Psych 111
Seifert
Psychology 111 Quiz #5
Personality and Clinical Disorders
1. Id is to ego as _______________ is to _______________.
a. Reality principle; pleasure principle
c. Conscious forces; unconscious forces
b. Pleasure principle; reality principle*
d. Conscience; “personality executive”
2. Which of Freud’s ideas would not be accepted by most contemporary psychologists?
a. Development is essentially fixed in childhood*
c. The mind is an iceberg with consciousness at tip
b. Sexuality is a potent drive in humans
d. Repression can be the cause of forgetting
3. According to Freud, defense mechanisms are methods of reducing:
a.
Anger
b.
Fear
c.
Anxiety*
d.
Lust
4. You’re really frustrated that you can’t get into law school, but you target your anger towards immigrant
workers who take jobs. Which of the following defense mechanisms, according to Freud, describes this:
a. Denial
b. Displacement*
c.
Projection
d.
Regression
5. Which of the following is the correct order of psychosexual stages proposed by Freud?
a. Oral; anal; phallic; latency; genital*
c. Oral; anal; genital; latency; phallic
b. Anal; oral; phallic; latency; genital
d. Anal; oral; genital; latency; phallic
6. The two major types of mood disorders according to the DSM-IV are technically known as
a) mania and sadness
c) major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder*
b) depression and elation
d) seasonal affective disorder and suicidal ideation
7. Over winter break your friend begins to act differently. She seems not to be enjoying anything, isn’t
sleeping much, has stopped bathing (unfortunately), and has little appetite. Which category of disorder
does her behavior fall under?
a. Somatoform disorders
c. Anxiety disorders
b. Personality disorders
d. Mood disorders*
8. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Major depression is very similar to having the ‘blues”
b. Depression has a biological basis
c. Depression may be the result of cognitive distortions and other problems in thinking
d. Both b and c*
9. You wash your hands at least two dozen times each day. When in public you wear rubber gloves so
you don’t come in contact with germs, and you become intensely uncomfortable when you have to shake
someone’s hand. These behaviors are representative of which of the following disorders?
a. Agoraphobia
c. Anal-retentive disorder
b. Obsessive-compulsive disorder*
d. Neurotic disorder
10. A study in which socially phobic and nonphobic adults were asked to report their anxiety levels.
Then, the experimenter had the subjects prepare and give a speech to a live audience of professionals.
What did the results show about the self-reported anxiety levels of the two groups?
a. there were no differences in the reported anxiety levels of the two groups.
b. the phobic subjects were only more anxious when actually giving the speech.
c. the nonphobic subjects were actually more anxious than the phobic subjects when giving the speech.
d. phobics were generally more anxious, with their anxiety levels peaking just before giving the speech.*