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STUDY QUESTIONS (Complete for Credit):

Match the correct definition to the key terms (may be submitted individually or as a study/suppport group).

Part A. Key Terms
__8__ Transference
__6__ Identification
__1__ Archetypes
__5__ Shadow
__2__ Syzygy
__11__ Social Interest
__9__ Projection
__3__ Libido
__10__ Latency Period
__4_ Defense Mechanism
__7__ Mandala

Part B. Definitions

1. The images that live in the collective unconscious.

2. Anima + Animus.

3. According to Jung, generalized psychic energy.

4. Unconscious mental mechanisms which prevent the individual from experiencing anxiety.

5. The archetype that incorporates and expresses the negative aspects of the personality.

6. A defense mechanism that involves taking on the personality characteristics of another person, usually someone who is admired.

7. A widely observed archetypal symbol of psychological integration.

8. The tendency to project parental characteristics and issues on to the psychoanalyst.

9. A defense mechanism characterized by attributing undesirable characteristics of the self to another person.

10. The psychosexual stage preceding adolescence.

11. A key motivator in Alfred Adler's theory.

12. Attributing one's own personality characteristics to another or taking another's characteristic as one's own

Multiple Choice

1. Which theorist has the most optimistic view of the content and dynamics of the unconscious?

a. Freud
b. Jung
c. Harry Stack Sullivan
d. Henry James

2. According to Freud, at any given stage of development, the areas of the body on which sexual pleasure was concentrated was called the:

a. G spot
b. erogenous zone
c. naughty part
d. thanatos

3. "Individuation" is

a. The process of identity formation during the adolescent identity crisis.
b. The process of self- growth by which the individual seeks to unify the various aspects of his personality into a spiritually whole self.
c. The process of overcoming the "inferiority complex."

4. What do the major neo-Freudians have in common?

a. The all accept Freud's basic theory of the id, ego, and super-ego.
b. They are all concerned with how social influences shape individual lives, particularly in the form of relationships or interactions with other people.
c. They see mental illness as a form of maladaptive behavior, which does not work to serve the patient's welfare.
d. All of the above

5. The disease in which a patient loses a normal physical ability for psychological reasons is called:

a. dysfunction
b. anal retentive
c. hysteria
d. All of the above

6. Which of the following was NOT concerned with social philosophy and criticism?

a. Erich Fromm
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Ivan Pavlov
d. Karen Horney

7. Who was the founder of the interpersonal school of psychology?

a. Wofgang Köhler
b. Wilhelm Reich
c. Karen Horney
d. Harry Stack Sullivan

8. Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's five stages of psychosexual development.

a. Basic trust
b. Latency
c. Anal
d. All of the above

9. Which of these psycho analysts did not see the future as an important determinant of behavior?

a. Freud
b. Adler
c. Jung
d. All of the above

10. Which of the following was NOT one of Freud's major contributions?

a. His theory of the unconscious.
b. His theory of the role of culture in the development of character types.
c. His theory of psychosexual stages.
d. His understanding of the importance of childhood experiences in adult behavior.

11. According to Freud, the ego is governed by the ______________ principle:

a. pleasure
b. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal

12. According to Freud, the id is governed by the ______________ principle:

a. pleasure
b. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal

13. In Jung's theory, which of the following means about the same thing as "meaningful coincidence":

a. individuation
b. teleology
c. synchronicity
d. self-actualization

14. According to Jung, ______________ is the process by which the various components of the personality are recognized and given expression within the context of a person's life:

a. teleology
b. displacement
c. individuation
d. thanatos

15. Jung's theory was criticized for being all of the following except:

a. mystical
b. unscientific
c. incomprehensible
d. over-emphasizing sex

16. Adler believed that all humans started life with

a. feelings of superiority
b. weak organs
c. a collective unconscious
d. primordial guilt

17. According to Horney, the difference between neurotic and normal people regarding the use of major adjustment patterns was that:

a. only neurotics use them
b. only normal people use them
c. normal people use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas neurotics attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them
d. neurotics use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas normal people attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them

18. Horney believed that women often feel inferior to men because:

a. women are physically inferior to men
b. of penis envy
c. women are culturally inferior to men
d. anatomy is destiny

19. Who claimed that "anatomy is destiny":

a. Freud
b. Adler
c. Jung
d. Horney

20. Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander illustrates which psychoanalytic concept:

a. Sadomasochism
b. Archetypes
c. Social Interest
d. All of the above