Learning Check: Klein Flashcards
According to John Bowlby, both humans and other primates experience separation anxiety. The stage unique to humans is the _____ stage.
A. Protest
B. Attachment
C. Despair
D. Detachment
D. Detachment
Margaret Mahler believed that when infants realize that they cannot satisfy their own basic needs, they ____
A. Merge their ego with their superego.
B. Reject those needs and introject a new set of learned needs.
C. Seek a symbiotic relationship with their mother
D. Become autistic
C. Seek a symbiotic relationship with their mother
True or False: Projective identification is a means of reducing anxiety by splitting off unacceptable parts of one’s self and projecting them onto another object, and then introjecting them back into the self in a disguised form.
True
True or False: Introjection allows infants to keep apart the good and bad aspects of themselves or of external objects
False
True or False: According to Klein, infants adopt several psychic defense mechanisms to protect their ego against anxiety aroused by their own destructive fantasies
True
True or False: Object relations theory holds that human contact and relatedness plus sexual pleasure are the principal motivators of human behavior
False
Heinz Kohut’s narcissistic needs include:
A. The need to be first in the eyes of one’s parents.
B. The need to exhibit the grandiose self
C. The needs for power and authority.
D. The need to acquire a sense of self-identity
B. The need to exhibit the grandiose self
An infant remains calm when her mother exits the room, leaving her with a stranger. When the mother returns, the infant ignores her. According to Mary Ainsworth, this infant is displaying the _____ attachment style.
A. Anxious-resistant
B. Insecure
C. Secure
D. Anxious-avoidant
D. Anxious-avoidant
The aim of Kleinian therapy is to:
A. Mitigate the harshness of internalized objects.
B. Uncover repressed sexual feelings toward one’s parents
C. Resolve the Oedipus complex.
D. Enhance feelings of self-esteem and self-worth
A. Mitigate the harshness of internalized objects.
True or False: During the first few months of life, an infant experiences both a good breast (one that offers nourishment and contentment) and a bad breast (one that frustrates the infant).
True
