PCN-107 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Preconsciousness - Answers - Freud/Psychoanalysis: The ___________________
houses all memory that has been lost to consciousness but can be accessed and
remembered with relative ease
Consciousness - Answers - Freud: Psychoanalysis: all of our feelings, thoughts,
fantasies, and behaviors of which we are aware, is a small part of what Freud believed
motivates the individual
Unconsciousness - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: more primitive mind, however, is
the true motivator of our underlying desires and wants. The _____________________
is driven by our id energy, which is comprised of our instincts
Defense Mechanisms - Answers - Freud/ psychoanalysis: we are inherently driven to
satisfy our needs, placing restraints is unnatural and will inevitably lead to neurotic and
even psychotic behavior as the individual attempts to control his or her urges through
the use of ______________. Healthy when assist the individual in functioning in
adaptive ways in society; however, they become pathological when they are overused
and result in behaviors that impair
everyday living.
Anxiety - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: Moral, Neurotic, Realistic
Psychosexual Stages of Development - Answers - Freud/ Psyschoanalysis: Oral, anal,
phallic, latency, genital stages
Oedipus Complex - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: desire to sleep with or possess
one's mother and kill one's father
Dream Analysis - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: _________ are a projection of our
unconscious and represent symbolic images of our desires and wishes
ID - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: All of the psychic energy from our life and death
instincts comprise the ___—or more literally, "the it." We are born all ____, and Freud
believed that the _____, sometimes called the primitive mind, unconsciously motivates
almost all of our behaviors. The ___ operates from raw, irrational impulses called
primary process, and is fueled by the pleasure principle, whose aim is to reduce tension
through the simplest means possible
Ego - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: without an id, the _____ has no function.
Called the "I" by Freud, the ______ develops sometime after the infant is born as the
child begins to wrestle with the external world of reality. Partly conscious, but also
operating out of the precociousness and unconscious, the manner in which the _____
functions is often called secondary process (created secondarily after the id has
, formed). The main function of the ____ is to temper the id by finding socially acceptable
ways to meet the demands of the id.
Superego - Answers - Freud/ psychoanalysis: MORAL IMPERATIVES (our moral
compass) internalization of the moral imperatives of our parents and other significant
others, and led to the development of a personal conscience. Freud believed that the
_______ emerged from the individual's Oedipal struggle. Operates out of unconscious
and precociousness. Contains the "beast within."
Transeference - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: clients putting their feelings on
counselors. Sometimes forming a "false connection"
Countertransference - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: the therapist transfers feelings
onto the client.
Collective Unconscious - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: a depository of ancient images
which we all hold in common.
Archetypes - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: tendency to differentiate aspects of the person.
Create complexes. Makes us "human"
Thinking/Feeling/Intuiting/Sensing - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: These functions are the
ways in which we operate in our outer or inner world
Persona - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: the mask that hides aspects of ourselves from
others and sometimes even from ourselves. It helps us get along with one another, and
indeed, we probably would be a pretty chaotic society without it
Self - Answers - Jung/ Analyitcal: the _____ represents the unity of
consciousness and unconsciousness. Since consciousness expands as we age, the
_____ is always changing as we integrate different parts of ourselves into
consciousness. The ____ has to do with what we are becoming and is closely related to
the process of individuation.
Shadow - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: parts of our life that we do not want to claim. It
has the power to encapsulate our hidden parts and keep them safely walled off from
consciousness.
It is all of what we are not in our conscious lives.
Psyche - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: represented all of our psychological processes and
contained all which is in consciousness, the personal unconscious, and the collective
unconscious.
Anima/animus - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: We all have an inner gender-opposite that
calls us. Male: inner opposite is anima; Female is animus.
Preconsciousness - Answers - Freud/Psychoanalysis: The ___________________
houses all memory that has been lost to consciousness but can be accessed and
remembered with relative ease
Consciousness - Answers - Freud: Psychoanalysis: all of our feelings, thoughts,
fantasies, and behaviors of which we are aware, is a small part of what Freud believed
motivates the individual
Unconsciousness - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: more primitive mind, however, is
the true motivator of our underlying desires and wants. The _____________________
is driven by our id energy, which is comprised of our instincts
Defense Mechanisms - Answers - Freud/ psychoanalysis: we are inherently driven to
satisfy our needs, placing restraints is unnatural and will inevitably lead to neurotic and
even psychotic behavior as the individual attempts to control his or her urges through
the use of ______________. Healthy when assist the individual in functioning in
adaptive ways in society; however, they become pathological when they are overused
and result in behaviors that impair
everyday living.
Anxiety - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: Moral, Neurotic, Realistic
Psychosexual Stages of Development - Answers - Freud/ Psyschoanalysis: Oral, anal,
phallic, latency, genital stages
Oedipus Complex - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: desire to sleep with or possess
one's mother and kill one's father
Dream Analysis - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: _________ are a projection of our
unconscious and represent symbolic images of our desires and wishes
ID - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: All of the psychic energy from our life and death
instincts comprise the ___—or more literally, "the it." We are born all ____, and Freud
believed that the _____, sometimes called the primitive mind, unconsciously motivates
almost all of our behaviors. The ___ operates from raw, irrational impulses called
primary process, and is fueled by the pleasure principle, whose aim is to reduce tension
through the simplest means possible
Ego - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: without an id, the _____ has no function.
Called the "I" by Freud, the ______ develops sometime after the infant is born as the
child begins to wrestle with the external world of reality. Partly conscious, but also
operating out of the precociousness and unconscious, the manner in which the _____
functions is often called secondary process (created secondarily after the id has
, formed). The main function of the ____ is to temper the id by finding socially acceptable
ways to meet the demands of the id.
Superego - Answers - Freud/ psychoanalysis: MORAL IMPERATIVES (our moral
compass) internalization of the moral imperatives of our parents and other significant
others, and led to the development of a personal conscience. Freud believed that the
_______ emerged from the individual's Oedipal struggle. Operates out of unconscious
and precociousness. Contains the "beast within."
Transeference - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: clients putting their feelings on
counselors. Sometimes forming a "false connection"
Countertransference - Answers - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: the therapist transfers feelings
onto the client.
Collective Unconscious - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: a depository of ancient images
which we all hold in common.
Archetypes - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: tendency to differentiate aspects of the person.
Create complexes. Makes us "human"
Thinking/Feeling/Intuiting/Sensing - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: These functions are the
ways in which we operate in our outer or inner world
Persona - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: the mask that hides aspects of ourselves from
others and sometimes even from ourselves. It helps us get along with one another, and
indeed, we probably would be a pretty chaotic society without it
Self - Answers - Jung/ Analyitcal: the _____ represents the unity of
consciousness and unconsciousness. Since consciousness expands as we age, the
_____ is always changing as we integrate different parts of ourselves into
consciousness. The ____ has to do with what we are becoming and is closely related to
the process of individuation.
Shadow - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: parts of our life that we do not want to claim. It
has the power to encapsulate our hidden parts and keep them safely walled off from
consciousness.
It is all of what we are not in our conscious lives.
Psyche - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: represented all of our psychological processes and
contained all which is in consciousness, the personal unconscious, and the collective
unconscious.
Anima/animus - Answers - Jung/ Analytical: We all have an inner gender-opposite that
calls us. Male: inner opposite is anima; Female is animus.
