PCN-107 Midterm UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Preconsciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/Psychoanalysis: The
___________________
houses all memory that has been lost to consciousness but can be accessed and remembered with
relative ease
Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud: Psychoanalysis: all of our feelings,
thoughts, fantasies, and behaviors of which we are aware, is a small part of what Freud believed
motivates the individual
Unconsciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: more primitive mind,
however, is the true motivator of our underlying desires and wants. The
_____________________ is driven by our id energy, which is comprised of our instincts
Defense Mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ psychoanalysis: we are inherently
driven to satisfy our needs, placing restraints is unnatural and will inevitably lead to neurotic and
even psychotic behavior as the individual attempts to control his or her urges through the use of
______________. Healthy when assist the individual in functioning in adaptive ways in society;
however, they become pathological when they are overused and result in behaviors that impair
everyday living.
Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: Moral, Neurotic, Realistic
Psychosexual Stages of Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psyschoanalysis:
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital stages
Oedipus Complex - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: desire to sleep with or
possess one's mother and kill one's father
, Dream Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: _________ are a
projection of our unconscious and represent symbolic images of our desires and wishes
ID - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: All of the psychic energy from our
life and death instincts comprise the ___—or more literally, "the it." We are born all ____, and
Freud believed that the _____, sometimes called the primitive mind, unconsciously motivates
almost all of our behaviors. The ___ operates from raw, irrational impulses called primary
process, and is fueled by the pleasure principle, whose aim is to reduce tension through the
simplest means possible
Ego - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: without an id, the _____ has no
function. Called the "I" by Freud, the ______ develops sometime after the infant is born as the
child begins to wrestle with the external world of reality. Partly conscious, but also operating out
of the precociousness and unconscious, the manner in which the _____ functions is often called
secondary process (created secondarily after the id has formed). The main function of the ____ is
to temper the id by finding socially acceptable ways to meet the demands of the id.
Superego - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ psychoanalysis: MORAL IMPERATIVES (our
moral compass) internalization of the moral imperatives of our parents and other significant
others, and led to the development of a personal conscience. Freud believed that the _______
emerged from the individual's Oedipal struggle. Operates out of unconscious and precociousness.
Contains the "beast within."
Transeference - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: clients putting their
feelings on counselors. Sometimes forming a "false connection"
Countertransference - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: the therapist
transfers feelings onto the client.
Collective Unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER - Jung/ Analytical: a depository of
ancient images which we all hold in common.
Archetypes - CORRECT ANSWER - Jung/ Analytical: tendency to differentiate aspects of
the person. Create complexes. Makes us "human"
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Preconsciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/Psychoanalysis: The
___________________
houses all memory that has been lost to consciousness but can be accessed and remembered with
relative ease
Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud: Psychoanalysis: all of our feelings,
thoughts, fantasies, and behaviors of which we are aware, is a small part of what Freud believed
motivates the individual
Unconsciousness - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: more primitive mind,
however, is the true motivator of our underlying desires and wants. The
_____________________ is driven by our id energy, which is comprised of our instincts
Defense Mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ psychoanalysis: we are inherently
driven to satisfy our needs, placing restraints is unnatural and will inevitably lead to neurotic and
even psychotic behavior as the individual attempts to control his or her urges through the use of
______________. Healthy when assist the individual in functioning in adaptive ways in society;
however, they become pathological when they are overused and result in behaviors that impair
everyday living.
Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: Moral, Neurotic, Realistic
Psychosexual Stages of Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psyschoanalysis:
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital stages
Oedipus Complex - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: desire to sleep with or
possess one's mother and kill one's father
, Dream Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: _________ are a
projection of our unconscious and represent symbolic images of our desires and wishes
ID - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: All of the psychic energy from our
life and death instincts comprise the ___—or more literally, "the it." We are born all ____, and
Freud believed that the _____, sometimes called the primitive mind, unconsciously motivates
almost all of our behaviors. The ___ operates from raw, irrational impulses called primary
process, and is fueled by the pleasure principle, whose aim is to reduce tension through the
simplest means possible
Ego - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: without an id, the _____ has no
function. Called the "I" by Freud, the ______ develops sometime after the infant is born as the
child begins to wrestle with the external world of reality. Partly conscious, but also operating out
of the precociousness and unconscious, the manner in which the _____ functions is often called
secondary process (created secondarily after the id has formed). The main function of the ____ is
to temper the id by finding socially acceptable ways to meet the demands of the id.
Superego - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ psychoanalysis: MORAL IMPERATIVES (our
moral compass) internalization of the moral imperatives of our parents and other significant
others, and led to the development of a personal conscience. Freud believed that the _______
emerged from the individual's Oedipal struggle. Operates out of unconscious and precociousness.
Contains the "beast within."
Transeference - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: clients putting their
feelings on counselors. Sometimes forming a "false connection"
Countertransference - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud/ Psychoanalysis: the therapist
transfers feelings onto the client.
Collective Unconscious - CORRECT ANSWER - Jung/ Analytical: a depository of
ancient images which we all hold in common.
Archetypes - CORRECT ANSWER - Jung/ Analytical: tendency to differentiate aspects of
the person. Create complexes. Makes us "human"
