PSYC 387 exam 3 Questions and Verified
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The four key ideas that make up the foundation of psychoanalysis are:
Topic: n/a
a. Psychological well-being, the ability to reason, moral capacities, and mental
energy.
b. Psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy.
c. State characteristics, trait characteristics, psychological reasoning, and internal
conflict.
d. Psychic determinism, dream-space, ethics, and reason. Correct Answer: B
One of the elegant aspects of the psychoanalytic approach is that all of its
complexity is built on a relatively small set of key ideas: psychic determinism,
internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy (see "The Key Ideas of
Psychoanalysis").
Psychic determinism can be defined as:
Topic: n/a
a. The philosophy that everything people do in life is predetermined.
b. The idea that everything that happens in a person's mind—thus everything a
person thinks or does—has a cause that can be identified.
c. The idea that everything we do resonates psychically with those around us.
,d. The psychological concept that the workings of the mind are rooted in specific
chemical reactions in the brain Correct Answer: B
: Psychic determinism says that any behavior can be understood through diligence,
insight, and an application of the proper psychoanalytic framework (see "Psychic
Determinism").
A key assumption of psychoanalysis is that the brain has an internal structure made
of parts that can function _______ and, at times, ______ each other.
Topic: n/a
a. Independent; conflict
b. Together; complement
c. Simultaneously; override
d. Independent; complement Correct Answer: A
: It is important to remember the distinction between the mind and the brain: The
brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind is the psychological result of what the
brain and the rest of the body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
The id, ego, and superego are:
Topic: n/a
a. Terms that pertain to the structure of the brain.
b. Terms that pertain to our ability to judge others.
c. Terms that pertain to the structure of the mind.
d. Terms that pertain to the structure of personality experiments. Correct Answer: C
, It is important to remember the distinction between the mind and the brain: The
brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind is the psychological result of what the
brain and the rest of the body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
Ideas about the id pertain to _______, the ego to ______, and the superego to
_______.
Topic: n/a
a. The unconscious mind; the conscious mind; the rational mind
b. Impulses; impulse control; morality
c. Dreams and the imagination; morality; rational thought
d. The irrational part of the mind; the rational part of the mind; the moral part of
the mind Correct Answer: D
These definitions might not correlate exactly to the nuances of the German terms
that Freud wrote originally; another translation could be, the It, the I, and the
Over-I (see "Psychic Determinism").
Which part of the mind passes moral judgments on the other parts?
Topic: n/a
a. The id
b. The ego
c. The superego
d. The soul Correct Answer: C
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The four key ideas that make up the foundation of psychoanalysis are:
Topic: n/a
a. Psychological well-being, the ability to reason, moral capacities, and mental
energy.
b. Psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy.
c. State characteristics, trait characteristics, psychological reasoning, and internal
conflict.
d. Psychic determinism, dream-space, ethics, and reason. Correct Answer: B
One of the elegant aspects of the psychoanalytic approach is that all of its
complexity is built on a relatively small set of key ideas: psychic determinism,
internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy (see "The Key Ideas of
Psychoanalysis").
Psychic determinism can be defined as:
Topic: n/a
a. The philosophy that everything people do in life is predetermined.
b. The idea that everything that happens in a person's mind—thus everything a
person thinks or does—has a cause that can be identified.
c. The idea that everything we do resonates psychically with those around us.
,d. The psychological concept that the workings of the mind are rooted in specific
chemical reactions in the brain Correct Answer: B
: Psychic determinism says that any behavior can be understood through diligence,
insight, and an application of the proper psychoanalytic framework (see "Psychic
Determinism").
A key assumption of psychoanalysis is that the brain has an internal structure made
of parts that can function _______ and, at times, ______ each other.
Topic: n/a
a. Independent; conflict
b. Together; complement
c. Simultaneously; override
d. Independent; complement Correct Answer: A
: It is important to remember the distinction between the mind and the brain: The
brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind is the psychological result of what the
brain and the rest of the body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
The id, ego, and superego are:
Topic: n/a
a. Terms that pertain to the structure of the brain.
b. Terms that pertain to our ability to judge others.
c. Terms that pertain to the structure of the mind.
d. Terms that pertain to the structure of personality experiments. Correct Answer: C
, It is important to remember the distinction between the mind and the brain: The
brain is a physical organ, whereas the mind is the psychological result of what the
brain and the rest of the body do (see "Psychic Determinism").
Ideas about the id pertain to _______, the ego to ______, and the superego to
_______.
Topic: n/a
a. The unconscious mind; the conscious mind; the rational mind
b. Impulses; impulse control; morality
c. Dreams and the imagination; morality; rational thought
d. The irrational part of the mind; the rational part of the mind; the moral part of
the mind Correct Answer: D
These definitions might not correlate exactly to the nuances of the German terms
that Freud wrote originally; another translation could be, the It, the I, and the
Over-I (see "Psychic Determinism").
Which part of the mind passes moral judgments on the other parts?
Topic: n/a
a. The id
b. The ego
c. The superego
d. The soul Correct Answer: C
