Exam 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

According to Freud, the main reason little boys give up on their sexual desire for their mother is

Making excuses or acceptable explanations for unacceptable behavior is an example of

Freud's idea of instincts was probably most influenced by

The ego uses _____ to deal with anxiety.

The psychosexual stage most associated with control is the _____ stage.

_____ occurs when a patient in psychoanalysis treats the therapist as someone in the patient's life.

Yang is lost in a major city and will likely be late for an important job interview.He is most likely experiencing _____ anxiety.

Which of the following is NOT part of Freud's model of the mind?

The main conflict during the _____ stage is excessive pleasure versus dependency.

According to Freud, the _____ mind is the part of the mind that contains thoughts and feelings of which you are currently aware.

According to Freud, a child who is fixated at the biting part of the oral stage will be _____ as an adult.

_____ is a psychoanalytic therapist's attempts to describe a patient's unconscious conflict.

_____ is the idea that people reveal their personalities by their responses to ambiguous stimuli.

Freud might explain people engaging in anti-homosexual campaigns as an example of

Which part of the mind operates on the pleasure principle?

Before psychoanalysis, Freud did research in the field of

If a woman consciously redirected anger she felt toward her boss to the family dog, it would be an example of

Puberty begins about the same time as the _____ stage.

Freud lived most of his life in

Miasha looks around her apartment and sees her clothes scattered about, her lunch dishes sitting in the sink, and her bed unmade.When her roommates complain about her lack of cleanliness, she calls them all slobs and leaves quite angry.Miasha is using the defense mechanism of