As a physician in Vienna, Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis to treat people who suffered from physical symptoms, such as paralysis or numbness, for which no physical cause was found. Today, problems, such as these, are called somatoform disorders, but Freud referred to these disorders as __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


hysteria

Psychology

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In clinical diagnosis, the goal is to:

a. match the individual's symptoms to a particular mental disorder b. determine the cause(s) of a mental disorder c. evaluate the effectiveness of a particular therapy d. collect information about the person

Psychology

Both encoding and retrieval together influence memory performance in ______.

A. depth-of-processing effects B. environmental-dependent effects C. mood-dependent effects D. transfer-appropriate processing

Psychology

In contrast to emerging adulthood, adolescent romantic relationships tend to include a ____________ context

a. maternal b. peer c. teacher d. spousal

Psychology

According to Freud, a girl's sexual attachment to her father and jealousy of her mother is called ________

a. the Electra complex b. the Oedipus complex c. transference d. countertransference

Psychology