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Psychology, Eighth Edition

1. Freud’s technique in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings and images as they come to mind.

• A) psychoanalysis.• B) dream interpretation.• C) free association.• D) psychotherapy.

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2. According to Freud, the real meaning of the dream could be found in its:

• A) unconscious revelation.• B) manifest content.• C) symbolic personification.• D) latent content.

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3. According to Freud, “I want it, and I want it, now,” refers to the part of the personality called the:

• A) superego.• B) id.• C) ego.• D) eros.

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4. Threatened by his own attraction to other males, Mr. Jones leads an active campaign against gay rights. He is displaying the ego defense mechanism:

• A) denial.• B) reaction formation.• C) sublimation.• D) displacement.

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5. Jung believed that the deepest part of the individual psyche is that which is shared by all people, called the:

• A) identification process.• B) fixation phenomenon.• C) Oedipus complex.• D) collective unconscious.

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6. According to Maslow, we are naturally, internally driven to be the best that we can be, achieving the goal of:

• A) self-actualization.• B) self-concept.• C) analytic insight.• D) personal betterment.

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7. Humanistic psychologists differed from psychoanalytic theorists by focusing on:

• A) reinforced behaviors.• B) unconscious motives.• C) the healthy personality.• D) early childhood influences.

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8. “I do not approve of your behavior, but I still love and value you as a person,” shows that a parent has ___ for his/her child.

• A) actualizing tendency• B) unconditional positive regard• C) compassionate parenting• D) conditional positive regard

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9. According to Humanistic Psychology, the water, sun and nutrients that nurture our personalities include all of the following, except:

• A) genuineness.• B) acceptance.• C) self-actualization.• D) empathy.

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10. A major criticism of the humanistic perspective is:

• A) it minimizes the evil side of human nature.

• B) it has no relevance to psychotherapy.• C) it discounts the ideal of a healthy

personality.• D) it is based solely on childhood memories

and conflicts.

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11. A trait is:

• A) a description of our outward appearance.

• B) a repeated pattern of behavior.• C) an unconscious motive driving our

behavior.• D) a relatively stable predisposition to act

and feel in a certain way.

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12. A test based on Carl Jung’s personality types and used by 89 of the 100 largest corporations is the:

• A) Rorschach Test.• B) TAT.• C) Myers-Briggs.• D) MMPI.

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13. According to Hans and Sybil Eysenck, personality can be described in terms of two dimensions, including stability-instability, and:

• A) intrinsic-extrinsic.• B) conscious-unconscious.• C) extroversion-introversion.• D) happy-depressed.

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14. Through factor analysis, personality theorists have more recently identified those basic traits, called:

• A) the 16PF.• B) the Big Five.• C) the MMPI.• D) fundamental personality factors.

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15. In predicting from one Big Five attribute to another, “night owls” were more likely to be:

• A) extraverts.• B) agreeable.• C) open.• D) conscientious.

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16. Bandura called the process of interacting with the environment ____.

• A) self-efficacy• B) social-cognitive• C) social-cultural• D) reciprocal determinism

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17. When someone relies on “fate” or something like astrology to choose an action implies:

• A) mental retardation.• B) an external locus of control.• C) learned helplessness.• D) an internal locus of control.

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18. When Martin Seligman experimented with dogs and electric shock, he found they eventually gave up. This was because of:

• A) external locus of control.• B) learned helplessness.• C) unstable personality.• D) reciprocal determinism.

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19. The best predictor of future behavior is to look at:

• A) the Big Five.• B) personality test results.• C) past behavior in similar situations.• D) achievement test scores.

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20. Some psychologists criticize the social-cognitive perspective because it:

• A) fails to appreciate the person’s inner traits.

• B) is too scientific.• C) is too descriptive and not testable.• D) has no relevance to psychotherapy.

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21. Teens are especially prone to this phenomenon, afraid that everyone will notice their behavior and judge it.

• A) self-efficacy• B) spotlight effect• C) self-actualization• D) self-serving bias

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22. A projective test that requires a person look at several pictures and make up stores is the:

• A) Rorschach Inkblot Test.• B) MMPI.• C) 16PF.• D) TAT.

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23. Items forming the depression scale of the MMPI were “empirically derived,” meaning:

• A) they were randomly selected from a large pool of statements.

• B) they were the most popular when people were surveyed.

• C) they were found to correlate with other measures of depression.

• D) they were selected from a large pool of items by people with depression.

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24: The most widely used personality test is the:

• A) MMPI.• B) Rorschach Inkblot Test.• C) TAT.• D) 16PF.

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25. Because its popularity of use has exceeded research on its value as a predictor, the Journal of Psychological Type has contributed to the scientific study of this test, the:

• A) Rorschach Inkblot Test.• B) MMPI.• C) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.• D) TAT.

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Answers

1. C

2. D

3. B

4. B

5. D

6. A

7. C

8. B

9. C

10. A

11. D

12. C

13. C

14. B

15. A

16. D

17. B

18. B

19. C

20. A

21. B

22. D

23. D

24. A

25. C