Neurotic individuals who protect themselves against feelings of insecurity by exploiting others as a means of feeling superior and powerful are called:
a. compliant types
b. detached types
c. anxiety types
d. aggressive types
Question 2In her discussion of female masochism, Horney maintained that:
a. men's greater size and strength could create within women the idea of their own inferiority
b. masochism in women is unrelated to anatomical and physiological differences between the sexes
c. the development of masochism in women is not the result of women's perceptions of their inferiority
d. masochism in women is related to their superior views of their intellect
Question 3In Horney's view, the defense mechanism in which painful experiences are denied or ignored because they are at variance with the idealized self is called:
a. blind spots
b. compartmentalization
c. elusiveness
d. arbitrary rightness
Question 4For Horney, fantasies of neurotic individuals in which they visualize themselves as perfect beings are called:
a. actual selves
b. real selves
c. role models
d. idealized images
Question 5The neurotic trend which protects the person against feelings of basic anxiety by self-effacement and obliteration is called:
a. moving against people
b. moving away from people
c. moving toward people
d. moving toward rejection of people
Question 6Horney believed that the therapist:
a. should be an objective observer during therapy
b. made value judgments during therapy
c. should be passive and nondirective with his/her patients
d. should try to hide his/her values from the patient in order to make the relationship better
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