Allport believed that emotionally healthy adults were:
a. no longer victimized by what happened to them in their early years.
b. guided primarily by unconscious forces of the superego.
c. those in whom the personality is undifferentiated from childhood experiences.
d. those who avoid self-objectification.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Allport described six criteria for normal, mature, emotionally healthy adult personalities. By meeting these six criteria, adults can be described as emotionally healthy and functionally autonomous, independent of childhood motives. As a result, they cope with the present and plan for the future without being victimized by what happened to them in their early years.
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