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Question 1
4.7 Points
Which of the following statements is true about personality theories?
1.
They are former principles that have been proven true.
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They are useful tools of science to the extent that they are value free.
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They should not be open to falsification.
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They originate from the historical, social, and psychological world of their originators.
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Question 2
4.7 Points
The ultimate goal of Jungian dream interpretation is to:
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uncover hidden sexual urges.
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facilitate self-realization.
3.
conquer unconscious fears.
4.
enhance the persona.
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Question 3
4.7 Points
Firstborn children, according to Alfred Adler, are likely to:
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suffer from organ inferiorities.
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communicate in organ dialect more than second born children do.
3.
have very little anxiety.
4.
have intensified feelings of power and superiority.
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Question 4
4.7 Points
Alfred Adler believed that the typical second born child:
1.
develops moderate competitiveness.
2.
develops extreme feelings of vengeance toward younger siblings.
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is fearful of authority.
4.
becomes easily discouraged.
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Question 5
4.7 Points
Alfred Adler believed that behavior and personality are shaped by:
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organ inferiorities.
2.
subjective perceptions.
3.
sexual and aggressive impulses.
4.
early childhood experiences.
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Question 6
4.7 Points
To Carl Jung, the two basic attitudes are:
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thinking and feeling.
2.
introversion and extraversion.
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sensing and intuiting.
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conscious and unconscious.
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Question 7
4.7 Points
Carl Jung defined the term “instinct” as:
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an unconscious physical impulse toward action.
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an irrational function that involves perception of elementary data that are beyond an individual’s awareness.
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the ability to fuse one’s identity with that of another person without a fear of losing it.
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a feeling of uneasiness with an unknown cause.
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Question 8
4.7 Points
Asking a patient to verbalize thoughts, no matter how absurd, irrelevant, or embarrassing, is the Freudian technique of:
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condensation.
2.
displacement.
3.
dream analysis.
4.
free association.
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Question 9
4.7 Points
According to Freud, the ego is:
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partly conscious, partly preconscious, and partly unconscious.
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preconscious only.
3.
conscious only.
4.
unconscious only.
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Question 10
4.7 Points
Which of the following terms is used to describe a therapist’s feelings toward a patient during the course of treatment?
1.
Causality
2.
Countertransference
3.
Progression
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Individuation
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Question 11
4.7 Points
The major difficulty facing youth is to overcome the natural tendency to cling to the narrow consciousness of childhood, thus avoiding problems pertinent to the present time of life. This desire to live in the past is called:
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the vicarious experience.
2.
the cardinal disposition.
3.
individuation.
4.
the conservative principle.
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Question 12
4.7 Points
Which of the following statements is true of both instincts and archetypes?
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They themselves can be directly represented.
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They are consciously determined.
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They lack a biological basis.
4.
They can help shape personality.
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Question 13
4.7 Points
The first test of one’s courage, according to Carl Jung, is to:
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submit one’s self to the ego.
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recognize the animus.
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recognize one’s inheritance.
4.
know one’s shadow.
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Question 14
4.7 Points
According to Freud, a boy who feels strong hostility toward his father and sexual love for his mother is experiencing:
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the complete Oedipus complex.
2.
the castration complex.
3.
moral masochism.
4.
the simple male Oedipus complex.
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Question 15
4.7 Points
According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following statements is true about the superego?
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It is the executive branch of personality.
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It is rational.
3.
It strives for pleasure.
4.
It strives for perfection.
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