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Morris is hostile,aggressive,and socially destructive.According to Carl Rogers,this behavior pattern is most likely to result from


A) a growth-inhibiting environment.
B) self-transcendence.
C) inborn personality traits.
D) unconditional positive regard.

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Neo-Freudians such as ________ were among the first to highlight a masculine bias in Freud's theories.


A) Carl Jung
B) Karen Horney
C) Alfred Adler
D) Henry Murray

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Carl Rogers emphasized that a positive self-concept is promoted by


A) self-transcendence.
B) unconditional positive regard.
C) extraversion.
D) factor analysis.

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Freud believed that the manifest content of dreams consisted of


A) repressed memories.
B) sexual and aggressive images.
C) archetypes derived from our species' universal experiences.
D) censored expressions of unconscious wishes.

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Some psychoanalysts in Freud's era believed that girls experienced unconscious sexual desires for their father during the phallic stage.These feelings,they thought,reflected


A) reaction formation.
B) an Electra complex.
C) an anal fixation.
D) a weak superego.

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Regression is a defense mechanism that involves


A) consciously expressing feelings that are the opposite of underlying unconscious impulses.
B) disguising threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
C) retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage.
D) shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward less-threatening targets.

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The theory that would most likely predict that boys raised without a father figure will have difficulty developing a strongly masculine gender identity was proposed by


A) Carl Jung.
B) Alfred Adler.
C) Karen Horney.
D) Sigmund Freud.

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By selective breeding,researchers can produce bold or shy birds.This best illustrates that some personality differences among birds are


A) among the Big Five.
B) empirically derived.
C) genetically influenced.
D) situational.

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People who typically remain quiet because they constantly fear that others will evaluate them negatively most clearly demonstrate


A) introversion.
B) agreeableness.
C) shyness.
D) self-transcendence.

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Gene spends a good deal of time bragging about his numerous sexual exploits.Freud would have suggested that Gene is fixated at the ________ stage.


A) oral
B) latency
C) phallic
D) anal

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Karen Horney,a prominent neo-Freudian,disputed Freud's assumption that women


A) have weak superegos.
B) perceive an internal locus of control.
C) have stronger sexual instincts than men.
D) never experience a phallic stage of development.

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Arjean's opinions are so dependent on what her friends think that she will swallow just about anything they tell her.Freud would have suggested that Arjean demonstrates a


A) fixation.
B) free association.
C) reaction formation.
D) collective unconscious.

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While attending college,Saeb impulsively and carelessly spends all his time and money on "wine,women,and song." Freud would have suggested that Saeb shows signs of a(n)


A) strong ego.
B) weak id.
C) Electra complex.
D) weak superego.

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Personality inventories are designed to assess several ________ at once.


A) possible selves
B) basic needs
C) repressed motives
D) traits

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According to terror-management theory,anxiety about our own mortality motivates us to enhance our


A) self-esteem.
B) collective unconscious.
C) erogenous zones.
D) free association.

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A psychotherapist instructs Dane to relax,close his eyes,and state aloud whatever thoughts come to mind no matter how trivial or absurd.The therapist is using a technique known as


A) fixation.
B) free association.
C) projection.
D) hypnosis.

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Efforts to boost someone's self-esteem with random expressions of praise in the absence of good performance is most likely to promote


A) the spotlight effect.
B) free association.
C) self-efficacy.
D) helplessness.

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Which of the following is MOST likely to be associated with high self-esteem?


A) the spotlight effect
B) self-serving bias
C) free association
D) reciprocal determinism

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Survivors' vivid memories of Nazi death camp experiences most clearly challenge Freud's concept of


A) fixation.
B) repression.
C) the Oedipus complex.
D) motivational conflict.

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Mr.Carlson is a politician who credits his past election victories to his own effective communication and hard work;he attributes his past election losses to factors beyond his control.His assessments best illustrate


A) reciprocal determinism.
B) free association.
C) self-serving bias.
D) the spotlight effect.

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