,the urge toward self-realization derives from:

In Horney's system,conflict in personality:

Which of the following is true of Horney's theory on personality?