LPC Exam Questions and Answers
Freud's Ego
reality principle; logic; control; executive function; balance or go-between seesaw
Freud's Superego
ego ideal; the moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong; the ideal
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LPC Exam Questions and Answers
Freud's Ego - answer reality principle; logic; control; executive function; balance or
go-between seesaw
Freud's Superego - answer ego ideal; the moral component of personality that
incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong; the ideal
Lazarus - answer Behaviorist; Multimodal therapy; Basic ID (Think Lazarus didn't
have to wear an ID--he wore a shroud);
Behavior; Affective responses; Sensations; Imagery; Cognitions; Interpersonal
relationships; Drugs
Perry - answer dualistic thinking by teens; black and white; later relativism
Keagan - answer construct reality thru life span; think KELLOG cereal you eat all
your life and in childhood you aren't sure what's real or fantasy
idiographic approach - answer intensive studies of individuals
Nomothetic approach - answer examines personality in large groups of people, with
the aim of making generalizations about personality structure; think NORMS
John B. Watson - answer father of American behaviorism
Milton Erickson - answer hypnosis & work with Haley
Erik Erikson - answer 8 Epigenetic, psychosocial stages; identity crisis
Lorenz - answer critical period and imprinting (mother/goslings)
Seligman - answer learned helplessness (think, a MAN's LEG hurt)
Kohlberg - answer moral development; 3 levels each with 2 stages
Preconventional (reward/punish); Conventional (social); Postconventional (self-
accepted principles)
Heinz Dilemma - answer Kohlberg: moral choices--scenarios: Man needs drug to
save wife's life. Drug is too expensive so man steals it. (Think-- Heinz ketchup is drug)
Identity crisis - answer Erikson
,Harry Stack Sullivan - answer Psychiatry of Interpersonal Relations- a stage theory
for childhood development. parents to child Good Me; Bad Me (think a STACK of Uno
cards of STAGES)
John Bowlby - answer bonding and attachment; object loss (protest; despair;
detachment); think a BOW curves around an arrow
Harry Harlow - answer Studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers
Coopersmith - answer conducted an experiment on parenting styles and self-esteem
to find that authoritative parents produce children with the highest self-esteem and
indulgent parents produce children with the lowest self-esteem. CLEAR rules important;
Think Dr. COOPER helped us to see CLEARLY
Eleanor Gibson - answer The "visual cliff" experiment. Showed that depth perception
cues are innate. Think: ELEANOR started down a slippery slope.
John Locke - answer Empiricism; people learn from experiences; Think--John
LOCKE learned which KEY worked
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational - answer
birth to 2 years; 2 to 7 years; 7 to 12 years; 12 years plus
Havinghurst - answer Developmental tasks for each dev. stage; Think: TASKS you
HAVE to do.
Loevinger - answer stretched Piaget's model of development into stages of
adulthood. Believed Ego adapts to demands and is an important basis for critical
thinking. Highest level is integrated (think LOVE Freud because of his ego)
Positive Reinforcement - answer Add something AFTER to increase behavior
Negative Reinforcement - answer Remove something AFTER to increase behavior
C. G. Jung - answer analytic psychology; aniMA (feminine); aniMUS (masculine)
parts of personality; archetypes; collective consciousness; Mandala; self-unification
Parsons - answer FATHER of guidance counseling; secondary age
Levinson - answer stages of men's life; midlife crisis (Think: Oh no, It's too late--the
LEAVEN has already made the bread rise)
Nosology - answer classification of disease
,Wolpe - answer systemic desensitization (think: need to desensitize from the
fear/phobia of a WOLF)
Berne - answer transactional analysis, each person has 3 ego states, parent, adult,
child (think: PARENTS tell children not to BURN themselves)
Macroculture - answer Dominant culture
Durkheim - answer founder of modern sociology; researched suicide (think: you
need a DIRK to commit suicide)
William McDougall - answer Social Psychology, 'hormic psychology' (individual and
group behavior is result of inherited tendencies to seek goals); Said selective breeding
would improve gene pool; scientific racism; Think: Scottish kilts--breeding
Leon Festinger - answer Cognitive dissonance (Think: it FESTERS in the head)
BOGardUS - answer Social distance scale to measure how individual felt toward
other ethic groups (think: a finger pointing at some other group far away-that's BOGUS)
third-culture kid - answer children raised in a culture that is different from parents'
culture
modal personality - answer those character traits that occur with the highest
frequency in a social group and are therefore the most representative of its culture
Monolithic Perspective - answer counselor perceives all the people in a given group
as being identical; stereotyping
Victor FrankL - answer Father of Logotherapy; Existentialist; Survived a
concentration camp--think- he needed to be FRANK and go deep to make sense of his
EXperience
emic perspective - answer insider's perspective of a culture (Think: ME--as an
individual)
etic perspective - answer outsider's perspective of a culture; all are the same;
universalism transcending culture; Think: ET is from the outside and thinks humans are
all the same
Autoplastic - answer Change comes from within; Change your perspective of
problem (think: AUTO--self change)
Alloplastic - answer Change comes from the outside, change ALL the environment.
, Allport - answer Social helps learning (think: at the AIRPORT we all learn flashcards
about culture together before going on mission trip)
Yalom - answer Existential; studied death; think this brings PEACE
Moreno - answer group therapy and psychodrama (think: Coach Moreno got the P.E.
students to work in groups)
Ann Roe - answer Jobs meet childhood needs
Barber - answer cognitive theory of hypnotism (think: the BARBER had to hypnotize
him to cut his hair that way)
Millgram Experiment - answer explored under what conditions people would obey
authority; Delivered supposed deadly electrical shocks (think: MILLions of GRAMS of
electricity)
approach-avoidance conflict - answer Conflict that results from having to choose an
alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Sherif - answer Robbers Cave Experiment; 2 hostile groups worked together
because they had a joint goal (think: SHERRIFS catch ROBBERS)
Asch situation - answer conformity even when answer is clearly incorrect
Freud Five stages - answer oral; anal; phallic; latent; genital
Arthur Jensen - answer Sparked the black vs. white IQ controversy in 1969
social exchange theory - answer relationship will last if benefits outweigh the costs
sleeper effect - answer consumers forget the source of a message more quickly than
they forget the message; impact of message comes later--delayed
Structuralism - answer interaction between people and environment to learn and
develop (organismic view)
maturation - answer organismic developmental view that learning happens
automatically with maturity
Nativism - answer knowledge is inNATe
rapprochement - answer Mahler: toddler alternate btwn wanting closeness and
distance with parent
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