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1
Psychoanalytic doctrine is based in part on Freud's analysis of his own dreams.
A)True
B)False
2
Freud regarded himself mostly as a philosopher.
A)True
B)False
3
Freud's data were based mostly on experimental investigation.
A)True
B)False
4
Freud's lifelong friendship with Carl Jung greatly influenced the final shape of psychoanalysis.
A)True
B)False
5
Unlike many of his other theories, Freud never changed his famous seduction theory.
A)True
B)False
6
Freud believed that people are motivated mostly by unconscious urges.
A)True
B)False
7
Ideas that are not conscious but that can become so quite easily are said by Freud to belong to the preconscious.
A)True
B)False
8
The superego serves the idealistic and moralistic principles.
A)True
B)False
9
Psychoanalysis rests on two great instincts or drives sex and hunger.
A)True
B)False
10
The aim of an instinct is to seek pleasure.
A)True
B)False
11
Neurotic anxiety stems from the ego's dependence on the id.
A)True
B)False
12
Defense mechanisms defend the id against anxiety.
A)True
B)False
13
Repressions are the most basic of the defense mechanisms because they underlie all other defense mechanisms.
A)True
B)False
14
The permanent attachment of libido onto an earlier stage of development best describes the defense mechanism of fixation.
A)True
B)False
15
Sublimations often benefit society.
A)True
B)False
16
A source of frustration during the oral period is weaning.
A)True
B)False
17
For boys, the Oedipus complex occurs prior to the castration complex.
A)True
B)False
18
For girls, the Oedipus complex occurs prior to the castration complex.
A)True
B)False
19
During the 1880's, Freud's practice of psychotherapy was much more passive than it would become decades later.
A)True
B)False
20
Freud's theory rates high on falsifiability.
A)True
B)False





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