List Freud's psychosexual stages, and explain how adult personality is determined as a result of these stages.
What will be an ideal response?
Freud believed that we go through five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. According to Freud, our adult personality is determined by the way we resolve conflicts between sources of pleasure at each stage and the demands of reality.
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A. brain B. midbrain C. cerebral hemispheres D. cerebellum
Repeated use of large doses of amphetamine or cocaine can lead to a behavioral condition similar to ____.
A. schizophrenia B. bipolar disorder C. attention deficit disorder D. depression
According to psychoanalytic perspectives, children and adults are caught in conflict. Early in development, this conflict is between the child and:
a. parental expectations, social rules, and moral codes. b. their sexual and aggressive tendencies. c. their id. d. the child's external limits which have been internalized.
Koffka’s book, The Principles of Gestalt Psychology, ____
a. provided an easy-to-understand exposition of Gestalt psychology b. extended the province of Gestalt psychology beyond perception and to other psychological matters c. refuted the basic principles of Gestalt psychology d. tied the organizational principles of Gestalt psychology to specific regions and structures of the brain