MONDRIAAN AURA COLLEGE

Behavioral Science Department

Theories of Personality

MULTIPLE CHOICE. DO NOT WRITE YOUR ANSWERS HERE. Write the letter of the best answer on the answer sheet provided.
1. Camae is a free-spirit. She is autonomous serene, and independent in her life. We can say that he has achieved the normal analog for the neurotic trend of __.
a. Moving away
b. Moving against
c. Moving therein
d. Moving towards
2. Scarlet is a thirty-year-old woman who obsesses herself in finding “Mr. Right”, saying that love will be the solution for all of her problems. Being familiar with
Horney’s theory, we can say that Scarlet has:
a. Failed to actualize her idealized self-image
b. Too much neurotic claims
c. Intensified needs for affection
d. Has a neurotic need for a powerful partner
3. Although Horney concedes to the existence of the penis envy, she contends that as much as young girls envy boys’ penises, boys also envy girls’ capability to
bear children. Her term for this is __.
a. Womb envy
b. Feminine psychology
c. Feminism
d. Gender equality
4. In contrast to Freud, Klein’s ORT focused on the
a. First 3 to 5 years of life
b. First 4 to 6 months after birth
c. First 2 to 3 years of life
d. First 10 to 12 months after birth
5. Which of the following differences between Freud and Klein’s theory is true?
a. ORT placed less emphasis on biologically based drives and more importance on consistent patterns of interpersonal relationships
b. ORT tends to be more maternal, stressing the intimacy and nurturing of the mother as compared to the paternalistic nature of Freud’s theory
c. Object relation theorists generally see human contact and relatedness—not sexual pleasure—as the prime motive of human behavior.
d. All of the above
6. Klein assumed that the infant, even at birth, possessed psychic representations of unconscious id instincts called the:
a. Phantasies
b. Imagery
c. Fantasies
d. Life Objects
7. Which of the following is true about Klein’s positions?
a. Klein chose the term “position” rather than “stage of development” to indicate that positions do not alter back and forth.
b. Klein intended these positions to represent normal social growth and development.
c. Klein had three basic positions including paranoid-schizoid, depressive, and anxious-avoidant.
d. Klein describes positions as ways of protecting he mother’s breast from both internal and external objects.
8. The infant desires to keep the ideal breast inside itself as a protection against annihilation by persecutors. To control the good breast and to fight off its
persecutors, the infant adopts __ , a way of organizing experiences that includes both paranoid feelings of being persecuted and a splitting of internal and
external objects into the good and the bad.
a. Introjection
b. Depressive position
c. Paranoid-schizoid position
d. Persecutory-anxious attachment
9. Jack, a child, was asked to go to the Principal’s office because of an event earlier at school which involved him. When asked about what happened, Jack was
able to evaluate his behavior both positively and negatively. Klein would explain this as an act of:
a. Introjection
b. Reaction formation
c. Projective identification
d. Splitting
10. Marissa was waiting in line to buy a ticket of her favourite movie. After a while, she got really irritated because the line was very long and moved really slowly.
Marissa then acted out and called for a guard because she felt that she had the right to be first in line and was entitled for special treatment. She is having:
a. Neurotic search for glory
b. Neurotic need for perfection
c. Neurotic pride
d. Neurotic claims
11. Karen Horney believed that:
a. Children who do not have their needs for social interaction and play satisfied develop basic hostility
b. Children suffer from basic anxiety due to basic hostility
c. Normal individuals do not adopt trends of relating to others.
d. Basic intrapsychic conflict may take form of destructive self-image or extreme hatred for others.
12. Kevin always wants to feel the most important among his classmates. He tirelessly tries to place attention to himself and always wants everyone to recognize
him when it comes to sports, academics, or school organizations. Kevin has the:
a. Neurotic need for power
b. Neurotic need for prestige
c. Neurotic need for achievement
d. Neurotic need for perfection and unassailability.
13. Aside from Horney’s focus on cultural and interpersonal conflict, she also talked about intrapsychic conflicts that originated from interpersonal experiences.
These conflicts are called:
 a. Idealized self-image and self-hatred
b. Eros and thanatos
c. Self-torture and self-frustration
d. Neurotic claims and neurotic pride
14. Laika has always been described as people-pleaser. She would follow what her friends say and wouldn’t decide on things by her own. She does this because she
is afraid that her friends might be angry if she doesn’t follow them. Laika has the:
a. Neurotic need for affection and approval
b. Neurotic need to restrict one’s life into narrow borders
c. Neurotic need for admiration
d. Neurotic need for social recognition and prestige
15. Teddy imposes on himself a set of rules and to do’s. he constantly follows these rules in every aspect of his life like work, relationships, etc. If he sways away
from these rules or commits a mistake, he punishes himself for it. This complex set of rules that he must follow are referred to as __.
a. Tyranny of the should
b. Vindictive triumph
c. Neurotic search for glory
d. Neurotic ambition