PSYC 140 MODULE 1 COMPLETE TEST PAPER
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Ego:
Answer: conscious, emerges at infancy. Preconscious. Operates on
the reality principle.
Develops as children learn that not all desires can be fulfilled
◉ Superego:
Answer: functions like a conscience, emerges at early childhood.
Child's internalization of social norms and standards.
◉ Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Answer: Personality development progresses through stages that
are named after the bodily area from which a person of a particular
age centers her pleasure and enjoyment.
Either deriving too much pleasure or getting too little pleasure in a
particular stage can cause a person to become stuck.
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages.
◉ Oral Stage (0-18 months)
,Answer: Children derive their primary pleasure through their
mouths.
Children in this stage are primarily functioning in response to their
id impulses.
Behavioral indicators that an adult has a fixated oral personality
might also be smoking or chewing gum or constantly biting one's
fingernails.
◉ Anal Stage (18 months- 3 years):
Answer: Children derive pleasure from learning to control their
bodies, and by extension, to control the environment around them.
They can choose to eliminate their bowels or not, and so gain control
of themselves and their environment.
◉ Anal Retentive Personality
Answer: Characterized by a high need for orderliness and
cleanliness in one's environment.
◉ Anal Expulsive Personality
Answer: Characterized by exerting control over surroundings by
leaving belongings scattered and messy.
◉ Causes of Anal Fixations
, Answer: Difficulties with toilet training, whether training too late or
traumatically too early. All of which are about control.
◉ Phallic Stage (3-6 years):
Answer: During this stage of development, the zone from which
pleasure is derived is the genitalia, specifically the penis.
◉ Penis envy
Answer: once girls realize that boys have a penis and they don't &
are missing this significant feature.
BUT once boys realize they have a penis & girls don't, they believe
that girls must have lost their penis & they become overly focused on
keeping theirs.
◉ Oedipal conflict
Answer: a series of steps where boys turn their affections toward
their mothers and desire them sexually.
◉ Castration anxiety
Answer: where boys fear that they will be emasculated by their
fathers.
It is the internalization of the external standards of masculinity that
helps boys to develop a superego.
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Ego:
Answer: conscious, emerges at infancy. Preconscious. Operates on
the reality principle.
Develops as children learn that not all desires can be fulfilled
◉ Superego:
Answer: functions like a conscience, emerges at early childhood.
Child's internalization of social norms and standards.
◉ Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development:
Answer: Personality development progresses through stages that
are named after the bodily area from which a person of a particular
age centers her pleasure and enjoyment.
Either deriving too much pleasure or getting too little pleasure in a
particular stage can cause a person to become stuck.
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages.
◉ Oral Stage (0-18 months)
,Answer: Children derive their primary pleasure through their
mouths.
Children in this stage are primarily functioning in response to their
id impulses.
Behavioral indicators that an adult has a fixated oral personality
might also be smoking or chewing gum or constantly biting one's
fingernails.
◉ Anal Stage (18 months- 3 years):
Answer: Children derive pleasure from learning to control their
bodies, and by extension, to control the environment around them.
They can choose to eliminate their bowels or not, and so gain control
of themselves and their environment.
◉ Anal Retentive Personality
Answer: Characterized by a high need for orderliness and
cleanliness in one's environment.
◉ Anal Expulsive Personality
Answer: Characterized by exerting control over surroundings by
leaving belongings scattered and messy.
◉ Causes of Anal Fixations
, Answer: Difficulties with toilet training, whether training too late or
traumatically too early. All of which are about control.
◉ Phallic Stage (3-6 years):
Answer: During this stage of development, the zone from which
pleasure is derived is the genitalia, specifically the penis.
◉ Penis envy
Answer: once girls realize that boys have a penis and they don't &
are missing this significant feature.
BUT once boys realize they have a penis & girls don't, they believe
that girls must have lost their penis & they become overly focused on
keeping theirs.
◉ Oedipal conflict
Answer: a series of steps where boys turn their affections toward
their mothers and desire them sexually.
◉ Castration anxiety
Answer: where boys fear that they will be emasculated by their
fathers.
It is the internalization of the external standards of masculinity that
helps boys to develop a superego.
