Homework 8 Personality And Psyc Disord Hellip 
PSY 102: Psychology in the Modern World Your Name:
Instructor: Bob Melara Your Section:
FALL 2012 Your TA’s Name:
** Answer the questions in your own words, Type your answers, make sure you answer all parts, print the answered homework and take it with you to your next recitation! Only the two lowest homework grades can be dropped **
Homework #8 (Personality and Psychological Disorders)
1. During a heated argument with his father, 17-year old Carlos developed a paralysis of his right arm. Medical examinations can find no physical cause for the paralysis. Use the psychoanalytic perspective to explain how the paralysis may be Carlos’ attempt to deal with an unconscious conflict between his id and superego.
2. a) Describe the function of defense mechanisms. b) Name six of them and c) explain each.
3. a) Identify Freud’s psychosexual stages of development, b) and describe the effects of fixation on behavior.
4. According to Freud, personality is formed as the child passes through a series of ___psychosexual____ stages, each of which is focused on a distinct body area called an _________erogenous_________ ________zone________.
5. Our tendency to overestimate the extent to which others are noticing and evaluating us is called the __spotlight_____ _____effecr_______.
6. In generalized anxiety disorder, the body reacts physiologically with the arousal of the _____autonomic_____ nervous system. In some instances, anxiety may intensify dramatically and unpredictably and be accompanied by chest pain or choking, for example; people with these symptoms are said to have ___generalized__ ________anxiety______. This anxiety may escalate into a minutes-long episode of intense fear, or a _______panic________ ___attack______.
7. A person who develops two or more distinct personalities is suffering from _____Dissasociative_________ ____Identity________ disorder.
8. The distorted, false beliefs of schizophrenia patients are called
Instructor: Bob Melara Your Section:
FALL 2012 Your TA’s Name:
** Answer the questions in your own words, Type your answers, make sure you answer all parts, print the answered homework and take it with you to your next recitation! Only the two lowest homework grades can be dropped **
Homework #8 (Personality and Psychological Disorders)
1. During a heated argument with his father, 17-year old Carlos developed a paralysis of his right arm. Medical examinations can find no physical cause for the paralysis. Use the psychoanalytic perspective to explain how the paralysis may be Carlos’ attempt to deal with an unconscious conflict between his id and superego.
2. a) Describe the function of defense mechanisms. b) Name six of them and c) explain each.
3. a) Identify Freud’s psychosexual stages of development, b) and describe the effects of fixation on behavior.
4. According to Freud, personality is formed as the child passes through a series of ___psychosexual____ stages, each of which is focused on a distinct body area called an _________erogenous_________ ________zone________.
5. Our tendency to overestimate the extent to which others are noticing and evaluating us is called the __spotlight_____ _____effecr_______.
6. In generalized anxiety disorder, the body reacts physiologically with the arousal of the _____autonomic_____ nervous system. In some instances, anxiety may intensify dramatically and unpredictably and be accompanied by chest pain or choking, for example; people with these symptoms are said to have ___generalized__ ________anxiety______. This anxiety may escalate into a minutes-long episode of intense fear, or a _______panic________ ___attack______.
7. A person who develops two or more distinct personalities is suffering from _____Dissasociative_________ ____Identity________ disorder.
8. The distorted, false beliefs of schizophrenia patients are called