Allport believed his famous meeting with Freud illustrated:
a. how childhood feelings of inferiority persist into adulthood.
b. the error of placing too much importance on the unconscious.
c. the power of Freud's psychoanalytic method.
d. how a guilty conscience inevitably will reveal itself.
Question 2As Allport grew into adulthood, he attempted to identify with:
a. Sigmund Freud, whom he met in Vienna.
b. Karen Horney, with whom he studied in New York.
c. his oldest brother Floyd, a social psychologist.
d. his uncle Steven, a famous artist.
Question 3As a child, Allport was:
a. plagued by feelings of inferiority.
b. highly disturbed and unhealthy.
c. popular outside his family.
d. interested in sports and outdoor games.
Question 4Allport's own childhood was characterized by:
a. a doting mother.
c. a punitive and demanding father.
b. feelings of isolation.
d. many playmates and friends.
Question 5Which of the following was Allport's argument against Freud's psychoanalysis?
a. People are generally unaware of the forces that motivate them.
b. There exists a continuum between the normal and the abnormal.
c. Functional similarities in personality exist between child and adult or animal and human.
d. Neurotics, children, and animals, should not be compared with normal adults.
Question 6What did Allport believe was the biggest difference between normal and abnormal people?
a. The abnormal personality functioned at an infantile level.
b. The study of the abnormal person is more important.
c. The unconscious is important only in the behavior of normal people.
d. None of these are correct.
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