1) How would you characterize the way Freud viewed the disciples and followers who surrounded him? A) with unqualified trust B) with great familiarity C) with suspicion D) with a great sense of humility 2) Which of the following is an accurate description of Freud's family? A) His father was stern and humorless B) His family was Jewish C) His mother had a dull personality D) They were Russian 3) All of the following are true of Freud's time in medical school except one. Which is NOT true? A) He entered medical school at age 17. B) His grades were rather mediocre. C) His most esteemed professor believed in reductionism. D) He invented a technique for staining nervous tissue. 4) During medical school, Freud experimented with A) extrasensory perception B) goldfish C) cocaine D) bile E) both answers "A" and "C" 5) Freud became famous for his early book on A) dreams B) sexual perversion C) cocaine D) bile 6) Upon what did Freud rely in forming his theory? A) ancient Greek philosophy B) his own personal experiences C) the teaching of Francis Cobbs D) Johann Mueller's experiments Page 1 of 9
7) How did Freud feel about religion? A) He was devout. B) He was a militant atheist. C) He regarded it as an illusion. D) He refused even to discuss the topic. 8) Freud died of cancer of the mouth, probably traceable to A) a genetic disposition to cancer in his family B) his highly unusual diet C) a distinct lack of oral hygiene D) chain-smoking cigars 9) The id is A) self-sacrificing B) beyond conscious awareness C) unit that develops after age 3 D) the third personality structure to develop 10) The id operates according to the principle. A) agnostic B) operant C) pleasure D) antagonistic 11) The primary process involves A) needs to become all one can be B) conscious thoughts C) attempts to delay gratification D) wishes that demand immediate satisfaction 12) All of the following are ways to describe "libido" except one. Which is not a way to describe "libido"? A) an asexual energy B) sexual desire in the broadest sense C) physical desire D) erotic tendencies Page 2 of 9
13) The instinct "Thanatos" is associated with A) life B) death C) transcendence D) apperception E) both answers "B" and "D" 14) If you wanted to see the id operating in real life, where would you look? A) at your conscious sexual fantasies B) at the flirtatious behavior of young people C) at an infant's behavior D) at your relationship to your lovers 15) What is needed to protect the infant from its tendency to accept any available object as a means to gratify a need? A) a superego B) an id C) an archetype D) an ego 16) The ego operates according to the principle. A) pleasure B) primary instinctive C) secondary instinctive D) reality 17) The ego is guided by a higher level of mental functioning than that which guides the id. Which of the following is related to that functioning? A) displeasure B) primary process C) secondary process D) surrealism 18) Freud's definition of anxiety includes A) a central reference to explicit sexuality B) a statement of relationship to fear C) reference to unpleasant emotional discomfort D) a proposal for anxiety reduction Page 3 of 9
19) An hysterical neurosis was A) quite common B) physical symptoms designed to avoid painful experiences C) a real tumor caused by psychological problems D) episodes of crying and screaming or prolonged laughter 20) The superego is A) an arm of the id B) a mechanism for sexual gratification C) the representation of society in personality D) a storehouse of instincts 21) The superego operates according to the principle. A) reality B) primary C) pleasure D) morality 22) One of the superego's aspects or functions is equivalent to A) conscience B) the devil on one's shoulder C) rationality D) avoidance of addressing id needs F) both answers "A" and "B" G) none of the above 23) All of the following are true regarding superego operation, except one. Which is NOT true of superego operation? A) guilt B) seeking perfection C) inhibiting sexual and aggressive need D) rejecting parents' renditions of society's rules 24) An ego ideal is A) the same as an ideal ego B) internal representations of idealized parents C) consciousness restricted to peers like oneself D) a structure that mediates between the ego and the superego Page 4 of 9
25) Erogenous zones are A) the body parts that store ergs B) non-sexual zones of the body C) sensitive areas related to instinctual satisfactions D) parts of the body that are purposefully ignored because they are insensitive 26) Psychosexual refers to A) the sexuality of archetypes B) stages that are sexual in the broadest sense C) functionally autonomous stages of cognitive development D) the sexuality that occurs at adulthood 27) Regression is A) a statistical concept that Freud used to estimate loss of libidinal energy B) moving toward people C) anti-erotic D) retreating to behaviors of an earlier fixated state E) none of the above 28) Which of the following types would tend to be sarcastic and argumentative? A) oral receptive B) anal retentive C) anal expulsive D) oral aggressive 29) Which of the following types would tend to be suggestible and gullible? A) oral receptive B) anal retentive C) anal expulsive D) oral aggressive 30) Which of the following types would tend to be orderly, stingy and stubborn? A) oral receptive B) anal retentive C) anal expulsive D) oral aggressive Page 5 of 9
31) Of all the psychosexual stages, which is most central to Freud's thinking? A) oral B) intestinal C) anal D) Phallic 32) Which of the following involves the boy's attraction to his mother and desire to do his father in? A) Neurotic complex B) Inferiority complex C) Oedipal complex D) Electra complex 33) Which of the following characterizes the boy during the Phallic stage? A) genital fixation B) penis envy C) castration anxiety D) basic distrust 34) Repression 35) Rationalization 36) Projection Page 6 of 9
37) Undoing 38) Displacement B) involves finding a new target for some feelings D) is thinking intellectually rather than an emotionally 39) Anna O's symptoms included A) neurasthenia B) hives C) dissociative personality disorder D) communication only in English 40) During the latency period A) children are especially sexually active B) children are sexually disinterested C) children regress to pre-phallic stages D) children give up their fixations 41) Sublimation A) reorients instinctual aims in acceptable directions 42) During the Genital stage A) boys long for a vagina B) girls give up their attraction to males, temporarily C) girls accept the lack of a penis and identify with the vagina D) boys give up their attraction to females, temporarily E) both answers A and C Page 7 of 9
43) Manifest and latent content refer to A) the content of dreams B) sexual and asexual desire, respectively C) the content of regressed experienced D) the defense mechanism, denial 44) What technique did Freud try and abandon because it provided only temporary solutions to patients' problems? A) acupuncture B) hypnosis C) laying on of hands D) astrology 45) Which of the following is true regarding Anna O's "cure" via psychoanalysis? A) She spent nearly eight years in asylums after leaving psychoanalysis. B) She was never able to have a career. C) Ten years after leaving psychoanalysis she developed full-blown schizophrenia. D) She committed suicide five years after leaving psychoanalysis. 46) Freud's age when he received his M.D. degree was A) 17 B) 20 C) 25 D) 30 47) At an early age, Freud was ordered out of his parents bedroom by A) a protective nanny B) an outraged mother C) a jealous aunt D) an irate father 48) The superego strives for A) mastery over guilt B) 100% perfection C) love in its purest sense D) satisfaction of the ego Page 8 of 9
49) Anal-expulsive individuals A) are noted for their cleanliness B) retain things C) are devoted to "the rules" D) disregard rules of cleanliness 50) During the genital stage, energies are directed more toward A) benefiting others B) pleasure and self-enhancement C) curiosity seeking D) oral expression of the receptive type 51) Which of the following is solely below awareness (iceberg)? A) erg B) id C) ego D) superego 52) Who may have actually been responsible for the defense mechanisms? A) Adler B) Jung C) Anna Freud D) Josef Freud 53) The "ego ideal" is an internal representation of A) father B) mother C) adults D) parents 54) Which is the principle of the superego? A) pleasure B) reality C) morality D) suppression 55) According to a recent review of research on the "unconscious" A) there is no such thing B) Freud's conception of it has been completely confirmed C) the evidence is too mixed to draw firm conclusions D) it exists, but is not quite what Freud thought it was 56) With regard to his ideas, Freud A) was very open to criticism B) was very flexible regarding change C) clung to each of his notions with great tenacity D) refused to respond to criticisms regarding his ideas Page 9 of 9