PSYC 387 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
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. - ANS 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 - ANS B
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,: 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 - ANS 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. - ANS 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
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, 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 -
ANS 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 - ANS 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").
You are faced with an internal dilemma: You want to eat an ice cream sundae because they are
delicious; at the same time, you feel like you don't deserve an ice cream sundae because you
haven't been keeping up with your reading assignments in The Personality Puzzle. In
psychoanalytic terms, you are experiencing:
Topic: n/a
a. A lack of mental energy.
b. Psychic conflict.
c. A conflict of emotional reasoning.
d. Reasonable decision-making.
e. An over-preponderance of guilt - ANS B
Because the mind is divided into independent parts, it can conflict with itself (see "Psychic
Conflict and Compromise").
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ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
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. - ANS 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 - ANS B
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,: 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 - ANS 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. - ANS 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
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, 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 -
ANS 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 - ANS 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").
You are faced with an internal dilemma: You want to eat an ice cream sundae because they are
delicious; at the same time, you feel like you don't deserve an ice cream sundae because you
haven't been keeping up with your reading assignments in The Personality Puzzle. In
psychoanalytic terms, you are experiencing:
Topic: n/a
a. A lack of mental energy.
b. Psychic conflict.
c. A conflict of emotional reasoning.
d. Reasonable decision-making.
e. An over-preponderance of guilt - ANS B
Because the mind is divided into independent parts, it can conflict with itself (see "Psychic
Conflict and Compromise").
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