PSY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH THE
LATEST RESOLVED SOLUTIONS.GRADE
A+ GURANTEED
Reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification - answer ✔✔-The Id
psyche's executive and principal decision maker. Interacts with the real world and fighting ways to
resolve the competeing demands of the other two psychic agencies.
Reality principle: delay gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet - answer ✔✔-The Ego
our sense of morality, sense of right and wrong - answer ✔✔-The Superego
unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety - answer ✔✔-defense mechanism
motivated forgetting of emotional threatening memories or impulses. EX. A person who witnesses a
traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to remember it. - answer ✔✔-Repression
Motivated forgetting of distressing experiences. EX. A mother who loses a child in a car accident insists
her child is alive - answer ✔✔-Denial
Returning psychologically to a younger and safer time. Ex. A college student starts sucking their thumb
during difficult exam - answer ✔✔-Regression
transforming an anxiety-producing experience into its opposite. EX. A married man who's sexually
attracted to a coworker experience hatred and revulsion towards her. - answer ✔✔-Reaction-formation
, unconscious attribution of our negative qualitites onto others. EX. A married man with powerful
unconscious sexual impulses toward females complains that other women are always "after him" -
answer ✔✔-Projection
directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto a more acceptable one EX. A golfer angrily
throws his club into the woods after an easy putt. - answer ✔✔-Displacement
Providing reasonable-sounding explanations for unreasonable behaviors or failures EX. A political
candidate who loses an election convinces herself that she didn't really want the position after all -
answer ✔✔-Rationalization
Avoiding the emotions associated with anxiety-provoking experiences by focusing on abstract and
impersonal thoughts EX. A woman who's husband cheats on her reassures herself that " according to
evolutionary psychologists, men are naturally sexually promiscuous, so there is nothing to worry about"
- answer ✔✔-Intellectualization
Adopting the psychological characteristics of people we find threatening. EX. A college basketball player
who initially fears his tyrannical coach comes to admire him and adopts his dictatorial qualities - answer
✔✔-identification with the aggressor
Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired and socially valued goal. EX. A boy that
enjoys beating up on other children grows up to become a successful professional boxer - answer ✔✔-
Sublimation
five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor analyses of personality measures - answer ✔✔-Big 5
personality traits
approach proposing that the most crucial features of personality are embedded in our language -
answer ✔✔-Lexical approach
Sometimes just called "openness"- open people tend to be intellectually curious and unconventional -
answer ✔✔-Openness to Experience
Conscientious people tend to be careful and responsible - answer ✔✔-Conscientiousness
LATEST RESOLVED SOLUTIONS.GRADE
A+ GURANTEED
Reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification - answer ✔✔-The Id
psyche's executive and principal decision maker. Interacts with the real world and fighting ways to
resolve the competeing demands of the other two psychic agencies.
Reality principle: delay gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet - answer ✔✔-The Ego
our sense of morality, sense of right and wrong - answer ✔✔-The Superego
unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety - answer ✔✔-defense mechanism
motivated forgetting of emotional threatening memories or impulses. EX. A person who witnesses a
traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to remember it. - answer ✔✔-Repression
Motivated forgetting of distressing experiences. EX. A mother who loses a child in a car accident insists
her child is alive - answer ✔✔-Denial
Returning psychologically to a younger and safer time. Ex. A college student starts sucking their thumb
during difficult exam - answer ✔✔-Regression
transforming an anxiety-producing experience into its opposite. EX. A married man who's sexually
attracted to a coworker experience hatred and revulsion towards her. - answer ✔✔-Reaction-formation
, unconscious attribution of our negative qualitites onto others. EX. A married man with powerful
unconscious sexual impulses toward females complains that other women are always "after him" -
answer ✔✔-Projection
directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto a more acceptable one EX. A golfer angrily
throws his club into the woods after an easy putt. - answer ✔✔-Displacement
Providing reasonable-sounding explanations for unreasonable behaviors or failures EX. A political
candidate who loses an election convinces herself that she didn't really want the position after all -
answer ✔✔-Rationalization
Avoiding the emotions associated with anxiety-provoking experiences by focusing on abstract and
impersonal thoughts EX. A woman who's husband cheats on her reassures herself that " according to
evolutionary psychologists, men are naturally sexually promiscuous, so there is nothing to worry about"
- answer ✔✔-Intellectualization
Adopting the psychological characteristics of people we find threatening. EX. A college basketball player
who initially fears his tyrannical coach comes to admire him and adopts his dictatorial qualities - answer
✔✔-identification with the aggressor
Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired and socially valued goal. EX. A boy that
enjoys beating up on other children grows up to become a successful professional boxer - answer ✔✔-
Sublimation
five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor analyses of personality measures - answer ✔✔-Big 5
personality traits
approach proposing that the most crucial features of personality are embedded in our language -
answer ✔✔-Lexical approach
Sometimes just called "openness"- open people tend to be intellectually curious and unconventional -
answer ✔✔-Openness to Experience
Conscientious people tend to be careful and responsible - answer ✔✔-Conscientiousness
