1. What are the 3 phases of Freud's thought?
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b.
c.
T or F 2. Freud's interest in psychology grew from his interest in Charcot's work on hysterics.
T or F 3. Freud's interest in psychology grew from his interest in Charcot's work on schizophrenia.
T or F 4. Freud assumed that hysteria was caused by some intense emotional experience.
T or F 5. Treatment involved recalling the experience followed by a discharge of the corresponding emotion.
T or F 6. People suffer from an "idea", a memory or emotion of which they are not consciously aware but of which they can be relieved if it is brought to consciousness.
T or F 7. The relevant ideas in his patients typically had some sexual content.
8. What is infantile seduction?
T or F 9. Reports of child abuse by patients was largely based on phantasy.
T or F 10. Reports of child abuse by patients was based on memories
of what actually happened.
11. What are the death instincts?
12. What are the life instincts?
T or F 13. All phenomena related to human beings are determined by the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology.
T or F 14. Freud rejected the Darwinian hypothesis that human beings
are just one species of animal.
T or F 15. Freud accepted the Darwinian hypothesis that human beings
are just one species of animal.
T or F 16. The problems related to human beings can be solved by the methods of science.
17. What are the 5 main topics of Freud's approach to human nature?
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b.
c.
d.
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T or F 18. Freud acknowledged a difference between mental and physiological
states of the nervous system and this led him to endorse dualism.
T or F 19. Freud acknowledged a difference between mental and physiological
states of the nervous system but he did not endorse dualism.
20. What is Dualism?
T or F 21. All complicated mental states and processes have a physiological
basis.
T or F 22. All complicated mental states and processes have a physiological
basis.
23. What is Determinism?
T or F 24. All mental events have a preceding cause.
T or F 25. Slips of the tongue, faulty actions and dreams all have hidden causes in a person's mind.
T or F 26. Nothing that a person does is haphazard or accidental.
T or F 27. Some of the things that a person does are haphazard or accidental.
T or F 28. Both Freud and Marx believed that the contents of our consciousness are far from being free.
T or F 29. For Freud the contents of our consciousness are the product of unconscious forces.
T or F 30. For Freud the contents of our consciousness are the product of economic forces.
T or F 31. There are unconscious mental states.
T or F 32. There are no unconscious mental states.
33. What is a preconscious mental state?
34. What is an unconscious mental state?
T or F 35. Unconscious desires or memories can cause people to do things that they cannot explain rationally to themselves or to others.
T or F 36. Unconscious desires or memories almost never cause people to do things that they cannot explain rationally to themselves or to others.
T or F 37. Some unconscious states may have previously been conscious.
T or F 38. Unconscious states have never previously been conscious.
T or F 39. Some unconscious states may have previously been conscious
but have been repressed because they are too painful to acknowledge.
T or F 40. Unconscious states have never previously been conscious
and will always remain repressed.
T or F 41. The ultimate driving forces of our mental life are innate
and operate unconsciously from infancy.