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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?
(a) Escapism.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Regression.
(d) Two steps back.

2. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Familiarity complex.
(b) Bad habits.
(c) Revisiting the past.
(d) Repetition compulsion.

3. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.
(a) Physical.
(b) Math.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Verbal.

4. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?
(a) Hide thier crimes.
(b) Lie to authority figures.
(c) Confess.
(d) Leave self-damaging evidence.

5. "It is __________ to grow up."
(a) Exciting.
(b) Fun.
(c) Tough.
(d) Depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

2. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?

3. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?

4. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?

5. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who first discovered the Oedipus complex? How did he/she describe it?

2. Describe the four stages of standing alone.

3. What does our superego have to do with resolving the Oedipus complex?

4. Endocrinologist Estelle Ramey uses what example to support her theory that virtually all differences between male and female are cultural?

5. Denying hate prevents what, according to Winicott?

6. Briefly describe the difference between infantile love, immature love, and mature love.

7. Rather than be trapped in mourning for what we did not get as children, what does the author propose we do?

8. Why is Chapter 1 entitled, "The High Cost of Separation"?

9. Why were Hansel and Gretel so close to each other relationally?

10. What happens when we do not behave in accordance with our conscience?

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