Lesson 5

Question 1

Mental representation or images of people

Answer 1

Object

Question 2

These are representations of specific body parts or functions of others, typically associated with pleasure or discomfort

Answer 2

Part-objects

Question 3

These are more complete representations of people, incorporating both positive and negative aspects.

Answer 3

Whole-objects

Question 4

psychic representations of unconscious id instincts.

Answer 4

Phantasies

Question 5

a way of organizing experiences that includes both paranoid feelings of being persecuted and a splitting of internal and external objects into the good and the bad.

Answer 5

Paranoid-schizoid position

Question 6

Children in the_________ recognize that the loved object and the hated object are now one and the same.

Answer 6

Depressive position

Question 7

infants fantasize taking into their body those perceptions and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast.

Answer 7

Introjection

Question 8

fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body. Allows people to believe that their own subjective opinions are true.

Answer 8

Projection

Question 9

keeping apart incompatible impulses.

Answer 9

Splitting

Question 10

infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them into another object, and finally introject them back into themselves in a changed or distorted form.

Answer 10

Projective identification

Question 11

children’s fear of retaliation from their parent for their fantasy of emptying the parent’s body.

Answer 11

Oedipus complex

Question 12

child becomes an individual separate from his or her primary caregiver, an accomplishment that leads ultimately to a sense of identity.

Answer 12

Psychological birth

Question 13

period of absolute primary narcissism in which an infant is unaware of any other person.

Answer 13

Normal Autism

Question 14

infants gradually realize that they cannot satisfy their own needs, they begin to recognize their primary caregiver and to seek a symbiotic relationship with her.

Answer 14

Normal symbiosis

Question 15

children become psychologically separated from their mothers, achieve a sense of individuation, and begin to develop feelings of personal identity.

Answer 15

Separation-individuation

Question 16

marked by a bodily breaking away from the mother-infant symbiotic orbit.

Answer 16

Differentiation

Question 17

children easily distinguish their body from their mother’s, establish a specific bond with their mother, and begin to develop an autonomous ego.

Answer 17

Practicing

Question 18

desire to bring their mother and themselves back together, both physically and psychologically.

Answer 18

Rapprochement

Question 19

children must develop a constant inner representation of their mother so that they can tolerate being physically separate from her.

Answer 19

Libidinal object constancy

Question 20

When their caregiver is first out of sight, infants will cry, resist soothing by other people, and search for their caregiver.

Answer 20

Protest stage

Question 21

infants become quiet, sad, passive, listless, and apathetic.

Answer 21

Despair

Question 22

infants become emotionally detached from other people, including their caregiver.

Answer 22

Detachment

Question 23

when their mother returns, infants are happy and enthusiastic and initiate contact.

Answer 23

Secure attachment

Question 24

when their mother leaves the room, they become unusually upset, and when their mother returns they seek contact with her but reject attempts at being soothed.

Answer 24

Anxious-resistant attachment

Question 25

infants stay calm when their mother leaves; they accept the stranger, and when their mother returns, they ignore and avoid her

Answer 25

Anxious-avoidant

Question 26

believing that young children express their conscious and unconscious wishes through________

Answer 26

Play therapy

Question 27

reduce depressive anxieties and persecutory fears and to mitigate the harshness of internalized objects

Answer 27

Kleinian therapy