Freud: True or False

According to Freud, there are six stages of psychological development, of which three occur during the first six years of life

False

Defense mechanisms are always the conscious ego protecting behavior

False

Ego defense mechanisms are almost always unhealthy no matter how they are used

False

It has been shown that early life experiences cannot condition adult behavior

False

The Oedius complex is resolved at the beginning of the genital stage

False

The attachment of libido onto an earlier stage of development best describes the defense mechanism of fixation

False

The id strives to act in a socially appropriate manner, whereas the ego just wants instant gratification

False

Defense mechanisms defend the id against anxiety

False- dm defend the ego

According to Abraham Maslow's Theory, psychologists should study "healthy" people in order to better help the psychologically indisposed

True

Before the time of Freud and other psychologist, emotionally disturbed people were shunned or locked up in prisons

True

Freud believed that people are motivated mostly by unconscious urges

True

Freud's two great instincts or drives were sex and aggression

True

Sublimations often benefit society

True

The Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious (dynamically repressed) ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex

True

The principle source of frustration during the oral period of weaning

True

The super ego serves the idealistic and moralistic principles

True

Your friend calls you anal retentive. A Freudian explanation of how someone might become anal retentive, and how this would happen would be from mishandled potty-training

True