PSY Final Exam questions and
answers graded A+ passed
The Id - correct answer ✔✔Reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and
aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification
The Ego - correct answer ✔✔psyche's executive and principal decision maker. Interacts with the
real world and fighting ways to resolve the competeing demands of the other two psychic
agencies.
Reality principle: delay gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet
The Superego - correct answer ✔✔our sense of morality, sense of right and wrong
defense mechanism - correct answer ✔✔unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
Repression - correct answer ✔✔motivated forgetting of emotional threatening memories or
impulses. EX. A person who witnesses a traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to
remember it.
Denial - correct answer ✔✔Motivated forgetting of distressing experiences. EX. A mother who
loses a child in a car accident insists her child is alive
Regression - correct answer ✔✔Returning psychologically to a younger and safer time. Ex. A
college student starts sucking their thumb during difficult exam
, Reaction-formation - correct answer ✔✔transforming an anxiety-producing experience into its
opposite. EX. A married man who's sexually attracted to a coworker experience hatred and
revulsion towards her.
Projection - correct answer ✔✔unconscious attribution of our negative qualitites onto others.
EX. A married man with powerful unconscious sexual impulses toward females complains that
other women are always "after him"
Displacement - correct answer ✔✔directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto
a more acceptable one EX. A golfer angrily throws his club into the woods after an easy putt.
Rationalization - correct answer ✔✔Providing reasonable-sounding explanations for
unreasonable behaviors or failures EX. A political candidate who loses an election convinces
herself that she didn't really want the position after all
Intellectualization - correct answer ✔✔Avoiding the emotions associated with anxiety-
provoking experiences by focusing on abstract and impersonal thoughts EX. A woman who's
husband cheats on her reassures herself that " according to evolutionary psychologists, men are
naturally sexually promiscuous, so there is nothing to worry about"
identification with the aggressor - correct answer ✔✔Adopting the psychological characteristics
of people we find threatening. EX. A college basketball player who initially fears his tyrannical
coach comes to admire him and adopts his dictatorial qualities
Sublimation - correct answer ✔✔Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired
and socially valued goal. EX. A boy that enjoys beating up on other children grows up to become
a successful professional boxer
Big 5 personality traits - correct answer ✔✔five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor
analyses of personality measures
answers graded A+ passed
The Id - correct answer ✔✔Reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and
aggression. Entirely unconscious.
Pleasure principle: strives for immediate gratification
The Ego - correct answer ✔✔psyche's executive and principal decision maker. Interacts with the
real world and fighting ways to resolve the competeing demands of the other two psychic
agencies.
Reality principle: delay gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet
The Superego - correct answer ✔✔our sense of morality, sense of right and wrong
defense mechanism - correct answer ✔✔unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
Repression - correct answer ✔✔motivated forgetting of emotional threatening memories or
impulses. EX. A person who witnesses a traumatic combat scene finds himself unable to
remember it.
Denial - correct answer ✔✔Motivated forgetting of distressing experiences. EX. A mother who
loses a child in a car accident insists her child is alive
Regression - correct answer ✔✔Returning psychologically to a younger and safer time. Ex. A
college student starts sucking their thumb during difficult exam
, Reaction-formation - correct answer ✔✔transforming an anxiety-producing experience into its
opposite. EX. A married man who's sexually attracted to a coworker experience hatred and
revulsion towards her.
Projection - correct answer ✔✔unconscious attribution of our negative qualitites onto others.
EX. A married man with powerful unconscious sexual impulses toward females complains that
other women are always "after him"
Displacement - correct answer ✔✔directing an impulse from a socially unacceptable target onto
a more acceptable one EX. A golfer angrily throws his club into the woods after an easy putt.
Rationalization - correct answer ✔✔Providing reasonable-sounding explanations for
unreasonable behaviors or failures EX. A political candidate who loses an election convinces
herself that she didn't really want the position after all
Intellectualization - correct answer ✔✔Avoiding the emotions associated with anxiety-
provoking experiences by focusing on abstract and impersonal thoughts EX. A woman who's
husband cheats on her reassures herself that " according to evolutionary psychologists, men are
naturally sexually promiscuous, so there is nothing to worry about"
identification with the aggressor - correct answer ✔✔Adopting the psychological characteristics
of people we find threatening. EX. A college basketball player who initially fears his tyrannical
coach comes to admire him and adopts his dictatorial qualities
Sublimation - correct answer ✔✔Transforming a socially unacceptable impulse into an admired
and socially valued goal. EX. A boy that enjoys beating up on other children grows up to become
a successful professional boxer
Big 5 personality traits - correct answer ✔✔five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor
analyses of personality measures
