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Chapter 12 Homework Assignment # 4

Chapter 12 focuses on psychodynamic psychotherapy, its foundational concepts, and key terms such as free association, resistance, and transference. It discusses the roles of the id, ego, and superego, as well as various defense mechanisms like displacement and projection. The chapter also outlines Freud's psychosexual stages and their implications for personality development.

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Chapter 12 Homework Assignment # 4

Chapter 12 focuses on psychodynamic psychotherapy, its foundational concepts, and key terms such as free association, resistance, and transference. It discusses the roles of the id, ego, and superego, as well as various defense mechanisms like displacement and projection. The chapter also outlines Freud's psychosexual stages and their implications for personality development.

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Chapter 12

Due – Sunday, November 17th by 11:59 pm

1. Psychodynamic psychotherapy refers broadly to the approach authored by _____ and all
subsequent adaptations or expansions of it.
A) Carl Rogers
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Hans Strupp
D) B. F. Skinner

2. The primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy is


A) to make the unconscious conscious.
B) to replace illogical or irrational thoughts with more logical, rational thoughts.
C) to use reinforcement or punishment to change target behaviors.
D) to enhance self-actualization.

3. The term _____ succinctly captures the primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
A) self-actualization
B) insight
C) shaping
D) congruence

4. Free association
A) is used by psychodynamic psychotherapists as an effort to access the unconscious.
B) involves asking clients to say whatever comes to mind without censoring themselves at all.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

5. Dr. James “forgets” to unlock the front door to his office on a Saturday when his only patient
is Millie, a loud, disagreeable woman who often yells during therapy sessions. According to the
psychodynamic school of thought, this is an example of _____.
A) a Freudian slip
B) free association
C) dream work
D) manifest content

6. When a patient is asked to engage in _____, the patient’s task is to verbalize any thought
that comes to mind, no matter how nonsensical, inappropriate, illogical, or unimportant it may
seem.
A) word association
B) fixation
C) projection
D) free association
8. When a patient is asked to engage in _____, the therapist presents the patient with a word,
and the patient is to respond with the first word that comes to mind.
A) word association
B) fixation
C) projection
D) free association
Ans: A

11. Ron is a psychotherapy client who senses that certain unconscious material will soon be
exposed. This makes him anxious, so he abruptly changes the subject and then misses his next
appointment. Ron's psychodynamic psychotherapist is likely to understand Ron's actions as
_____.
A) insight
B) resistance
C) displacement
D) transference

13. According to psychodynamic theory, the _____ is the part of the mind that generates all
pleasure-seeking, selfish, indulgent, animalistic impulses.
A) ego
B) superego
C) id
D) none of the above
Ans: C

14. According to psychodynamic theory, the _____ is the part of the mind that generates
defense mechanisms.
A) ego
B) superego
C) id
D) none of the above
Ans: A

16. Which of the following best defines a defense mechanism?


A) an attempt to manage conflict between the id and superego
B) the client's unconscious tendency to interact with the therapist as if the therapist were very
similar to an important person in the client's personal history (mother or father, for example)
C) a verbal or behavioral "mistake" that, according to psychodynamic psychotherapists,
communicates an underlying unconscious wish
D) an attempt to say whatever comes to mind, without censorship, no matter how nonsensical,
illogical, or inappropriate
17. Displacement is a defense mechanism characterized by
A) doing the opposite of the unconscious wish.
B) redirecting the unconscious wish toward a safer target.
C) attributing the unconscious wish to others rather than to the self.
D) denying the entire conflict surrounding the unconscious wish such that the individual never
becomes aware of it.

18. Reaction formation is a defense mechanism characterized by


A) doing the opposite of the unconscious wish.
B) redirecting the unconscious wish toward a safer target.
C) attributing the unconscious wish to others rather than to the self.
D) denying the entire conflict surrounding the unconscious wish such that the individual never
becomes aware of it.

19. _____ is the defense mechanism in which the ego projects an id impulse onto other people
around us.
A) Displacement
B) Repression
C) Projection
D) Reaction formation

20. Of all defense mechanisms, _____ is typically considered to be the most mature or healthy
by psychodynamic psychotherapists.
A) displacement
B) repression
C) sublimation
D) reaction formation

21. Juan has formed a psychotherapy relationship with his clinical psychologist in which Juan
unconsciously and unrealistically expects the psychologist to behave like Juan's mother. Juan's
situation best illustrates _____.
A) reflection
B) resistance
C) transference
D) allegiance effects

24. _____, according to psychodynamic psychotherapists, is the therapist's unconscious


tendency to interact with clients as if the client is very similar to an individual from the
therapist's own personal history.
A) Transference
B) Countertransference
C) Interpretation
D) Fixation
25. According to psychodynamic psychotherapists, fixation at the oral stage can result in
problems related to _____ later in life, fixation at the anal stage can result in problems related
to _____ later in life, and fixation at the phallic stage can result in problems related to _____
later in life.
A) dependency; self-worth; control
B) control; dependency; self-worth
C) dependency; control; self-worth
D) self-worth; control; dependency
Ans: C

26. Which of the following lists Freud’s psychosexual stages in the correct order?
A) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
B) genital, oral, phallic, anal, latency
C) anal, oral, phallic, genital, latency
D) latency, oral, anal, genital, phallic

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