Question 1

According to Horney,which of the following best exemplifies self-analysis?

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A)  A student who fails a test and then asks himself whether he had prepared sufficiently for it. 
B)  A person who instinctively screams at another driver who cuts in front of them in traffic. 
C)  A teenager who throws a temper tantrum when her mother takes away her phone. 
D)  An evangelist who spouts scripture on campus as students pass by.

Question 2

David,a 40-year-old male,has always been driven to achieve a great deal at work and also to create art through painting and sculpting.According to Horney,David is driven to perform these behaviors as

Accepted Answer

A)  a result of his inborn hypercompetitiveness with other males. 
B)  compensation for his inability to bear children. 
C)  a result of his inborn hypercompetitiveness with females. 
D)  a way to deal with his unconscious castration fears.

Question 3

Rafael is a perfectionist who goes to extremes to prove that he needs no one's help in any way.His quest for total self-sufficiency has resulted in social isolation.According to Horney,what is his primary mode of relating to others?

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A)  Moving away 
B)  Moving against 
C)  Moving toward 
D)  Moving opposite

Question 4

Maria is a mother who is high in demands and psychological control,but low in warmth.Which parenting style does Maria exemplify?

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A)  Authoritarian 
B)  Authoritative 
C)  Indulgent 
D)  Uninvolved

Question 5

Both Horney and Fromm identified fundamentally different ways that individuals relate to each other or experience life (for example,primary modes of relating,character orientations,basic modes of existence).To what extent do you believe an individual can alter his or her fundamental manner of experiencing life? At what age is such change most difficult? What methods would be most likely to produce such change?

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Question 6

A neurotic need to be admired and to exploit that admiration represents,according to Horney,which of the following solutions to anxiety?

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A)  Self-assertion 
B)  Self-expansion 
C)  Self-effacement 
D)  Resignation

Question 7

Horney believed that the "flight from womanhood" was

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A)  characterized by promiscuity. 
B)  due to a biological abnormality. 
C)  due to experiences of social and cultural disadvantages. 
D)  due to penis envy.

Question 8

How are Fromm's concepts of escape from freedom and necrophilous character relevant to post-9/11 efforts against terrorism?

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Question 9

According to Horney,"__________" represent(s) identification with the ideal self instead of the real or actual self.

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A)  the tyranny of the shoulds 
B)  moving toward 
C)  alienation 
D)  moving against

Question 10

Karen Horney and Erich Fromm departed from Freudian theory in that they both

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A)  emphasized the importance of social factors on personality development. 
B)  no longer practiced psychoanalysis. 
C)  persisted in stressing the intrapsychic aspects of personality. 
D)  explored the guilt feelings that result from sexual impulses.

Question 11

Cognitive researchers are using brain scanners to locate the neural sources of emotion,behavior,and belief.They have learned,for example,that the amygdala,which is a center of emotional learning in the limbic system,may play a role in the development of

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A)  love. 
B)  attachment. 
C)  bias. 
D)  jealousy.

Question 12

In the neurotic individual,the idealized self and the real self

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A)  become repressed. 
B)  mostly coincide. 
C)  become separated. 
D)  are one.

Question 13

Karen Horney was an early feminist who challenged male authority.What would be Horney's position on some of the major issues facing women today (for example,equal rights,the question of abortion,and health care)?

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Question 14

What type of parenting predicts the highest levels of competence and lowest levels of problem behavior in Caucasian children?

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A)  Authoritarian 
B)  Authoritative 
C)  Indulgent 
D)  Uninvolved

Question 15

In Horney's concept of basic anxiety,the threat to the individual comes from

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A)  the id. 
B)  a perception of the environment as dangerous and unfair. 
C)  the amygdala. 
D)  conditional positive regard.

Question 16

How do Fromm's theories relate to contemporary discussions regarding terrorism?

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Question 17

Positive effects of authoritative parenting have been found more consistently in Caucasians than in Asians.In your opinion,is there any parenting style that produces positive effects in every culture around the world?

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Question 18

Andrea has formed a relationship with her husband in which she allows him to dominate her so completely that they have become symbiotic.According to Fromm,Andrea exemplifies the mechanism of escape known as

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A)  automaton conformity. 
B)  authoritarianism. 
C)  destructiveness. 
D)  isolation.

Question 19

Julie is a very dependent young woman who believes that she can look to other people to fulfill herself.These behavior and thought modes typify which orientation?

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A)  Exploitative 
B)  Hoarding 
C)  Productive 
D)  Receptive

Question 20

Erich Fromm's approach is best described as humanistic social analysis because it attempts a synthesis of the thoughts of

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A)  Freud and Adler. 
B)  Freud and Jung. 
C)  Adler and Jung. 
D)  Freud and Marx.

Exam 5: Psychoanalytic Social Psychology Karen Horney Erich Fromm