The school of thought known as __________ argued that people could be understood in terms of basic physical and chemical mechanisms. This is contrary to _________ belief that a non-physical spiritual force is responsible for life.

b)mechanism; vitalism’s

The primary evidence for Freud’s theory of personality came from ________.

c)free association

According to Freud, the mind is _____________.

an energy system

Voon et al.’s (2010) research on the fMRI brain images of people with and without conversion disorder indicated that:

People with conversion disorder are probably not faking their symptoms

Freud watched his patients have the psychological experience of catharsis and inferred what about the mind?

all of the above

_________ includes the mental contents of which we could become aware if we attended to them.

preconscious

In analyzing dreams, Freud found that unconscious life has all of the following qualities, except:

it is bliss-filled

Regarding the unconscious, your textbook authors note that Freud’s fundamental message to the world is that:

the contents of the unconscious influence conscious experience

Early research on subliminal perception indicates that:

stimuli that are not consciously perceived can influence conscious experience

Participants in one study took longer to recognize emotionally toned words compared to neutral words and showed signs of emotional response to the emotionally toned words before they could verbally identify them. This research illustrates the phenomenon known as:

b)perceptual defense

The distinction between the traumatic sexual and aggressive unconscious content of interest to Freud, and the relatively mundane unconscious content studied by contemporary researchers suggests that one should distinguish between the ____________and the _____________

psychoanalytic unconscious; cognitive unconscious

Which of the following structures of the mind did Freud deem the “great reservoir” of mental energies?

The id

Which of the following structures of the mind is most capable of reality testing?

The ego

Freud’s life and death instincts are manifested as __________ and _________drives, respectively.

aggressive; sexual sexual; aggressive

In the dynamics of functioning, instincts can be:

all of the above

Anxiety represents a painful emotion that alerts the ______to danger so that it can act.

ego

Defense mechanisms are a strategic effort by the _____to cope with the socially unacceptable impulses of the ____.

ego; id

Of the defense mechanisms discussed in the text, which one arguably benefits society the most?

sublimation

Davis and Schwartz (1987) found that people with a repressive coping style, relative to others:

both ‘a’ and ‘b’ are correct