According to Horney, the urge toward self-realization derives from:
a. an innate potential to fulfill life's ultimate goal.
b. the impact of social forces in adolescence.
c. our need to become self-sufficient.
d. a continuous conflict among the neurotic trends.
Question 2Horney believed that neuroses and conflicts can be avoided when children are raised:
a. with love, acceptance, and trust.
b. with independence and discipline.
c. to compromise with others.
d. to become power oriented.
Question 3In context of defining roles, Horney believes 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.
Question 4In Horney's view, the Oedipus complex in boys:
a. develops when parents act to undermine a child's security.
b. does not exist.
c. is biologically based.
d. results from the envy of the female capacity for motherhood.
Question 5Identify a true statement about the flight from womanhood as proposed by Horney.
a. It leads to the denial of femininity.
b. It inhibits sexual desire.
c. It results in distrusting and resenting men.
d. All of these are correct.
Question 6According to Horney, a woman's sense of inferiority is:
a. realistic and true for all women.
b. a consequence of penis envy.
c. biologically based.
d. socially and culturally based.
Question 7Horney believed that men often express and compensate for womb envy:
a. by undergoing sex-change surgeries.
b. with feelings of depression and inferiority.
c. by seeking achievement in their work.
d. through the mechanism of reaction formation.
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