LPC EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Freud's Superego Answer: ego ideal; the moral component of
personality that incorporates social standards about what
represents right and wrong; the ideal
◉ Lazarus Answer: Behaviorist; Multimodal therapy; Basic ID
(Think Lazarus didn't have to wear an ID--he wore a shroud);
Behavior; Affective responses; Sensations; Imagery; Cognitions;
Interpersonal relationships; Drugs
◉ Perry Answer: dualistic thinking by teens; black and white; later
relativism
◉ Keagan Answer: construct reality thru life span; think KELLOG
cereal you eat all your life and in childhood you aren't sure what's
real or fantasy
,◉ idiographic approach Answer: intensive studies of individuals
◉ Nomothetic approach Answer: examines personality in large
groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about
personality structure; think NORMS
◉ John B. Watson Answer: father of American behaviorism
◉ Milton Erickson Answer: hypnosis & work with Haley
◉ Erik Erikson Answer: 8 Epigenetic, psychosocial stages; identity
crisis
◉ Lorenz Answer: critical period and imprinting (mother/goslings)
◉ Seligman Answer: learned helplessness (think, a MAN's LEG hurt)
◉ Kohlberg Answer: moral development; 3 levels each with 2 stages
Preconventional (reward/punish); Conventional (social);
Postconventional (self-accepted principles)
,◉ Heinz Dilemma Answer: Kohlberg: moral choices--scenarios: Man
needs drug to save wife's life. Drug is too expensive so man steals it.
(Think-- Heinz ketchup is drug)
◉ Identity crisis Answer: Erikson
◉ Harry Stack Sullivan Answer: Psychiatry of Interpersonal
Relations- a stage theory for childhood development. parents to
child Good Me; Bad Me (think a STACK of Uno cards of STAGES)
◉ John Bowlby Answer: bonding and attachment; object loss
(protest; despair; detachment); think a BOW curves around an
arrow
◉ Harry Harlow Answer: Studied attachment in monkeys with
artificial mothers
◉ Coopersmith Answer: conducted an experiment on parenting
styles and self-esteem to find that authoritative parents produce
children with the highest self-esteem and indulgent parents produce
children with the lowest self-esteem. CLEAR rules important; Think
Dr. COOPER helped us to see CLEARLY
, ◉ Eleanor Gibson Answer: The "visual cliff" experiment. Showed
that depth perception cues are innate. Think: ELEANOR started
down a slippery slope.
◉ John Locke Answer: Empiricism; people learn from experiences;
Think--John LOCKE learned which KEY worked
◉ Object permanence & stranger anxiety Answer: 8 months age
approx.
◉ Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal
operational Answer: birth to 2 years; 2 to 7 years; 7 to 12 years; 12
years plus
◉ Havinghurst Answer: Developmental tasks for each dev. stage;
Think: TASKS you HAVE to do.
◉ Loevinger Answer: stretched Piaget's model of development into
stages of adulthood. Believed Ego adapts to demands and is an
important basis for critical thinking. Highest level is integrated
(think LOVE Freud because of his ego)
◉ Positive Reinforcement Answer: Add something AFTER to
increase behavior
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Freud's Superego Answer: ego ideal; the moral component of
personality that incorporates social standards about what
represents right and wrong; the ideal
◉ Lazarus Answer: Behaviorist; Multimodal therapy; Basic ID
(Think Lazarus didn't have to wear an ID--he wore a shroud);
Behavior; Affective responses; Sensations; Imagery; Cognitions;
Interpersonal relationships; Drugs
◉ Perry Answer: dualistic thinking by teens; black and white; later
relativism
◉ Keagan Answer: construct reality thru life span; think KELLOG
cereal you eat all your life and in childhood you aren't sure what's
real or fantasy
,◉ idiographic approach Answer: intensive studies of individuals
◉ Nomothetic approach Answer: examines personality in large
groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about
personality structure; think NORMS
◉ John B. Watson Answer: father of American behaviorism
◉ Milton Erickson Answer: hypnosis & work with Haley
◉ Erik Erikson Answer: 8 Epigenetic, psychosocial stages; identity
crisis
◉ Lorenz Answer: critical period and imprinting (mother/goslings)
◉ Seligman Answer: learned helplessness (think, a MAN's LEG hurt)
◉ Kohlberg Answer: moral development; 3 levels each with 2 stages
Preconventional (reward/punish); Conventional (social);
Postconventional (self-accepted principles)
,◉ Heinz Dilemma Answer: Kohlberg: moral choices--scenarios: Man
needs drug to save wife's life. Drug is too expensive so man steals it.
(Think-- Heinz ketchup is drug)
◉ Identity crisis Answer: Erikson
◉ Harry Stack Sullivan Answer: Psychiatry of Interpersonal
Relations- a stage theory for childhood development. parents to
child Good Me; Bad Me (think a STACK of Uno cards of STAGES)
◉ John Bowlby Answer: bonding and attachment; object loss
(protest; despair; detachment); think a BOW curves around an
arrow
◉ Harry Harlow Answer: Studied attachment in monkeys with
artificial mothers
◉ Coopersmith Answer: conducted an experiment on parenting
styles and self-esteem to find that authoritative parents produce
children with the highest self-esteem and indulgent parents produce
children with the lowest self-esteem. CLEAR rules important; Think
Dr. COOPER helped us to see CLEARLY
, ◉ Eleanor Gibson Answer: The "visual cliff" experiment. Showed
that depth perception cues are innate. Think: ELEANOR started
down a slippery slope.
◉ John Locke Answer: Empiricism; people learn from experiences;
Think--John LOCKE learned which KEY worked
◉ Object permanence & stranger anxiety Answer: 8 months age
approx.
◉ Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal
operational Answer: birth to 2 years; 2 to 7 years; 7 to 12 years; 12
years plus
◉ Havinghurst Answer: Developmental tasks for each dev. stage;
Think: TASKS you HAVE to do.
◉ Loevinger Answer: stretched Piaget's model of development into
stages of adulthood. Believed Ego adapts to demands and is an
important basis for critical thinking. Highest level is integrated
(think LOVE Freud because of his ego)
◉ Positive Reinforcement Answer: Add something AFTER to
increase behavior
