Psychology Quiz - Personality
Psychoanalytic Theory
Multiple Choice- choose the letter that best answers the question asked.
1. The unique pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over
time and situations and distinguishes one person from another is called:
a. a trait b. a habit c. personality d. learning
2. Freud believed that personality is made up of conflicting psychological forces
operating at different levels of awareness. The largest and most influential level is …
a. the conscious b. the unconscious c. the ego d. the collective
3. Freud considered the ____ to be the most important drive(s) in the development of
personality.
a. aggressive instincts c. Both A and B
b. sexual instincts d. morality instincts
4. Freud believed that personality is composed of :
a. the id, the ego, and the superego
b. the conscious, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious
c. the libido, thantos, and a combination of oral and anal fixations
d. a unique pattern of traits
5. For Freud, material that we are not currently aware of, but which can be easily
recalled is in the ___ mind.
a. unconscious c. preconscious
b. collective unconscious d. conscious
6. For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the:
a. id b. ego c. superego d. persona
7. The id operates according to the :
a. morality principle c. pleasure principle
b. reality principle d. ego ideal
8. The id’s link to reality is called the:
a. superego b. ego-ideal c. ego d. conscious
9. The ego operates according to the:
a. morality principle c. reality principle
b. pleasure principle d. reflex principle
10. For Freud, the moral guardian of personality is :
a. the id b. the ego c. the superego d. the libido
11. The proper chronological order of Freud’s psychosexual stages is:
a. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
b. anal, oral, phallic, latency, genital
c. anal, oral, genital, latency, phallic
d. oral, anal, genital, phallic, latency
Psychoanalytic Theory
Multiple Choice- choose the letter that best answers the question asked.
1. The unique pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over
time and situations and distinguishes one person from another is called:
a. a trait b. a habit c. personality d. learning
2. Freud believed that personality is made up of conflicting psychological forces
operating at different levels of awareness. The largest and most influential level is …
a. the conscious b. the unconscious c. the ego d. the collective
3. Freud considered the ____ to be the most important drive(s) in the development of
personality.
a. aggressive instincts c. Both A and B
b. sexual instincts d. morality instincts
4. Freud believed that personality is composed of :
a. the id, the ego, and the superego
b. the conscious, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious
c. the libido, thantos, and a combination of oral and anal fixations
d. a unique pattern of traits
5. For Freud, material that we are not currently aware of, but which can be easily
recalled is in the ___ mind.
a. unconscious c. preconscious
b. collective unconscious d. conscious
6. For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the:
a. id b. ego c. superego d. persona
7. The id operates according to the :
a. morality principle c. pleasure principle
b. reality principle d. ego ideal
8. The id’s link to reality is called the:
a. superego b. ego-ideal c. ego d. conscious
9. The ego operates according to the:
a. morality principle c. reality principle
b. pleasure principle d. reflex principle
10. For Freud, the moral guardian of personality is :
a. the id b. the ego c. the superego d. the libido
11. The proper chronological order of Freud’s psychosexual stages is:
a. oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
b. anal, oral, phallic, latency, genital
c. anal, oral, genital, latency, phallic
d. oral, anal, genital, phallic, latency
