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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Jung and Adler.
(b) Skinner and Sullivan.
(c) Piaget and Spock.
(d) Freud and Erikson.

2. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up our need for control.
(b) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(c) To give up on being one with our mother.
(d) To give up the many identities we try out.

3. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?
(a) The inadequate feelings of childhood.
(b) The Oedipus complex.
(c) Our fear of abandoment.
(d) Our fear of authority.

4. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?
(a) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.
(b) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.
(c) Our desire to learn versus our desire to have fun.
(d) Our desire to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.

5. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."
(a) Primarily sexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Bisexual.
(d) Asexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.

2. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

3. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?

4. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

5. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

(see the answer key)

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