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EPPP - Clinical Psychology Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
What are the basic biological drives in Freud's Structural Theory? - ✔️✔️Self Preservation
Instincts, Sexual Instincts (libido), and Aggressive Drives
In Freud's theory, what is the logical ordered aspect of personality? - ✔️✔️Ego
What principle does the Ego focus on? - ✔️✔️The reality principle and functions to
suspend the pleasure principle according to the requirements of the environment
What part of the ego makes reason and judgement possible? - ✔️✔️The organizational,
critical and synthesizing ability
How does the superego form? - ✔️✔️As a result of a child satisfactorily passing through
the Oedipal development stage
What is the role of the superego? - ✔️✔️Part of the ego that acts a conscience
What did early psychoanalytic theory emphasize as the basic dynamic of personality? -
✔️✔️Conflict
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Who is the ego in constant conflict with? - ✔️✔️ID, Superego, & Reality
What are defense mechanisms purpose? - ✔️✔️Ego's way to relieve pressure from drives
- when the ego does not give into the id, there is constant pressure until some
satisfactory outlet is found
How else could you define a defense mechanism? - ✔️✔️Are unconscious mechanisms
that operate to avoid activating the anxiety that would be caused by conscious
awareness of the conflict
What is the most basic defense mechanism and underlies all the defenses? -
✔️✔️Repression
What is the aim of psychoanalysis? - ✔️✔️make the unconscious conscious, to bring
conflicts out of repression
How does psychoanalytic theory, define anxiety? - ✔️✔️signals the breakdown of the
defensive structure such as when the defenses do not work well and an impulse starts
to break through
What is signal anxiety? - ✔️✔️Impulse is seeking expression
What is the primary process? Who governs it? - ✔️✔️Unconscious mental processes
characterized by a lack of logic, ease of substitution of one idea for another and by the
immediate discharge of energy. It is governed by the id and the pleasure principle.
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What is the secondary process and who governs it? - ✔️✔️Conscious mental process,
governed by the conscious part of the ego, functions according to the reality principle
and is logical and sequantial
What is resistance in psychoanalytic therapy? - ✔️✔️when patients are unable to recall
the traumatic memories that give rise to their symptoms
What is transference? - ✔️✔️Therapists neutrality allows the patient to project onto the
therapist positive or negative feelings he or she originally had for another significant
person from the past.
What is repetition compulsion? - ✔️✔️Apart of transference, one repeats feelings and
affects from the past in the present. As a repetition of unresolved unconscious conflicts,
patients may experience love, hate, or erotic feelings for their therapist.
What is positive transference? - ✔️✔️displaced love longings or the feelings of affection,
openness, and friendliness that allow for a working relationship between the patient and
the therapist/therapy.
What did Zetzel call positive transference in 1956 and similarly Greenson in 1965? -
✔️✔️Zetzel called it "therapeutic alliance" and Greenson called it "working alliance" -
therapeutic alliance has been found to be an early indicator of therapeutic outcome
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According to Freud, how important is transference? - ✔️✔️Transference is necessary for
the process of treatment and working through transference is important source of
personal growth
What is countertransference? - ✔️✔️Therapist's INAPPROPRIATE reactions to a patient
based on his or own enactment of personal needs and resistance to the treatment.
As defined by Greenson (1965), what are the four steps of psychoanalysis? - ✔️✔️1.
Confrontation 2. Clarification 3. Interpretation 4. Working Through
What is confrontation? - ✔️✔️Patient has to be shown that he or she is behaving in a
neurotic way
What is clarification? - ✔️✔️Trying to understand what, why, how the patient is resisting -
issues motivating the behavior are explored.
What is interpretation? - ✔️✔️Interpretations must be given in a manner that the patient
can hear. Interpretations are given again and again in order for true psychic change to
occur. Interpretation leads to insight, catharsis, and working through.
What is catharsis? - ✔️✔️Emotional release resulting from the recall of unconscious
material.
What is working through? - ✔️✔️Assimilation of insights into the personality
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