EPPP: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Adler's individual psychology is based on the assumption that neurotic behavior is attributable to which
of the following?
A. an unresolved unconscious conflict
B. a boundary disturbance
C. a failure to satisfy innate needs
D. a mistaken style of life - ANSWER D
As described by Carl Rogers, incongruence between self-concept and experience is caused by which of
the following?
A. conditions of worth
B. a chronic boundary disturbance
C. "bad choices"
D. feelings of inferiority - ANSWER A
Practitioners of Glasser's reality therapy view the primary motivator of behavior to be which of the
following?
A. unconscious instinctual drives
B. basic needs
C. self-actualization
D. striving for superiority - ANSWER B
Answer B is correct. Glasser proposed that people are motivated to fulfill five basic needs: survival, love
and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
A practitioner of Freudian psychoanalysis is most likely to interpret the artistic endeavors of his client as
a diversion of the client's unacceptable aggressive urges and a manifestation of which of the following?
A. displacement
, B. sublimation
C. projection
D. reaction formation - ANSWER B
As described by Mahler, the beginning of object constancy follows which substage of separation-
individuation?
A. displacement
B. differentiation
C. practicing
D. rapprochement - ANSWER D
Answer D is correct. Mahler identified four substages of the separation-individuation process:
differentiation, practicing, rapprochement, and beginning of object constancy (which is also known as
the consolidation and object constancy substage).
Jung referred to the process of developing a unique and unified personality as:
A. differentiation.
B. self-actualization.
C. individuation.
D. introjection. - ANSWER C
Answer C is correct. According to Jung, individuation occurs during the second half of life and is "the
process by which a person becomes a psychological 'in-dividual,' that is, a separate, indivisible unity or
whole" (1968, p. 275).
Which element of Seligman's PERMA model of well-being is characterized by a state of flow?
A. engagement
B. meaning
C. accomplishment
D. relationships - ANSWER A
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