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PCN-107 MIDTERM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) EXAM |
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
3 parts of Freud's topographic model - (answer)Conscious: thoughts you are
currently aware of
Preconscious: stored information that you can retrieve if desired
Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, and desires you cannot access under most
circumstances, although they may be accessed through specific techniques
3 parts of Freud's structural model - (answer)The Id: the raw, unorganized, inborn
part of the personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by
primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses.
Apparent in infancy. Based on the pleasure principle.
The Ego: the part of the personality that provides a buffer between the Id and the
outside world. Apparent at 2 years old. Based on the reality principle.
The Superego: demands and values of society. The final personality structure to
develop. Represents values of parents, educators, and society at large. Apparent
at 5 years old. Absorbs the values of family and society. Primary tool is guilt.
Defense Mechanisms - (answer)unconscious strategies that people use to reduce
anxiety by concealing its source from themselves and others
Types of defense mechanisms - (answer)1. Repression: pushing the undesirable
unconscious material out of the conscious thought
2. Sublimation: channeling threatening impulses into socially acceptable actions -
can be socially rewarding
3. Displacement: channeling impulses onto non-threatening objects
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4. Denial: refusing to accept that certain facts exist
5. Reaction Formation: eliminating the unconscious conflicts by acting in
opposition to the unconscious desire
6. Intellectualization: handling threatening material by removing all of the
emotional content before it reaches the unconscious level
7. Projection: attributing unconscious impulses to other people rather than
recognize them in the self
4 stages of psychosexual development - (answer)oral, anal, phallic, and latency
stages
Oral stage - (answer)deals with the inability to trust oneself and others, resulting
in the fear of loving and forming close relationships and low self-esteem; oral
fixations result from deprivation of oral gratification in infancy
Anal stage - (answer)deals with the inability to recognize and express anger,
leading to the denial of one's own power as a person and the lack of a sense of
autonomy; parental discipline patterns and attitudes have significant
consequences for child's later personality development
Phallic stage - (answer)deals with the inability to fully accept one's sexuality and
sexual feelings, and also to difficulty in accepting oneself as a man or woman;
Oedipus complex; how parents respond, verbally and non-verbally, to child's
emerging sexuality has an impact on sexual attitudes and feelings that child
develops
PCN-107 MIDTERM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) EXAM |
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
3 parts of Freud's topographic model - (answer)Conscious: thoughts you are
currently aware of
Preconscious: stored information that you can retrieve if desired
Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, and desires you cannot access under most
circumstances, although they may be accessed through specific techniques
3 parts of Freud's structural model - (answer)The Id: the raw, unorganized, inborn
part of the personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by
primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses.
Apparent in infancy. Based on the pleasure principle.
The Ego: the part of the personality that provides a buffer between the Id and the
outside world. Apparent at 2 years old. Based on the reality principle.
The Superego: demands and values of society. The final personality structure to
develop. Represents values of parents, educators, and society at large. Apparent
at 5 years old. Absorbs the values of family and society. Primary tool is guilt.
Defense Mechanisms - (answer)unconscious strategies that people use to reduce
anxiety by concealing its source from themselves and others
Types of defense mechanisms - (answer)1. Repression: pushing the undesirable
unconscious material out of the conscious thought
2. Sublimation: channeling threatening impulses into socially acceptable actions -
can be socially rewarding
3. Displacement: channeling impulses onto non-threatening objects
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4. Denial: refusing to accept that certain facts exist
5. Reaction Formation: eliminating the unconscious conflicts by acting in
opposition to the unconscious desire
6. Intellectualization: handling threatening material by removing all of the
emotional content before it reaches the unconscious level
7. Projection: attributing unconscious impulses to other people rather than
recognize them in the self
4 stages of psychosexual development - (answer)oral, anal, phallic, and latency
stages
Oral stage - (answer)deals with the inability to trust oneself and others, resulting
in the fear of loving and forming close relationships and low self-esteem; oral
fixations result from deprivation of oral gratification in infancy
Anal stage - (answer)deals with the inability to recognize and express anger,
leading to the denial of one's own power as a person and the lack of a sense of
autonomy; parental discipline patterns and attitudes have significant
consequences for child's later personality development
Phallic stage - (answer)deals with the inability to fully accept one's sexuality and
sexual feelings, and also to difficulty in accepting oneself as a man or woman;
Oedipus complex; how parents respond, verbally and non-verbally, to child's
emerging sexuality has an impact on sexual attitudes and feelings that child
develops
