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This set of Counselling Psychology 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Counselling Psychology 1 Set 4

Q1 | In Freudian theory, Anxiety
  • reduces repression
  • triggers repression
  • increases repression
  • is unrelated to repression
Q2 | With this defense mechanism, a repressed desire finds an opposite and exaggerated expression
  • fixation
  • reaction formation
  • sublimation
  • undoing
Q3 | A completely weaned child goes back to the bottle after a younger sister is born. This return to amore infantile pattern of behaviour expresses a
  • reaction formation
  • fixation
  • regression
  • projection
Q4 | Mohan has great admiration for his teacher. He attempts to imitate this teacher’s lifestyle andmannerisms. This is an example of
  • displacement
  • sublimation
  • projection
  • introjection
Q5 | A type of repression in which the ego attempts to do away with unpleasant experiences and theirconsequences is called
  • undoing
  • suppression
  • reaction formation
  • forgetting
Q6 | This defence mechanism, unlike others, usually results in some benefit to society.
  • undoing
  • fixation
  • sublimation
  • regression
Q7 | To Freud, the most crucial stage of development is
  • infancy
  • latency
  • genital
  • maturity
Q8 | The anal triad consists of all these characteristics EXCEPT
  • miserliness
  • aggressiveness
  • stubbornness
  • compulsive neatness
Q9 | For boys, the Castration complex
  • takes the form of penis envy
  • shatters the oedipus complex
  • comes before the oedipus complex
  • both a and c
Q10 | Freud believed that, for girls
  • the oedipus complex precedes the castration complex
  • the castration complex takes the form of castration anxiety
  • the oedipus complex is solved when they identify with their father, at around age 5 or 6
  • none of the above
Q11 | With few exceptions, the unconscious meaning of dreams expressed
  • early childhood traumas
  • wish-fulfillments
  • experiences of the day before
  • feelings of inferiority
Q12 | Psychoanalytic therapy is most likely to include this technique
  • homework assignments
  • free association
  • interpretation of early collections
  • an active, aggressive therapist
Q13 | 2. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the first level of needs that must be met are:
  • physical needs
  • safety needs
  • social needs
  • esteem needs
Q14 | Psychologist wrote about the hierarchy of needs
  • albert bandura
  • arthur jensen
  • sigmund freud
  • abraham maslow
Q15 | The humanistic approach understands us in terms of:
  • the unconscious
  • the self
  • the environment
  • the ego
Q16 | Physiological, safety, love and belongingness and esteem are all examples of our ______.
  • sexual needs
  • deficiency needs
  • growth needs
  • all of the above
Q17 | Physiological needs are our
  • emotional needs
  • cognitive needs
  • bodily needs
  • growth needs
Q18 | When we find ourself excluded from groups we want to join, we
  • value ourselves more
  • value ourselves the same
  • value ourselves less
  • neglect
Q19 | Who in childhood influence our self esteem the most
  • parents
  • teachers
  • friends
  • visitors
Q20 | All individuals should give other individuals their:
  • unconditional positive regard
  • unconditional surrender
  • unconditional stimulus
  • all of the above
Q21 | Genuineness, empathy and unconditional positive regard are used to create:
  • conditions of growth
  • conditions of worth
  • conditions of release
  • conditions of love
Q22 | The purpose of humanistic psychotherapy is to allow the individual to move from:
  • ideal self to perceived self
  • ego defence to ego ideal
  • perceived self to ideal self
  • ego ideal to ego defense
Q23 | The humanistic approach uses:
  • the experimental method
  • the case study method
  • the observational method
  • both b and c