Sigmund Freud is regarded as the father of __________ in psychology.

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. In the year 1913, C. G. Jung, established his school after separated from Sigmund Freud, which is known as __________?

   A. Psychoanalysis School
   B. Individual Psychology
   C. Psychoanalytical School
   D. Child Psychology

3. In which year Sigmund Freud published the book ‘The Ego’ and ‘The Id’?

   A. 1927
   B. 1972
   C. 1980
   D. 1908

4. 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

5. According to Sigmund Freud, an individual’s personality is largely determined by:

   A. the id and the superego
   B. self-actualizing tendencies
   C. forces in the unconscious
   D. forces in the environment

6. J.B. Watson, the founder and father of behaviouristic school of psychology, defined ‘Psychology’ as the science of_____________?

   A. Soul
   B. Consciousness
   C. Mind
   D. Behaviour

7. Community psychology, health psychology, and neuropsychology are considered which of the following in clinical psychology?

   A. Precursors
   B. Continuums
   C. Inferences
   D. Subspecialties

8. Freud named the complex after a mythical Greek figure who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.

   A. Narcissus
   B. Ulysses
   C. Electra
   D. Oedipus

9. A boy’s sexual desires for his mother and feelings of hostility toward his father constitute what Freud called:

   A. displacement
   B. reaction formation
   C. reciprocal determinism
   D. the Oedipus complex

10. Educational psychology can be regarded as an applied _____in that it seeks to explain learning according to scientifically determined principles and facts concerning human behavior:

    A. Art
    B. Phenomenon
    C. Out come
    D. Science