PSYC 387 Actual Exam sample Questions with
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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.
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
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
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.
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
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
C
The superego passes judgments based on a complex mixture of all the different moral lessons
learned directly and by example from everyone a person has ever identified with (see "Internal
Structure").
Complete Solutions
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
C
The superego passes judgments based on a complex mixture of all the different moral lessons
learned directly and by example from everyone a person has ever identified with (see "Internal
Structure").
