A. Childhood sexuality
B. Social and cultural factors
C. Differences between the sexes
D. Unconscious forces
E. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?
A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities - Some modern psychodynamic theorists or neo-Freudians focused on:
A. the whole
B. social motives and relationships that influence our behavior
C. human experience, problems potentials, and ideals
D. observable behaviors - Some modern psychodynamic theorists, or neo-Freudians, focused on:
A. the whole
B. social motives and relationships that influence our behavior
C. human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals
D. observable behaviors - Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:
A. her id
B. her alter ego
C. her ego
D. reaction formation - Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.
A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - Karen Horney, a prominent Neo-Freudian, disputes Freud’s assumption that women:
A. never experience a phallic stage of development
B. suffer an Electra complex
C. often experience learned helplessness
D. have weak superegos - By the early years of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud had begun to write about psychoanalysis, which he described as ‘a theory of the mind or personality, a method of investigation of unconscious process and a method of treatment’. Identify the true statement from those given below, in relation to his concept to his psychoanalytic theories:
A. The concept of unconscious mental processes is the idea that unconscious motivations and needs have a role in determining or behaviour
B. The concept of unconscious mental processes emphasizes the rational aspects of human behaviour
C. A psychogenetic model of development shows how the mind is organized
D. A topographic model of the psyche shows how personality develops - Many of Freud’s contemporaries disagreed with his ideas, who placed more emphasis on the innate desire for self-fulfillment and a striving for superiority?
A. Karen Horney
B. Carl Jung
C. Harry Stack Sullivan
D. Alfred Adler - Freud put the emphasis on______aspects of behavior.
A. Biological
B. Cognitive
C. Psychological
D. Behavioral - The strongest support for the theory that personality is heavily influenced by genetics is provided by strong personality similarity between:
A. identical twins reared together
B. identical twins reared apart
C. fraternal twins reared together
D. non-twins reared together
