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1. Todd has had a crush on Donna for the past year, but he does not have the courage to ask her out. He is frustrated with himself and begins taking a kickboxing class at his local gym. Th is scenario best illustrates which defense mechanism?
2. Tom is still in love with his girlfriend, who broke up with him last week, but he acts as if he doesn’t care and is actually happy to be rid of her. Th is is an example of which of the following defense mechanisms?
3. A fi xation in the oral stage will include all of the following behaviors except:
4. Which of the following examples best illustrates the pleasure principle?
5. As infants discover that parents put restrictions on satisfying their wishes, infants learn to control their wishes. According to Freud they do this through the development of:
6. According to Freud’s psychosexual theory of development, a man’s repression of sexual urges is a result of which of the following?
7. James has been divorced twice. Now anytime he even goes out on a date with women, they tell him he is very misogynistic. James could be fi xated in what psychosexual stage of development?
8. The Freudian technique in which clients are encouraged to talk about any thoughts that enter their mind to help with uncensored talk is called:
9. According to Freud, in what stage of psychosexual development does the Oedipus complex take place?
10. The female version of the Oedipus complex is called
11. A defense mechanism is best defi ned by Freud as:
12. Grace realizes she got back an extra hundred dollars from the bank teller. She has to decide whether or not she should return to the bank and inform the bank teller of the mistake. Grace is currently in confl ict between her:
13. A three-year-old boy is rejecting his father and only wants to be around his mother. Freud would theorize the child is going through which phase?
14. Which of the following statements best illustrates rationalization?
15. Freud believed the mental process must have a source of energy called:
16. According to Freud, what is the preconscious?
17. As children learn they must follow rules and regulations in satisfying their wishes, they develop:
18. One major criticism of Freudian psychoanalytic theory is that it:
19. "Freud’s psychodynamic theory of personality emphasizes:"
20. To explain why we do things that we cannot explain, Freud used the concept of: