Question 1

Research on the relationship between personality trait measures and hypnotic responsiveness generally has found

Accepted Answer

A)  personality traits such as sensation-seeking and extraversion are moderately correlated with hypnotic responsiveness. 
B)  hypnotic responsiveness is related to a person's ability to become highly involved in sensory or imaginative experiences. 
C)  no consistent evidence relating personality trait measures to hypnotic responsiveness. 
D)  hypnotic responsiveness has more to do with the hypnotist's talent than the subject's ability to become hypnotized.

Question 2

According to Anna Freud, daughter of noted psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the use of a defense mechanism can be either adaptive or maladaptive. Which one it is depends on

Accepted Answer

A)  the user's age. 
B)  whether the user distorts reality. 
C)  whether the user is aware of the defense mechanism. 
D)  the user's gender.

Question 3

Some psychoanalytic researchers have argued that dreams represent unresolved conflicts. As evidence for this interpretation, they point to

Accepted Answer

A)  how much more men sleep than women. 
B)  the results of sleep-deprivation studies. 
C)  the existence of recurrent dreams. 
D)  how much babies dream compared to adults.

Question 4

Researchers draw a distinction between defense mechanisms and coping strategies, in that defense mechanisms are____________ , whereas coping strategies are____________ .

Accepted Answer

A)  negative? positive 
B)  ineffective? effective 
C)  innate? learned 
D)  unconscious? conscious

Question 5

A stage hypnotist arranges chairs so that only a few of the many volunteers who rush to the stage are able to participate in the show. She does this to capitalize on which responsiveness-enhancing variable?

Accepted Answer

A)  Expectancy 
B)  Attitude 
C)  Motivation 
D)  Absorption

Question 6

Write about a dream you have had and give an example of a psychoanalytic interpretation of it. Why do people dream, according to Freud? Summarize the research findings on dreams that challenge Freud's theory of dreaming.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Write about a dream you have had...

Question 7

According to several research findings (Brody, Rozek, & Muten, 1985; Cramer, 1997; Cramer & Brilliant, 2001), children rely most heavily on which of the following unconscious defense mechanisms?

Accepted Answer

A)  Denial 
B)  Identification 
C)  Reaction formation 
D)  Sublimation

Question 8

Researchers find frequent use of ____________is associated with a higher rate of interpersonal and psychological problems.

Accepted Answer

A)  sublimation 
B)  immature defense mechanisms 
C)  coping strategies 
D)  hostile humor

Question 9

The influence of psychoanalytic theory can be seen most clearly in the____________ theory of hypnosis.

Accepted Answer

A)  absorption 
B)  neodissociation 
C)  nontrance 
D)  role

Question 10

From Freud's view of tension reduction, one can conclude that a joke will be received as funnier when

Accepted Answer

A)  it is sexual than when it is hostile. 
B)  more tension is experienced before the punch line. 
C)  tension increases rapidly. 
D)  less tension is experienced before the punch line.

Question 11

Many of the research findings in support of Freud's theory of humor can also be explained by the fact that people find ____________funny.

Accepted Answer

A)  incongruity 
B)  all forms of humor 
C)  what others laugh at to be 
D)  what society tells them to laugh at to be

Question 12

Psychoanalytic researchers have used the results of studies on the frequencies of male and female dream characters to support which aspect of Freud's theory?

Accepted Answer

A)  Repression 
B)  The Oedipus complex 
C)  Projection 
D)  The pleasure principle

Exam 4: The Freudian Approach: Relevant Research