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correct answers
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The four key ideas that make up the foundation of
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psychoanalysis are:
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a. Psychological well-being, the ability to reason, moral capacities,
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and mental energy.
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b. Psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, and
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mental energy.
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c. State characteristics, trait characteristics, psychological
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reasoning, and internal conflict.
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d. Psychic determinism, dream-space, ethics, and reason. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔B
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One of the elegant aspects of the psychoanalytic approach is that
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all of its complexity is built on a relatively small set of key
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ideas: psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict,
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and mental energy (see "The Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis").
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Psychic determinism can be defined as:
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a. The philosophy that everything people do in life is
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predetermined.
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,b. The idea that everything that happens in a person's mind—
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thus everything a person thinks or does—has a cause that can
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be identified.
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c. The idea that everything we do resonates psychically with
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those around us.
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d. The psychological concept that the workings of the mind are
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rooted in specific chemical reactions in the brain - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔B
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: Psychic determinism says that any behavior can be understood
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through diligence, insight, and an application of the proper
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psychoanalytic framework (see "Psychic Determinism").
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A key assumption of psychoanalysis is that the brain has an
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internal structure made of parts that can function _______ and, at
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times, ______ each other.
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a. Independent; conflict
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b. Together; complement
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c. Simultaneously; override
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d. Independent; complement - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔A
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: It is important to remember the distinction between the mind
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and the brain: The brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind
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is the psychological result of what the brain and the rest of the
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body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
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, The id, ego, and superego are:
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a. Terms that pertain to the structure of the brain.
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b. Terms that pertain to our ability to judge others.
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c. Terms that pertain to the structure of the mind.
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d. Terms that pertain to the structure of personality experiments.
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- CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔C
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It is important to remember the distinction between the mind
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and the brain: The brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind
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is the psychological result of what the brain and the rest of the
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body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
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Ideas about the id pertain to _______, the ego to ______, and the
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superego to _______.
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a. The unconscious mind; the conscious mind; the rational mind
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b. Impulses; impulse control; morality
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c. Dreams and the imagination; morality; rational thought
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d. The irrational part of the mind; the rational part of the mind;
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the moral part of the mind - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔D
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These definitions might not correlate exactly to the nuances of
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the German terms that Freud wrote originally; another
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translation could be, the It, the I, and the Over-I (see "Psychic
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Determinism").
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