Midterm TOP Flashcards
What is the principal source of frustration during Freud’s anal phase?
toilet training
Freud hypothesized that a permissive, accepting attitude of parents during toilet training is likely
to lead to which behaviors as the child grows into adulthood?
generosity and benevolence
The classic Freudian anal character possesses all of the following traits.
orderliness
obstinacy
stinginess
According to Freud, how is male and female psychosexual development different?
Similar until the phallic stage
What did Freud believed as the cause on why boys and girls have a different psychosexual
development?
anatomical differences between genders
What is this concept when a boy feels a strong hostility toward his father and sexual love for his
mother?
male Oedipus complex
According to Freud, what is the meaning when a girl wishes to be a boy or to have a baby?
It is an expression of penis envy
According to Freud, how would you characterize a psychologically mature person?
an ego strong enough to incorporate the superego and ego impulses
According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels. Which level is more important?
latent content
Freud believed that parapraxes or Freudian slips are
revealed unconscious intent
What is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy?
transform unconscious material into consciousness
Freud’s enduring popularity is most likely due to what reason?
gift as a writer and emphasis on sex and aggression
How can you describe Freud’s concept of humanity?
deterministic and pessimistic
Unlike Freud’s psychoanalysis, what is the primary assumption of Adler’s individual psychol
people are mostly responsible for their personalities.
What were Adler’s earliest memories concerns?
comparison with his older and healthier brother
The death of Adler’s younger brother resulted in Adler
c. deciding to become a doctor
What was the cause of Adler’s break with Freud?
Adler could not accept Freud’s strong emphasis on sexual factors as motivators of
behavior.
What was Adler’s response after experiencing the World War I?
He changed his theoretical views.
Which of the following assumptions is NOT part of Adler’s theory?
All human motivations for behavior are unconscious in origin.
Adler believed that the dynamic force motivating all human activity is?
striving for success
Adler believed that people strive for superiority
in order to compensate for feelings of inferiority
Which of the following is TRUE about feelings of inferiority?
all individuals possess them
According to Adler, what is the behavior of psychologically healthy individual?
motivated mostly by conscious goals and drives.
According to Adler, children who feel pampered.
are usually unloved and neglected by their parents.
Jade is a 20-year-old college junior who “checks in” daily with her out-of-state mother by e-mail
or telephone. Jade, who makes no decisions without consulting her mother, is a pre-med major
because her mother insists that she become a doctor. Adler would see Jade’s relationship with
her mother as a ________ one.
Parasitic
