PSYCH 331 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

PSYCH 331 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION ___________________________ theory contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality. - Correct Answer Psychodynamic What are the 3 assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective? - Correct Answer 1) Primacy of the unconscious 2) Critical importance of early experiences 3) Psychic causality True or false: Psychodynamic theorists contend that the majority of psychological processes take place outside conscious awareness. - Correct Answer True What are the 3 main models of psychodynamic theory? - Correct Answer 1) Topographic model 2) Psychosexual stage model 3) Structural model What are the 3 regions that Freud divided the brain into? - Correct Answer Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious True or false: The unconscious contains anxiety-producing material (e.g., sexual impulses, aggressive urges) that are deliberately repressed (held outside of conscious awareness as a form of self-protection because they make you uncomfortable) - Correct Answer True What are Freud's psychosexual stages? - Correct Answer oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage Oral fixation is hypothesized to result in what? - Correct Answer A dependent personality Anal fixation is hypothesized to result in what? - Correct Answer A lifelong preoccupation with control Oedipal fixation is hypothesized to result in what? - Correct Answer An aggressive, competitive personality orientation What does a sexual arousal template consist of? - Correct Answer The total constellation of thoughts, images, behaviors, sounds, smells, sights, fantasies, and objects that arouse us sexually. What are Freud's 3 interacting mental structures called? - Correct Answer Id, ego, and superego The ego represents what? - Correct Answer The logical, reality-oriented part of the mind "Maybe we should think this through" What is the superego? - Correct Answer Your conscience (moral guidelines, rules, and prohibitions that guide your behavior) "We must follow the rules" What are ego defenses? - Correct Answer Mental strategies that we use automatically and unconsciously when we feel threatened (e.g., repression, denial, sublimation, and reaction formation)