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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I hate you because I love you.
(b) I need you because I love you.
(c) I love you because I need you.
(d) I am loved because I love.

2. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
(a) Few.
(b) Many.
(c) Flimsy.
(d) Fifty.

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

4. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?
(a) A grain of jealousy.
(b) A grain of insecurity.
(c) A grain of spite.
(d) A grain of hatred.

5. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Stanley Milgram.
(c) Richard Paredes.
(d) B.F. Skinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what do babies need?

2. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?

3. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?

4. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?

5. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?

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