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Horney believed that modern women experience psychological conflict between


A) adolescence and middle age.
B) love and work.
C) love for their children and love for their parents.
D) the ego and the superego.

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Karen Horney was influenced by Freud but her theories deviated from him by arguing that men envied women because of their capacity for motherhood.

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The more afraid a child is of his or her parents,


A) the more the child must repress hostility.
B) the less the child must repress hostility.
C) the more depressed the child feels.
D) the greater the child's guilt.

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Karen Horney was never married and had no children.

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The flight from womanhood can lead to a(n)


A) inhibition of femininity.
B) inhibited sexual desire.
C) conflict between an unconscious desire to give birth and a fear of sexual intercourse.
D) All the answers.

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Horney selected the case study method, which is similar to Freud, Jung, and Adler's work with patients.

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Conflict in personality derives from the


A) incompatibility among the three neurotic needs.
B) ability to express only one neurotic trend.
C) basic incompatibility of the three neurotic trends.
D) successful completion and integration of all three neurotic trends.

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As a child, Horney


A) was completely secure.
B) initially wanted to be a boy rather than a girl.
C) compensated for her physical inferiority.
D) was rebellious and spiteful.

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Horney's idea that men envy women because of a woman's capacity for motherhood


A) showed that men desire to be women.
B) was later accepted by Freud.
C) derived partly from her own pleasurable experience giving birth.
D) was not seen in her male patients.

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A valid criticism of Horney's personality theory by Freudians is that her theory


A) is an excessive and extreme emphasis on sexuality.
B) does not address trauma in childhood.
C) denies the importance of biological instincts.
D) was more elegantly constructed and more precise than the theory of Freud.

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The idolized self-image helps us to unify the personality

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Horney believed that neurotic people construct an idealized self-image in order to unify the personality. Give a real-life example of this form of neurotic need.

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Sarah is a nursing student in a local college. Her classes demand that she understand the material through the use of memorization. She feels she must be perfect in all her answers in order to get good grades in her courses. She is obsessed with these thoughts, which makes her perform poorly on exams, since her anxiety and fear of failing is so high.

What factor in Horney's childhood is reflected in her personality theory?


A) Horney suffered from sexual conflict.
B) Horney expressed loneliness as an only child.
C) Horney feared that her father or mother did not want her.
D) Horney exhibited perfectionist tendencies.

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When neurotic needs are pursued compulsively, the person


A) engages in all of them.
B) must be institutionalized.
C) tends to focus on only one need.
D) all of the answers

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A person with Horney's _________ type personality would be needy, desperate to have privacy, and a need to feel superior to others.


A) aggressive
B) compliant
C) dominant
D) detached

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Which statement does not reflect Horney's views about childhood?


A) Personality development is a continuous process throughout life.
B) Biological forces are more important than social forces in shaping personality.
C) There should be no discrimination based on gender.
D) A child's security depends entirely on how the parents treat the child.

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For Horney, children develop feelings of security when


A) no trauma is present in childhood.
B) parents show comfort, warmth, and affection.
C) a child becomes independent from parents at an early age.
D) a parent stays home when a child is young.

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Horney was opposed to


A) taking verbatim notes of her sessions.
B) formulating hypotheses.
C) maintaining her data the same way other scientists test their data.
D) clinical observations of her patients.

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Horney believed that dreams are


A) reliable sources of true memories.
B) a continuation of daydreams.
C) creative solutions from the unconscious.
D) actually attempts to resolve problems.

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In Horney's view, the Oedipus complex for women


A) results in conflict between dependence on one's parents and hostility toward them.
B) does not exist.
C) is biologically based.
D) results from non-acceptance of their womanhood.

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