PSY/250 Unit 3 Quiz — Neo-Analytic and Psychosocial Theories

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Jung's concept of the collective unconscious refers to:

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A. Inherited, universal psychic material shared across all humanity, expressed through archetypes

B. An individual's own repressed memories organized into complexes

C. The social mask a person presents to others

D. Material that is preconscious and can be retrieved at will

A 45-year-old reorganizes her life around mentoring younger colleagues and raising her children well. In Erikson's framework she is negotiating:

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A. Generativity vs. Stagnation, whose virtue is care

B. Intimacy vs. Isolation, whose virtue is love

C. Identity vs. Role Confusion, whose virtue is fidelity

D. Integrity vs. Despair, whose virtue is wisdom

Adler's principle of fictional finalism holds that behavior is best understood as:

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A. Pulled toward imagined future goals rather than only pushed by past causes

B. Determined entirely by fixations occurring before age six

C. A product of inherited archetypes in the collective unconscious

D. The result of reinforcement contingencies in the environment

Horney argued that what Freud identified as penis envy was better understood as:

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A. Envy of the social power and privilege afforded to men, not of anatomy

B. A universal archetype residing in the collective unconscious

C. An inevitable consequence of fixation at the phallic stage

D. Evidence that women develop weaker superegos than men

In Horney's theory, psychological health is characterized by:

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A. Flexible use of all three neurotic trends as circumstances warrant

B. Consistent reliance on moving toward people in all situations

C. Complete elimination of basic anxiety in early childhood

D. Permanent resolution of the tyranny of the shoulds by adolescence

Which of the following did the neo-analytic theorists generally reject in Freud's system? (Select all that apply.)

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A. The primacy of sexuality as the engine of personality

B. The claim that personality is essentially fixed by about age six

C. The relative neglect of culture and social relationships

D. The existence of unconscious mental processes

Erikson's stage 5 (Identity vs. Role Confusion) introduced the idea of a psychosocial moratorium. Explain what this means and why Erikson considered it developmentally valuable rather than a failure to launch.

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