PSY 352 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔According to Sigmund Freud, a slip of the tongue represents what?
A. Activity of the conscious mind
B. Activity of the motivated unconscious
C. A true accident that is usually socially unacceptable
D. A motivated loss of coordination - ✔✔B.
✔✔According to Sigmund Freud, a person who smokes or overeats is probably fixated
at the ___________ stage.
A. phallic
B. latency
C. oral
D. anal - ✔✔C.
✔✔Which of the following is a similarity between the id and the superego?
A. Both operate according to the pleasure principle.
B. Both are not bound by reality.
C. Both are not able to determine what is right and what is wrong.
D. Both set moral goals and ideals of perfection. - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which part of the human mind engages in secondary process thinking?
A. The ego
B. The conscience
C. The id
D. The superego - ✔✔A.
✔✔The ___________ occurs when a memory is elaborated upon through imagination,
leading a person to confuse an imagined event with events that actually happened.
A. primacy effect
B. imagination inflation effect
C. false-consensus effect
D. mere-exposure effect - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which of the following best describes the unconscious according to modern
perspectives?
A. Contains information that has been explicitly processed
B. Refers to conscious thoughts in focal attention
C. Contains unacceptable urges for pleasure and aggression
D. Refers to information processed outside of conscious awareness - ✔✔D.
✔✔Unlike Sigmund Freud, contemporary psychologists view the cognitive unconscious
as ___________.
, A. operating according to its own primitive and irrational rules
B. having a more bounded, rule-governed, and specific influence on behavior
C. having a significant and definitive influence on individuals' motivations
D. a torrid and fuming cauldron of anger and eroticism - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which of the following is a characteristic of Erik Erikson's "industry versus inferiority"
stage of personality development?
A. Children begin imitating adults, dressing in adult clothes, playing adults, and acting
as adults.
B. Children begin comparing themselves to each other, especially those their own age.
C. Children begin experiencing a whole series of drastic physical changes.
D. Children begin experimenting with their new abilities and generally test their powers.
- ✔✔B.
✔✔Four-year-old Timothy loves to dress like his father, wear his father's boots, and
pretend to do chores in the garage. This scenario most likely illustrates which of Erik
Erikson's stages of personality development?
A. trust versus mistrust
B. autonomy versus shame/doubt
C. identity versus role confusion
D. initiative versus guilt - ✔✔D.
✔✔A person deals with the question "Who am I?" in which of Erik Erikson's stages of
development?
A. autonomy versus shame/doubt
B. identity versus role confusion
C. initiative versus guilt
D. trust versus mistrust - ✔✔B.
✔✔While toddler Jacob is playing in his living room, his mother leaves the room for a
few minutes. He hardly notices that his mother has left. When she returns, he does not
give her much attention. According to Mary Ainsworth and her colleagues, Jacob most
likely belongs to the ___________ attached group.
A. avoidantly
B. ambivalently
C. independently
D. securely - ✔✔A.
✔✔In the context of the stages of personality development, which of the following is
correct?
A. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson felt that the conflicts that occurred at each
stage were of a social nature.
B. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson agreed about the time span of development.
C. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson maintained the notion of fixation.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔According to Sigmund Freud, a slip of the tongue represents what?
A. Activity of the conscious mind
B. Activity of the motivated unconscious
C. A true accident that is usually socially unacceptable
D. A motivated loss of coordination - ✔✔B.
✔✔According to Sigmund Freud, a person who smokes or overeats is probably fixated
at the ___________ stage.
A. phallic
B. latency
C. oral
D. anal - ✔✔C.
✔✔Which of the following is a similarity between the id and the superego?
A. Both operate according to the pleasure principle.
B. Both are not bound by reality.
C. Both are not able to determine what is right and what is wrong.
D. Both set moral goals and ideals of perfection. - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which part of the human mind engages in secondary process thinking?
A. The ego
B. The conscience
C. The id
D. The superego - ✔✔A.
✔✔The ___________ occurs when a memory is elaborated upon through imagination,
leading a person to confuse an imagined event with events that actually happened.
A. primacy effect
B. imagination inflation effect
C. false-consensus effect
D. mere-exposure effect - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which of the following best describes the unconscious according to modern
perspectives?
A. Contains information that has been explicitly processed
B. Refers to conscious thoughts in focal attention
C. Contains unacceptable urges for pleasure and aggression
D. Refers to information processed outside of conscious awareness - ✔✔D.
✔✔Unlike Sigmund Freud, contemporary psychologists view the cognitive unconscious
as ___________.
, A. operating according to its own primitive and irrational rules
B. having a more bounded, rule-governed, and specific influence on behavior
C. having a significant and definitive influence on individuals' motivations
D. a torrid and fuming cauldron of anger and eroticism - ✔✔B.
✔✔Which of the following is a characteristic of Erik Erikson's "industry versus inferiority"
stage of personality development?
A. Children begin imitating adults, dressing in adult clothes, playing adults, and acting
as adults.
B. Children begin comparing themselves to each other, especially those their own age.
C. Children begin experiencing a whole series of drastic physical changes.
D. Children begin experimenting with their new abilities and generally test their powers.
- ✔✔B.
✔✔Four-year-old Timothy loves to dress like his father, wear his father's boots, and
pretend to do chores in the garage. This scenario most likely illustrates which of Erik
Erikson's stages of personality development?
A. trust versus mistrust
B. autonomy versus shame/doubt
C. identity versus role confusion
D. initiative versus guilt - ✔✔D.
✔✔A person deals with the question "Who am I?" in which of Erik Erikson's stages of
development?
A. autonomy versus shame/doubt
B. identity versus role confusion
C. initiative versus guilt
D. trust versus mistrust - ✔✔B.
✔✔While toddler Jacob is playing in his living room, his mother leaves the room for a
few minutes. He hardly notices that his mother has left. When she returns, he does not
give her much attention. According to Mary Ainsworth and her colleagues, Jacob most
likely belongs to the ___________ attached group.
A. avoidantly
B. ambivalently
C. independently
D. securely - ✔✔A.
✔✔In the context of the stages of personality development, which of the following is
correct?
A. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson felt that the conflicts that occurred at each
stage were of a social nature.
B. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson agreed about the time span of development.
C. Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson maintained the notion of fixation.
