Exam 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

_____ involves developing strategies for problem solving and satisfying urges.

Jerry loves to party and thinks everyone else enjoys partying as much as he does.He is demonstrating the _____ effect.

Which of the following is NOT a type of anxiety described by Freud?

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

Anxiety that is experienced in response to an external threat was called _____ anxiety by Freud.

All of these are goals of projective techniques EXCEPT to

You are answering this question.Therefore, Freud would say the information is in the _____ (mind.)

Freud believed that _____ occurred during the latency period.

Jessica tries to be the perfect business woman.She works extraordinarily long hours, is extremely conscientious, and tries to be a good role model to her employees.However, no matter how many kudos she earns, raises she receives, and professional awards she earns Jessica feels _____ anxiety about her performance and is constantly worried about getting fired.

When a patient in psychoanalytic therapy understands his or her unconscious conflicts, that person has

The _____ is responsible for balancing the demands of reality and the other parts of the mind.

A person sitting next to you in class gets a low grade on this exam.When you discuss the exam results, the person blames their performance on the difficulty of the material, their lack of belief in psychoanalytic theory, lack of the necessity to have this knowledge in the future, belief that the material is irrelevant, etc.This student may be using the Freudian defense mechanism of _____ to explain his or her poor behavior.

The process whereby an image of something unavailable is used to satisfy an urge is known as

Freud used the metaphor of a(n) _____ to describe the three parts of the mind.

Which part of the mind engages in secondary process thinking?

Freud thought that the skyscrapers of New York City might be the result of

Someone replaces one impulse with its opposite (e.g., love for hate).What defense mechanism may be at work?

According to Freud, the _____ mind is the part of the mind that contains all the information that you are not currently thinking about, but could easily bring to mind.

The _____ is the part of the mind about which the conscious mind has no awareness.

Which of the following parts of the mind is bound by reality?