Allport believed his famous meeting with Freud illustrated:
a. how childhood feelings of inferiority persist into adulthood.
b. the error of placing too much importance on the unconscious.
c. the power of Freud's psychoanalytic method.
d. how a guilty conscience inevitably will reveal itself.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Allport suspected that psychoanalysis probed the unconscious too deeply, as Freud tried to do with him. Psychology, Allport decided, should pay more attention to conscious or visible motivations. This was the path he chose for his study of personality.
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