Question: Can you post Packback questions ahead of time; say, five of them the first week and be done with it?
Answer Choices:
A. No, I must post one question per weekly interval.
B. Yes, if they are good questions.
C. The syllabus does not explain this.
Answer: A – No, I must post one question per weekly interval.
Question: What should a student do if he/she has an accommodation through Student Disability Services?
Answer Choices:
A. Provide the proper documentation to the professor at the beginning of the course so appropriate accommodations can be made.
B. Nothing, the professor should know about these things already.
Answer: A – Provide the proper documentation to the professor at the beginning of the course so appropriate accommodations can be made.
Question: The name of this course is History of Psychology. Most likely, this means which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A. It’s going to be taught as a history course.
B. I’ll probably be responsible for reading and understanding important historical articles, documents, and famous studies.
C. I’ll probably be responsible for learning historical dates, movements and cultural influences that have shaped the discipline of psychology.
D. Most likely I’ll be assigned outside articles or books relevant to the history of psychology.
E. All of the above. (Pick this one.)
Answer: E – All of the above. (Pick this one.)
Question: Who were the “capos”?
Answer Choices:
A. German officers
B. Relatives of inmates
C. Fellow Jews who worked inside the camps
D. American rescue personnel
E. German guards
Answer: C – Fellow Jews who worked inside the camps
Question: Frankl had an opportunity to flee Austria before being rounded up and sent to the concentration camps. Why didn’t he take that opportunity?
Answer Choices:
A. He lacked the necessary visas and paperwork.
B. His wife refused to leave Vienna.
C. His private practice was doing so well he couldn’t afford to leave it.
D. He remained to try to protect his parents.
E. He had a phobia of traveling.
Answer: D – He remained to try to protect his parents.
Question: Frankl writes that in the early days and weeks of camp experience, many inmates lived with the illusion of _____.
Answer Choices:
A. hope
B. retribution
C. reprieve
D. self-importance
E. identity
Answer: C – reprieve
Question: Once the initial shock of being in the camp wore off, prisoners often experienced the second stage which was characterized by _____.
Answer Choices:
A. fear
B. panic
C. psychosis
D. apathy
E. hope
Answer: D – apathy
Question: Frankl spent time in the notorious concentration camp known as Auschwitz. Where is Auschwitz located?
Answer Choices:
A. Austria
B. Czechoslovakia
C. Belarus
D. Poland
E. Ukraine
Answer: D – Poland
Question: In the midst of the horror of camp life, Frankl grasped what he considered to be the truth and the greatest secret set forth in human poetry and proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. This truth is that _____.
Answer Choices:
A. Truth and meaning can be found in working for social justice.
B. Love is the ultimate and highest goal which man can aspire.
C. The essence of mankind is devotion to a cause.
D. Meaning is found in work, even the most menial work.
Answer: B – Love is the ultimate and highest goal which man can aspire.
Question: Reflecting on whether or not man is completely influenced by his surroundings (simply a product of his environment), Frankl answers:
Answer Choices:
A. Humans will find meaning in work, regardless of their circumstances.
B. Life is ultimately absurd, live as if it is not.
C. Man continues to have a choice in choosing how to react to any environment.
D. The phrase “biology is destiny” is true.
E. It is impossible to escape from one’s psychological environment.
Answer: C – Man continues to have a choice in choosing how to react to any environment.
Question: Frankl came to realize that belief in the future was absolutely essential to holding onto one’s humanity in the camps. He quotes the phrase from the philosopher _____ who stated “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”
Answer Choices:
A. Bacon
B. Freud
C. Wittgenstein
D. Aristotle
E. Nietzsche
Answer: E – Nietzsche
Question: Frankl was interested in how camp life affects the mind and soul. This led him to observe many different behaviors and reactions. Which of the following did Frankl observe?
Answer Choices:
A. Some prisoners had a change of heart once in the camp, becoming merciless and brutal to fellow prisoners.
B. Some prisoners were able to retain their sense of decency and humanity.
C. Some prisoners did anything for survival, even betray their friends.
D. All of the above.
Answer: D – All of the above.
Question: Frankl notes that the prisoner who lost faith in the future was doomed. Which term does he use to describe the emotional death that precedes the physical death?
Answer Choices:
A. Hopelessness
B. Apathy
C. Surrender
D. Delusion
Answer: B – Apathy
Question: Suffering is part of the human condition, and some (such as those in the camps) experience more suffering than others. Regardless, Frankl counsels us to:
Answer Choices:
A. When life is difficult, try to focus on only those things that make you happy.
B. Avoid suffering and seek the “good life.”
C. Accept that suffering exists and find a way to create meaning from it.
D. Minimize suffering and focus on the positive.
E. Carry the burdens of others; don’t focus on yourself.
Answer: C – Accept that suffering exists and find a way to create meaning from it.
Question: The third stage of a prisoner’s mental reaction to camp life was ______ characterized by ______.
Answer Choices:
A. planning every escape; ingenuity
B. finding meaning through surrender; displacement
C. giving up hope of being rescued; abandonment
D. the psychology of the prisoner after his liberation; depersonalization
E. escape through contemplating suicide; delusional thinking
Answer: D – the psychology of the prisoner after his liberation; depersonalization
Question: After his camp experience, Frankl created his own school of psychological thought which he called:
Answer Choices:
A. Positive psychology
B. Logotherapy
C. Humanistic psychology
D. Realism
E. Existentialism
Answer: B – Logotherapy