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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____ is part of the foundation for the origin of many other psychological processes.

2. The community of symbols is often greater than the community of _____.

3. Who is in Vienna with the woman who is being treated by Freud and gets to prolong her treatment for another year?

4. An adult learns to postpone _____.

5. What does the symbol of a room mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do definite dreams of painful content fit into Freud's three classes of dreams according to their relationship to desire?

2. What type of dream that expresses a desire is invariably accompanied by a feeling of dread and why?

3. Why does Freud say that dream work is a special psychical process?

4. Why is the boy in the story by Baldwin Groller considered a "bad boy"?

5. What happens as a result of the dreamer's lack of knowledge of symbols?

6. What are the foundational elements of the origin of many psychological processes, and how are they observed?

7. Why do children sleep through the night?

8. What does Freud say the ability of dreams to tell the future?

9. How do speeches use the same idea as calculations in dreams?

10. Why is displacement the most striking of all dream performances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what Freud means by dream displacement. How does this relate to dream condensation? What is the importance of events that happen the day before the dream in illustrating the concept of dream displacement?

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Freud means by a dream facade. What makes up the dream facade? How is it used in dream analysis?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the significance of forgetting aspects of a dream upon waking. What does censorship have to do with this? What does repression have to do with this?

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