Karen Horney Theory (neurotic Need)

Question 1

develops when the parents do not satisfy the child’s need for safety and satisfaction.

Answer 1

Basic Hostility

Question 2

Plays a leading role in shaping human personality, either neurotic or healthy

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

feeling of being isolated and helpless in a word conceived as potentially hostile.

Answer 3

Basic anxiety

Question 4

4 general ways that people protect themselves against feeling of being alone.

Answer 4

1. Affection
2. Submissiveness
3. Power, Prestige, Possession
4. Withdrawal

Question 5

1. try to purchase love with self-effacing compliance, material goods, and sexual favors.

Answer 5

Affection

Question 6

2. submitting themselves to either people or institution

Answer 6

Submissiveness

Question 7

3. defense against real or imagined hostility.

Answer 7

Power, Prestige and Possession

Question 8

4. developing independence from other by becoming emotionally DETACHED TO THEM.

Answer 8

Withdrawal

Question 9

everyone uses them to guard against rejection, hostility and competitiveness.

Answer 9

Compulsive Drives

Question 10

1. The neurotic need for affection and approval
   attempt to please others.

Answer 10

1. The neurotic need for affection and approval

Question 11

2. attaching themselves for a powerful partner

Answer 11

2. The neurotic need for a power partner

Question 12

3. being contented to very little, downgrade their own abilities.

Answer 12

3. The neurotic need to restricts one’s life within narrow borders.

Question 13

4. is usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession and manifest as a need to control others.

Answer 13

4. The neurotic need for power.

Question 14

5. evaluate others on basis of how they can be used or exploited.

Answer 14

5. The neurotic need to exploit others.

Question 15

6. Trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.

Answer 15

6. The neurotic need for social recognition or prestige.

Question 16

7. need to be admired for what they are rather than foe what they have

Answer 16

7. The neurotic need for personal admiration

Question 17

8. strong drive to the best

Answer 17

8. The neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement.

Question 18

9. strong need to move away from people thereby providing can get along without others

Answer 18

9. The neurotic need for self-sufficient and independence

Question 19

10. striving relentlessly for perfection

Answer 19

10. The neurotic need for perfection and unassailability

Question 20

3 Neurotic Trends/ 3 basic Conflict

Answer 20

1. Moving toward people
2. Moving against people
3. Moving away from people

Question 21

greater emphasis on the inner conflicts that both normal and neurotic individual experience.

Answer 21

Intrapsychic Conflict

Question 22

a. attempts to solve problem by painting godlike picture of oneself.

Answer 22

a. Idealized Self- Image

Question 23

b. despises one’s real self.

Answer 23

b. Self- hatred