The most distinctive aspect of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis is the belief that the conscious mind is influenced by ___________?

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1. 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

2. The psychoanalytic perspective is distinctive because it emphasizes that behavior is influenced by ___________?

   A. genetics, nutrition and blood chemistry
   B. environmental forces
   C. unconscious desires and unresolved conflicts
   D. a conscious understanding of life circumstances

3. Who is recognised as the father of psychoanalysis?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Tolman
   C. Alfred Adler
   D. William James

4. Psychoanalysis would suggest that resistance during therapy supports and maintains the process of:

   A. dream interpretation
   B. free association
   C. meta – analysis
   D. repression

5. After several months of psychoanalysis, Andy begins to feel intensity angry with his therapist, although the therapist has been consistently warm and supportive Andy’s feelings are probably

   A. a result of sudden insight about some childhood experience
   B. a sign of an impending psychosis
   C. a result of free association
   D. a result of transference

6. 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

7. Feature integration theory attempts to explain which aspect of object perception?

   A. How we perceive individual features of objects when brain is impaired
   B. How we perceive multiple colours to perceive a whole colour
   C. How we integrate touch and vision
   D. How we integrate individual features of objects to perceive a whole object

8. 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

9. Remembering how to solve a jigsaw puzzle without any conscious recollection that one can do so best illustrates ________________ memory?

   A. explicit
   B. flashbulb
   C. sensory
   D. implicit

10. In experiments, an image is quickly flashed and then replaced by a “masking” stimulus that inhibits conscious perception of the original image. In these experiments, the researchers are studying the effect of:

    A. Tinnitus
    B. Accommodation
    C. Blindsight
    D. Priming