Assignment: Freud’s Anxiety & Ego-defense Mechanisms

Assignment: Freud’s Anxiety & Ego-defense Mechanisms

Assignment: Freud’s Anxiety & Ego-defense Mechanisms

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1. As you are reading this question right now, you are consciously processing the meaning of the words in which stage of memory?

a. sensory memory

b. short-term memory

c. long-term memory

d. episodic memory

2. At age 80, Bonita recalls the wonderful summers she spent with her grandparents during her childhood. She talks about the market in town where you could buy freshly churned ice cream and garden vegetables, the county fair, and bonfires where her grandmother would make s’mores for the family. Bonita’s recollections are an example of _____

a. sensory memory

b. short-term memory

c. long term memory

d. recognition memory

3. Which of the following is NOT a possible cause of forgetting described in your textbook?

a. consolidation

b. decay

c. encoding failure

d. interference

4. According to Freud, _____ memories remain unconscious yet are still capable of influencing behavior and personality.

a. repressed

b. suppressed

c. prospective

d. retrospective

5. To help understand how neurons change in response to the formation of a new memory, researchers have extensively studied:

a. the sea snail Aplysia.

b. undergraduate psychology students.

c. dolphins

d. a man known by the initials H.M.

6. Keisha is determined to ace her microbiology final. Which of the following strategies would be LEAST likely to improve her memory for the material covered in her microbiology textbook?

a. outlining the chapter information in a way that shows how information is related

b. going without sleep the night before the exam and studying right up until she takes the test

c. using the photographs and diagrams in the text to help create visual memories of the material

d. spending extra time on material in the middle of the chapter

7. While Mary was reading a story about the Australian Outback adventures of Billy and his dog, she had no problem visualizing the arid countryside, the unusual animals that lived there, and the various people that Billy and his dog met in their journeys. Mary is using:

a. mental imagery.

b. a mental set

c.an algorithm

d. a heuristic

8. When Jean-Claude came back from skiing he wanted to brew a cup of coffee. Because he was out of coffee filters, he settled for tea. Jean-Claude’s failure to realize he could use a paper towel as a coffee filter best illustrates:

a. a mental set.

b. flexible cognition.

c. functional fixedness.

d. the availability heuristic.

9. Research suggests that the _____ is most likely to be used when people rely on information involving vivid memories to determine the likelihood of events occurring.

a. elimination-by-aspects model

b. representative heuristic

c. additive model

d. availability heuristic

10. Dr. Mathias believes that behavior is motivated by the desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs that “push” us to behave in certain ways. Dr. Mathias’s views are most consistent with _____ theories of motivation.

a. instinct

b. drive

c. incentive

d. humanistic

11. The desire to avoid boredom is to _____ theory as the desire to drink when thirsty is to _____ theory.

a. arousal; drive

b. drive; arousal

c. humanistic; incentive

d. incentive; humanistic

12. Nate wonders how his friend Jim can wake up at 5:00 every morning to swim laps before school. When he asks about it, Jim replies that he simply wants to realize his highest personal potential in swimming. Jim’s explanation is most consistent with _____ theories of motivation.

a. instinct

Assignment: Freud’s Anxiety & Ego-defense Mechanisms