PSY 550 FINAL EXAM 2026 CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ psychodynamic theory of personality (Freud).
Answer: focus: unconscious mind and early childhood
motivation of human behavior: inner conflicts
personality development: shaped by childhood experiences
◉ Id.
Answer: entirely unconscious psychic energy strives to satisfy basic
drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress (pleasure principle,
impulsive)
◉ Ego.
Answer: seeks to gratify the id's impulses in realistic ways that will
bring you long-term pleasure (reality principle)
◉ Superego.
Answer: our moral compass (conscience, morality) that forces the
ego to consider not only the real but also the ideal, mediates the
impulsive demands of the id
,◉ unconscious.
Answer: seen as a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and
memories that are outside out conscious awareness (hidden drives,
desires)
◉ conscious.
Answer: contains all of the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes
of which we are aware of at any given moment (current awareness)
◉ preconscious.
Answer: consists of anything that could potentially be brought into
the conscious mind (easily brought to mind)
◉ Oral (0-18months).
Answer: pleasure centers on the mouth (mouth)
◉ Anal (18-36months).
Answer: pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination, coping
with demands for control (toilet training)
◉ phallic (3-6 years).
, Answer: pleasure zone is the genitals, coping with incestuous sexual
feelings (genitals)
◉ latency (6years-puberty).
Answer: a phase of dormant sexual feelings (dormant)
◉ genital (puberty on).
Answer: maturation of sexual interests (sexual maturity)
◉ fixation.
Answer: the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, stuck
at a stage
◉ Oedipus(boys)/Electra(girls) Complex.
Answer: child desires opposite-sex parent and competes with same-
sex parent
◉ Penis envy and Castration Anxiety.
Answer: girls- penis envy when they realize they don't have a penis
(feel inferior)
boys- castration anxiety, fear the loss of their genitalia as
punishment for Oedipal desires
EVALUATION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A PLUS
◉ psychodynamic theory of personality (Freud).
Answer: focus: unconscious mind and early childhood
motivation of human behavior: inner conflicts
personality development: shaped by childhood experiences
◉ Id.
Answer: entirely unconscious psychic energy strives to satisfy basic
drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress (pleasure principle,
impulsive)
◉ Ego.
Answer: seeks to gratify the id's impulses in realistic ways that will
bring you long-term pleasure (reality principle)
◉ Superego.
Answer: our moral compass (conscience, morality) that forces the
ego to consider not only the real but also the ideal, mediates the
impulsive demands of the id
,◉ unconscious.
Answer: seen as a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and
memories that are outside out conscious awareness (hidden drives,
desires)
◉ conscious.
Answer: contains all of the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes
of which we are aware of at any given moment (current awareness)
◉ preconscious.
Answer: consists of anything that could potentially be brought into
the conscious mind (easily brought to mind)
◉ Oral (0-18months).
Answer: pleasure centers on the mouth (mouth)
◉ Anal (18-36months).
Answer: pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination, coping
with demands for control (toilet training)
◉ phallic (3-6 years).
, Answer: pleasure zone is the genitals, coping with incestuous sexual
feelings (genitals)
◉ latency (6years-puberty).
Answer: a phase of dormant sexual feelings (dormant)
◉ genital (puberty on).
Answer: maturation of sexual interests (sexual maturity)
◉ fixation.
Answer: the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, stuck
at a stage
◉ Oedipus(boys)/Electra(girls) Complex.
Answer: child desires opposite-sex parent and competes with same-
sex parent
◉ Penis envy and Castration Anxiety.
Answer: girls- penis envy when they realize they don't have a penis
(feel inferior)
boys- castration anxiety, fear the loss of their genitalia as
punishment for Oedipal desires
