Module 45 LearningCurves

Huck is 3 years old and seems to struggle with his mother over everything; what to wear, when to take a bath, how to brush his teeth. According to Freud, which stage of development is he currently in?

Anal

This neo-Freudian proposed the collective unconscious.

Carl Jung

Samantha is 4 years old and seems jealous of her mother. Every time her parents go to hug each other she pushes her mother away from her father and says no. Samantha then hugs her father and sticks her tongue out at her mother. According to Freud, Samantha is demonstrating the:

Electra complex

Bryce often acts overly confident and daring. Few people realize he is actually riddled with unconscious insecurity and self-doubt. Bryce BEST illustrates the use of a defense mechanism known as:

Reaction Formation

Sigmund Freud suggested that adults with a passive and submissive personality, marked by a childlike dependence, demonstrate signs of:

an oral fixation

Researchers find that in high stress situations, it is common for the stress hormones to _____ memories of traumatic events

enhance

According to Freud, the _____ contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy the basic sexual and aggressive drives.

id

Critics of the psychoanalytic perspective believe that the unconscious involves _____ and stereotypes that automatically and unconsciously influence how people process information about themselves and others.

implicit prejudice

Jerry was frequently ill as a child, which led him to miss out on many of the activities that his peers experienced. Adler would predict that Jerry would develop a(n) _____ complex.

inferiority

Dr. Conway states that his research investigates the patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting that distinguish one person from another. Dr. Conway's research is MOST likely in the area of:

personality

The id is to the _____ principle as the ego is to _____.

pleasure; reality

In 1921, Hermann Rorschach introduced what has become the MOST widely used _____ test.

projective

The role of childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations is MOST clearly emphasized by the _____ theory of personality.

psychoanalytic

Shortly before she was to start high school, Aaliyah's family moved to another state. On the first day of school, Aaliyah's mother catches Aaliyah sucking her thumb, something that Aaliyah has not done in years. Which defense mechanism is Aaliyah using to avoid stress?

regression

The neo-Freudians disagreed with Freud in two important ways: the _____, and the role of the conscious mind.

role of sex and aggression as primary motivators

Freud suggested that there are three interacting systems that can explain the dynamics of the human mind: the id, the ego, and the _____.

superego