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FREUD:
1. The term "conscience" is used in Freud's theory to refer to
1. The social dimension of the individual - for example, someone has a strong or a weak personality
2. The punishing element of the superego
3. The person's emotions and feelings and the way in which he or she shows and handles them in his or her
interaction with the environment
4. The relatively stable organisation of all physical, psychological and spiritual characteristics that determine the
individual's behaviour in interaction with the environment

2. Is anxiety about actual dangers in the external environment?
1. Reality anxiety
2. Internationalism
3. Neurotic anxiety
4. Situationalism

3. In Freudian terminology, cathexis refers to
1. The psychic energy that is transferred onto appropriate objects of drive satisfaction in a way that makes these
objects attractive or desirable
2. A sexual climax
3. The release the ego experiences when it is freed from the conflicting interplay of the id, the physical reality and
the superego
4. The cathartic relief of tension after a long build-up of tension due to delayed drive satisfaction

4. Thabo is faced with the conflict of sexually desiring his best friend's wife. According to Freud, the most effective
strategy Thabo could employ to deal with this conflict is to
1. Resist the temptation and repress his drive out of loyalty to his friend
2. Fully satisfy his desire by secretly having sex with his best friend's wife
3. Deny that he has any such desire by becoming convinced that his best friend's wife is actually quite unattractive
4. Sublimate his desire for his best friend's wife by having sex with his own wife

5. After the divorce of his parents and the trauma of being left with his mother while his father took off with his
mistress, five year old Johnny, who was toilet trained when he was two, began wetting his bed The Freudian
analyst, whom Johnny's mother consults for help, will most likely explain Johnny's behaviour as
1. Regression and fixation as a result of feeling overwhelmed by anxiety
2. The repression of sexual feelings towards his mother now that the rival figure of the father is out of the way
3. The sublimation of aggressive feelings towards the father who left them
4. The projection of castration anxiety in the act of wetting his bed

6. A pastor has a child who abuses drugs He preaches hellfire and damnation on everyone who smokes cigarettes
and drinks alcohol. He then prescribes abstinence from smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol to his
congregation. According to Freudian theory, the defence mechanism which best explains the pastor's behaviour is
1. Regression
2. Identification
3. Rationalisation
4. Reaction formation

7. Freud regards dreams as the royal road to the unconscious because
a. There is no other way that repressed material can be brought to light
b. Dreams contain disguised wishes and desires which allow the analyst, by the method of free association, to
uncover the underlying problems
c. During sleep the preconscious censoring of the ego is less effective than during the waking state, allowing
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