Quiz form B Flashcards
According to Horney, Western society hinders people’s attempts to find love by:
Select one:
a. rewarding aggressiveness and competitiveness.
b. rewarding failure.
c. instilling feelings of free choice.
d. rewarding aggressiveness and competitiveness and instilling feelings of free choice.
e. none of the choices are correct.
d. rewarding aggressiveness and competitiveness and instilling feelings of free choice.
Bandura calls situations in life beyond one’s deliberate control:
Select one:
a. chance encounters.
b. fortuitous events.
c. destiny.
d. chance encounters and fortuitous events.
d. chance encounters and fortuitous events.
Which Sullivanian needs must be satisfied for the general well being of the organism? Select one: a. survival b. dynamic c. interpersonal Incorrect d. general e. zonal
d. general
For May, neurotic symptoms: Select one: a. represent a failure in adjustment. b. preserve one's Dasein c. decrease ontological guilt. d. lead to agape.
b. preserve one’s Dasein
Thorndike’s original law of effect stated that:
Select one:
a. responses that are followed immediately by a satisfier tend to be stamped in.
b. responses that are followed immediately by an annoyer tend to be stamped out.
c. both a and b are correct.
d. none of the above are correct.
c. both a and b are correct.
McCrae and Costa (1996) objected to earlier personality theories as over-relying on:
Select one:
a. laboratory evidence.
b. factor analysis.
c. theory.
d. clinical experiences and armchair speculation.
d. clinical experiences and armchair speculation.
In Jungian psychology, the ego is to consciousness as the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is to the whole personality. Select one: a. unconscious b. collective unconscious c. libido d. self e. conscious
d. self )
Skinner’s technique of “doing something else” is used:
Select one:
a. solely with self-control.
b. solely with social control.
c. with either self-control or social control.
d. with neither self-control nor social control.
a. solely with self-control.
In psychoanalytic theory, unacceptable drives and impulses are repressed by the: Select one: a. id. b. aggressive drive. c. superego. d. ego at the urging of the superego. e. ego-ideal.
d. ego at the urging of the superego.
Adler would see an individual’s inconsistent behaviour as:
Select one:
a. evidence of a variety of basic motives.
b. a person’s attempt to strive for superiority.
c. a symptom of schizophrenia.
d. a conscious means of acquiring social interest.
b. a person’s attempt to strive for superiority.
Erikson's core pathology of the play age is: Select one: a. inferiority. b. shame. c. doubt. d. inhibition. e. aimlessness.
d. inhibition.
Which did Fromm not list as a sadistic tendency?
Select one:
a. the need to accept criticism from others
b. the need to gain power over others
c. the need to exploit and use others
d. the desire to see others suffer
e. none of the choices
a. the need to accept criticism from others Correct(ch07)
The purpose of Kelly’s fixed-role therapy is to:
Select one:
a. solve specific problems.
b. reconstruct permeable personal constructs.
c. allow clients to discover hidden aspects of themselves.
d. help clients function more productively in their jobs.
e. help clients function more productively in their marriages.
c. allow clients to discover hidden aspects of themselves.
Bandura believes that cognition:
Select one:
a. is solely responsible for behaviour.
b. serves as an autonomous force within the person.
c. is determined by behaviour and environment.
d. both a and b are correct.
e. a, b, and c are all correct.
c. is determined by behaviour and environment.
For Rotter, the component “freedom of movement” is analogous to the more specific concept of: Select one: a. behavioral potential. b. needs. c. reinforcement value. d. need potential. e. expectancy
e. expectancy
“A widening commitment to take care of the persons, the products, and the ideas one has learned to care for” is what Erikson called: Select one: a. intimacy. b. care. c. procreativity. d. generativity. e. generalized sensuality.
b. care.
Mischel suggests that one reason why our behaviour tends to be inconsistent is that we:
Select one:
a. have no unifying master motive.
b. have difficulty predicting the behaviour of others.
c. lack a consistent philosophy of life.
d. answers a, b, and c are all correct.
e. none of the above choices are correct.
b. have difficulty predicting the behaviour of others.
Research by Hazan and Shaver found that people whose adult love relationships include trust, closeness, and positive emotions had which early childhood attachment style? Select one: a. neurotic symbiotic b. anxious-resistant c. secure d. anxious-avoidant
c. secure
According to Jung, individuation, or self-realization:
Select one:
a. is common among young people.
b. requires inflating the ego.
c. involves replacing the ego with the self.
d. develops one function exclusively.
c. involves replacing the ego with the self.
Sullivan believed that intimacy should develop during:
a. infancy.
b. childhood.
c. the juvenile era.
d. preadolescence.
e. early adolescence.
d. preadolescence.
The ultimate value of any theory depends on its: Select one: a. usefulness. b. truthfulness. c. reliability. d. simplicity.
a. usefulness.
which statement best characterizes the relationship between a theory and a hypothesis?
Select one:
a. A theory is narrower than a hypothesis.
b. A theory is directly verifiable, a hypothesis is not.
c. A theory is logically deduced from a specific hypothesis.
d. A theory may generate one or more hypotheses
d. A theory may generate one or more hypotheses
For Maslow, coping behaviour is usually: Select one: a. learned. b. conscious. c. effortful. d. all the choices are correct.
d. all the choices are correct.
Allport favoured a view of personality that regards behaviour as: Select one: a. proactive. b. reactive. c. homeostatic. d. learned. e. nonscientific.
a. proactive.
According to Freud’s theory, anxiety:
Select one:
a. results from repression of libidinal impulses.
b. represents one type of defense mechanism.
c. instigates repression.
d. is a property of the superego.
e. is felt by the id.
c. instigates repression.
Horney believed that neurotics move toward people because they experience: Select one: a. deep feelings of helplessness. b. painful feelings of inferiority. c. painful feelings of isolation. d. deep feelings of love and affection.
a. deep feelings of helplessness.
The transformation of instinctual drives into socially productive forces, such as art, science, and religion, is what Freud called: Select one: a. regression. b. rationalization. c. sublimation. d. acting out. e. isolation.
c. sublimation.
For May, the source of humanity's most intense pleasure and its most pervasive anxiety is: Select one: a. care. b. sex. c. eros. d. nonbeing.
b. sex.
Freud hypothesized that a permissive, accepting attitude of parents during toilet training is likely to lead to which behaviours as the child grows to adulthood?
Select one:
a. generosity and benevolence
b. stubbornness, compulsiveness, and miserliness
c. masochism and/or sadism
d. sexual dysfunction and aggression
a. generosity and benevolence
Which object relations theorist spent much time observing normal babies as they bonded with their mothers during the first 3 years of life? Select one: a. Melanie Klein b. Margaret Mahler c. Otto Kernberg d. Heinz Kohut
b. Margaret Mahler
According to Bandura, disengagement of internal control is most likely to occur when:
Select one:
a. a lawbreaker on trial attempts to convince the judge or jury of her innocence.
b. an otherwise law-abiding citizen attempts to convince himself that his criminal acts are justified.
c. the unconscious mind gains control of the conscious mind.
d. the conscious mind gains control of the unconscious mind.
b. an otherwise law-abiding citizen attempts to convince himself that his criminal acts are justified.
Skinner believed that people:
Select one:
a. can design a society that will produce psychologically healthy personalities.
b. are by nature good and self-directed.
c. are by nature bad and must be controlled to protect society from their criminal behaviour.
d. will become loving, self-directed, and self-actualizing when all their basic needs are satisfied.
a. can design a society that will produce psychologically healthy personalities.
Fromm called our capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity: Select one: a. self-awareness. b. a sense of identity. c. transcendence. d. a frame of orientation. Feedback
b. a sense of identity.
or Fromm, the relatively permanent way in which people relate to themselves and to the world is called: Select one: a. character. b. transcendence. c. personality. d. reception.
a. character.
Bandura reasons that if behaviour were completely a function of the environment:
Select one:
a. the capacity for self-consciousness would not exist.
b. behaviour would be totally consistent and unchanging.
c. reciprocal determinism would control behaviour.
d. behaviour would be more varied and less consistent.
d. behaviour would be more varied and less consistent.
For Fromm, psychologically disturbed people have:
Select one:
a. received too much love from their mothers.
b. have failed to establish union with others.
c. have failed to resolve their normal Oedipus complex.
d. answers a and c are both correct.
e. answers a and b are both correct.
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b. have failed to establish union with others.
Maslow assumed that:
Select one:
a. motivation is usually complex.
b. people are continually motivated by one need or another.
c. people in different cultures are motivated by the same basic needs or desires.
d. all the choices are correct.
d. all the choices are correct.
In a state of disorganization, people's behaviour may be consistent with their: Select one: a. actualizing tendency. b. shattered self-concept. c. formative tendency. d. disorganizational tendency.
b. shattered self-concept.
For May, freedom of being is synonymous with: Select one: a. existential freedom. b. essential freedom. c. freedom of action. d. freedom from destiny. e. intentional freedom.
b. essential freedom.