Question

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.Online personality tests are just as valid as those offered by a psychology professional.

a. True

b. False

2. Jorge is extremely tense and compulsively clean and tidy. According to Freudian theory, Jorge presents a fixation on the oral stage of psychosexual development.

a. true

b. False

3. According to Jung, our repressed thoughts, undeveloped ideas and forgotten experiences are contained in_

a. the person

b. personal unconscious

c. the archetype

d. the collective unconscious

Answer 1

1) b. FALSE

Online tests are not as valid as those offered by psychology professionals because to conduct tests professional intervention is necessary but the online tests are mere source of pomp and show and they hardly provide reliable data to the people who take these tests.

2) b. FALSE

According to Freudian theory, Fixation of libido at oral stage means that the person would seek to pleasure his sense through his mouth and the symptoms might include sucking of thumb, bitting nails, constant chewing eating, drinking etc.Therefore, the symptoms displayed by Jorge doesn't represent fixation at oral stage.

3) b. Personal Unconscious

Carl Jung's theory of personality states that there are two levels of unconscious, one is the personal unconscious and the other is the collective unconscious. Our repressed thoughts, undeveloped ideas and forgotten experiences are contained in personal unconscious.