Psychoanalytic with answers

Question: Which of the following was considered a positive contribution of Gestalt psychology?

Answer Choices:

A. It moved psychology closer to elementism.

B. It demonstrated the organizational nature of perception.

C. It demonstrated that introspection could not be used if psychology was to become an objective science.

D. It demonstrated the importance of evolution to psychological development.

Answer: B – It demonstrated the organizational nature of perception.

Question: The first American hospital dedicated specifically to the care of the mentally ill was and was located in .

Answer Choices:

A. Bedlam; New York, NY

B. Public Hospital; Williamsburg, VA

C. Pilgrim Psychiatric Center; Long Island, NY

D. St. Elizabeth’s; Washington D.C.

E. McLean Hospital; Belmont, MA

Answer: B – Public Hospital; Williamsburg, VA

Question: Kraepelin originally called which of the following mental illnesses dementia praecox?

Answer Choices:

A. Alzheimer’s

B. Addison’s disease

C. hysteria

D. depression

E. Schizophrenia

Answer: E – Schizophrenia

Question: Witmer is credited with which of the following?

Answer Choices:

A. Creating psychoanalysis

B. Founding the profession of neurobiology

C. Developing the first psychological test

D. Founding the profession of clinical psychology

Answer: D – Founding the profession of clinical psychology

Question: The widespread acceptance of the medical model of mental illness in modern times has resulted in:

Answer Choices:

A. accepting the enigmatic nature of mental illness

B. discouraging a search for psychological causes of mental illness

C. explaining mental illness in terms of a person’s conflicts, frustrations, and emotional disturbances

D. analyzing how environmental factors impact psychological well-being

Answer: B – discouraging a search for psychological causes of mental illness

Question: According to Szasz, psychiatry can be a worthy profession if it:

Answer Choices:

A. attempts to cure patients of mental illness

B. accepts the medical model of mental illness

C. helps clients better understand themselves, others, and life

D. recognizes that mentally ill people must be segregated from other members of society

Answer: C – helps clients better understand themselves, others, and life

Question: Who is considered the founder of neurology and where was his practice?

Answer Choices:

A. Sigmund Freud; the Vienna General Hospital

B. Thomas Szasz; the Mayo Clinic

C. Jean-Martin Charcot; Salpêtrière Hospital

D. Paul Broca; Psychiatric Hospital Laeckoschière

Answer: C – Jean-Martin Charcot; Salpêtrière Hospital

Question: Who made the phenomenon of neuro-hypnology (later shortened to “hypnosis”) respectable within the medical community?

Answer Choices:

A. Mesmer

B. Esdaile

C. Braid

D. Elliotson

Answer: C – Braid

Question: What important lesson did Freud learn from Charcot?

Answer Choices:

A. Hypnotizability is a sign of mental pathology.

B. Only something physical can influence something physical.

C. Hysteria is best explained as malingering.

D. Psychological disorders can cause physical problems.

Answer: D – Psychological disorders can cause physical problems.

Question: Who is credited as the first to discover the processes of sublimation, repression, and resistance?

Answer Choices:

A. Herbart

B. Leibniz

C. Schopenhauer

D. Freud

Answer: C – Schopenhauer

Question: According to the text, Freud’s most original contribution to psychology was the:

Answer Choices:

A. concept of infantile sexuality

B. concept of the unconscious mind

C. synthesizing of many known facts into a comprehensive theory of personality

D. interpretation of dreams

Answer: C – synthesizing of many known facts into a comprehensive theory of personality

Question: The ego is governed by the ____ principle.

Answer Choices:

A. pleasure

B. reality

C. primary

D. Oedipal

Answer: B – reality

Question: What is the fundamental ego defense mechanism because it is involved in all of the other defense mechanisms?

Answer Choices:

A. Sublimation

B. Projection

C. Identification

D. Repression

Answer: D – Repression

Question: Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Loftus’s position concerning repressed memories?

Answer Choices:

A. They exist more in the minds of psychotherapists than in the minds of patients.

B. Males tend to repress memories of childhood sexual abuse more than females.

C. Females tend to repress memories of childhood memories of sexual abuse more than males.

D. Recovering repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse should be the single most important goal of psychotherapy.

Answer: A – They exist more in the minds of psychotherapists than in the minds of patients.

Question: Anna Freud not only perpetuated her father’s ideas, she extended them into new areas such as:

Answer Choices:

A. child analysis

B. marriage counseling

C. confidence building

D. the treatment of depression

Answer: A – child analysis

Question: Melanie Klein believed that children as young as two years of age could be psychoanalyzed by examining their:

Answer Choices:

A. dreams

B. free associations

C. play activities

D. parents

Answer: C – play activities

Question: According to Anna Freud, when a person adopts the values of a feared person, it is called:

Answer Choices:

A. altruistic surrender

B. synchronicity

C. identification with the aggressor

D. displacement of the ego

Answer: C – identification with the aggressor

Question: The major source of difficulty between Jung and Freud was their differing views of the libido. Freud saw the libido as , while Jung saw the libidinal energy as .

Answer Choices:

A. sexual energy; a creative life force

B. creative life force; sexual energy

C. aggressive energy; growth energy

D. sexual energy; growth energy

Answer: A – sexual energy; a creative life force

Question: For Jung, dream analysis:

Answer Choices:

A. provides a window to the collective unconscious

B. helps us understand the ego

C. helps determine which aspects of the psyche were being adequately expressed and which were not

D. provides a way to understand the interaction of the animus and the anima

Answer: C – helps determine which aspects of the psyche were being adequately expressed and which were not

Psychoanalytic with answers

Question: Which of the following was considered a positive contribution of Gestalt psychology?

Question: The first American hospital dedicated specifically to the care of the mentally ill was ____ and was located in ____.

Question: Kraepelin originally called which of the following mental illnesses dementia praecox?

Question: Witmer is credited with which of the following?

Question: The widespread acceptance of the medical model of mental illness in modern times has resulted in:

Question: According to Szasz, psychiatry can be a worthy profession if it:

Question: Who is considered the founder of neurology and where was his practice?

Question: Who made the phenomenon of neuro-hypnology (later shortened to “hypnosis”) respectable within the medical community?

Question: What important lesson did Freud learn from Charcot?

Question: Who is credited as the first to discover the processes of sublimation, repression, and resistance?

Question: According to the text, Freud’s most original contribution to psychology was the:

Question: The ego is governed by the ____ principle.

Question: What is the fundamental ego defense mechanism because it is involved in all of the other defense mechanisms?

Question: Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Loftus’s position concerning repressed memories?

Question: Anna Freud not only perpetuated her father’s ideas, she extended them into new areas such as:

Question: Melanie Klein believed that children as young as two years of age could be psychoanalyzed by examining their:

Question: According to Anna Freud, when a person adopts the values of a feared person, it is called:

Question: The major source of difficulty between Jung and Freud was their differing views of the libido. Freud saw the libido as ____, while Jung saw the libidinal energy as ____.

Question: For Jung, dream analysis:

Question: The first American hospital dedicated specifically to the care of the mentally ill was and was located in .

Question: The major source of difficulty between Jung and Freud was their differing views of the libido. Freud saw the libido as , while Jung saw the libidinal energy as .