PSY FINAL EXAM WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
The Id correct answers >> Reservoir of our most primitive
impulses, including sex and aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification
The Ego correct answers >> 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
The Superego correct answers >> our sense of morality,
sense of right and wrong
defense mechanism correct answers >> unconscious
maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
Repression correct answers >> motivated forgetting of
emotional threatening memories or impulses. EX. A person who
witnesses a traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to
remember it.
Denial correct answers >> Motivated forgetting of distressing
experiences. EX. A mother who loses a child in a car accident
insists her child is alive
, Regression correct answers >> Returning psychologically to
a younger and safer time. Ex. A college student starts sucking
their thumb during difficult exam
Reaction-formation correct answers >> 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.
Projection correct answers >> 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"
Displacement correct answers >> 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.
Rationalization correct answers >> 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
Intellectualization correct answers >> 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"
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
The Id correct answers >> Reservoir of our most primitive
impulses, including sex and aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification
The Ego correct answers >> 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
The Superego correct answers >> our sense of morality,
sense of right and wrong
defense mechanism correct answers >> unconscious
maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
Repression correct answers >> motivated forgetting of
emotional threatening memories or impulses. EX. A person who
witnesses a traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to
remember it.
Denial correct answers >> Motivated forgetting of distressing
experiences. EX. A mother who loses a child in a car accident
insists her child is alive
, Regression correct answers >> Returning psychologically to
a younger and safer time. Ex. A college student starts sucking
their thumb during difficult exam
Reaction-formation correct answers >> 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.
Projection correct answers >> 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"
Displacement correct answers >> 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.
Rationalization correct answers >> 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
Intellectualization correct answers >> 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"
