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Question 1 1 / 1 pts Freud's ideas on psychophysical energy differed from those of Fechner in that Freud belied that the goal of behaviour was    the maintaining of energy equilibrium regardless of absolute level of energy;     the diminution of such energy rather than maintaining energy equilibrium;     the increasing of such energy rather than its diminution;     the discharge of such energy regardless of the situation in which the organism found itself

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Question 1

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Freud's ideas on psychophysical energy differed from those of Fechner in that Freud belied that the goal of behaviour was

  

the maintaining of energy equilibrium regardless of absolute level of energy;

   

the diminution of such energy rather than maintaining energy equilibrium;

   

the increasing of such energy rather than its diminution;

   

the discharge of such energy regardless of the situation in which the organism found itself.

 

 

Question 2

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Endogenous Q

  

is a sublimation of the flight or fight response;

   

is a response to the appearance of a possible sexual partner;

   

is generated from within the organism;

   

disappears in the course of maturation.

 

 

Question 3

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According to Freud, which of the following is a function of the group of permanently energised neurons that constitute the ego?
i) To store Q until a suitable object is found for its discharge;
ii) To enable the organism to move through the environment so as to avoid pain;
iii) To prevent Q from energising neurons and neural pathways that are associated with painful memories;
iv) To form conscious representations of the external world.

  

i only;

   

i and ii only;

   

i, ii, and iii only;

   

i, ii, iii, and iv.

 

 

Question 4

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What problems with the Project may have led Freud to abandon it?
i) It could not account for conscious experience;
ii) Its mechanistic framework could not account for the goal-directedness of the ego's operations;
iii) It did not accord with the physiology of the nervous system;
iv) It allotted too large a role for instinctual drives.

  

i only;

   

i and ii only;

   

i, ii, and iii only;

   

i, ii, iii, and iv.

 

 

Question 5

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The source of instinctual drives

  

lies within the organism itself;

   

lies in the environment;

   

lies within both the organism and the environment;

   

None of the above.

 

 

Question 6

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The id operates according to

  

the reality principle;

   

the uncertainty principle;

   

the pleasure principle;

   

the exclusion principle.

 

 

Question 7

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The ego develops in order to

  

to allow the organism to assert its needs over those of competing organisms;

   

make the desires of the id accessible to conscious awareness;

   

permit the expression of instinctual desires in as free a way as possible;

   

mediate between the insatiable desires of the id and what is actually possible.

 

 

Question 8

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Freud believed that our most important actions are

  

freely chosen;

   

determined;

   

unpredictable;

   

the result of rational deliberation.

 

 

Question 9

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The goal of psychoanalysis is

  

the ego taking control of the id;

   

the removal of the id and its irrational desires;

   

the creation of a powerful superego;

   

the achievement of happiness and contentment.

 

 

Question 10

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Spinoza's conception of the therapeutic effects of self knowledge shares something with psychoanalysis in that they both view self understanding as

  

being more in touch with our emotions;

  

lessening our bondage to the emotions;

  

a means to better understand others;

 

a necessary prelude to satisfying our true desires.