unit 10-11 psych UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
personality - CORRECT ANSWER -an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and
acting
psychoanalytic - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of unconscious processes and childhood
experiences
humanistic - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of self and fulfillment of potential
social cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of beliefs about self
psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER -Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by
seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER -a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings,
and memories; information processing of which we are unaware
preconscious - CORRECT ANSWER -Information that is not conscious but is retrievable into
conscious awareness
id - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure principle; immediate gratification; eros, thanatos, libido
ego - CORRECT ANSWER -reality principle; realistically brings pleasure rather than pain;
rational, organized, logical, mediator to demands of reality
superego - CORRECT ANSWER -internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and
future aspirations
, free association - CORRECT ANSWER -a method of exploring the unconscious in which the
person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing; morality
principle, partially unconscious. societal and parental values
psychosexual stages - CORRECT ANSWER -the childhood stages of development during which
the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
oral stage (0-18 months) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure centers on the mouth (sucking, biting,
chewing)
anal (18-36 months) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination;
coping with demands for control
phallic (3-6 years) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous
sexual feelings
latency (6-puberty) - CORRECT ANSWER -dormant sexual feelings
genital (puberty-on) - CORRECT ANSWER -maturation of sexual interests
oedipus complex - CORRECT ANSWER -a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of
jealousy and hatred for the rival father
electra complex - CORRECT ANSWER -a girl's sexual desires toward her father and feelings of
jealousy and hatred for the rival mother
castration anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER -boys feel guilt and fear that their father would punish
them (castration) for sexual desires for their mother & jealousy of their father
Questions and CORRECT Answers
personality - CORRECT ANSWER -an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and
acting
psychoanalytic - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of unconscious processes and childhood
experiences
humanistic - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of self and fulfillment of potential
social cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER -importance of beliefs about self
psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER -Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by
seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER -a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings,
and memories; information processing of which we are unaware
preconscious - CORRECT ANSWER -Information that is not conscious but is retrievable into
conscious awareness
id - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure principle; immediate gratification; eros, thanatos, libido
ego - CORRECT ANSWER -reality principle; realistically brings pleasure rather than pain;
rational, organized, logical, mediator to demands of reality
superego - CORRECT ANSWER -internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and
future aspirations
, free association - CORRECT ANSWER -a method of exploring the unconscious in which the
person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing; morality
principle, partially unconscious. societal and parental values
psychosexual stages - CORRECT ANSWER -the childhood stages of development during which
the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
oral stage (0-18 months) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure centers on the mouth (sucking, biting,
chewing)
anal (18-36 months) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination;
coping with demands for control
phallic (3-6 years) - CORRECT ANSWER -pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous
sexual feelings
latency (6-puberty) - CORRECT ANSWER -dormant sexual feelings
genital (puberty-on) - CORRECT ANSWER -maturation of sexual interests
oedipus complex - CORRECT ANSWER -a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of
jealousy and hatred for the rival father
electra complex - CORRECT ANSWER -a girl's sexual desires toward her father and feelings of
jealousy and hatred for the rival mother
castration anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER -boys feel guilt and fear that their father would punish
them (castration) for sexual desires for their mother & jealousy of their father
