Chapter 11(Personality) Quiz 2

Question 1

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

Answer 1

Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genitial

Question 2

Oral

Answer 2

0-1.5 years

Pleasure focuses on the mouth

Question 3

Anal

Answer 3

1.5-3 years

Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination, coping with demands for control

Question 4

Phallic

Answer 4

3-6 years

Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

Question 5

Oedipus Complex

Answer 5

A boy lust/ love his mother

Question 6

Electra Complex

Answer 6

A girl lust/ love her father

Question 7

Latency

Answer 7

6-puberty

Dormant sexual feeling (no sexual interest)

Question 8

Genital

Answer 8

Puberty on

Maturation of sexual interests

Question 9

Defense Mechanisms
(Psychoanalytic theory)

Answer 9

The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

Question 10

Repression

Answer 10

The ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from awareness(unconsciously)

Question 11

Regression

Answer 11

The return, under stress, to a form of behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development

Question 12

Rationalization

Answer 12

The use of self-deceiving justifications for unacceptable behavior

Question 13

Displacement

Answer 13

The transfer of ideas and impulses from threatening or unsuitable objects to less threatening objects

Question 14

Projection

Answer 14

The thrusting of one’s own unacceptable impulses onto others so that others are assumed to harbor them

Question 15

Reaction Formation

Answer 15

Assumption of behavior in opposition to one’s genuine impulses in order to keep impulses repressed

Question 16

Denial

Answer 16

Refusal to accept the true nature of threat

Question 17

Sublimation

Answer 17

The channeling of primitive impulses into positive constructive efforts