Identify a true statement in the context of Loftus's studies concerning false memories.
a. A therapist could implant false memories knowingly or unknowingly.
b. A person's memories can't always be judged as true.
c. Repressed memories of childhood may not be accurate in reality.
d. All of these are correct.
Question 2Childhood sexual abuse:
a. can be debilitating through life and, in reality, is more widespread than Freud envisioned.
b. is removed out of a person's awareness and later reliably recovered.
c. can result from the occurrence of Freudian slips.
d. is to be ignored and dismissed as unreal by a therapist counseling a victim.
Question 3An example of a Freudian slip would be:
a. Oops, I forgot to lock the door
b. Is my slip showing?
c. The fact that I lost my wallet came as a sham dock to me
d. I thought I brought my car keys with me, but I left them at home.
Question 4Which of the following Freudian ideas has
not been supported by research?
a. The personality being subject to little change after age five
b. The existence of verbal Freudian slips
c. The existence of the unconscious
d. The defense mechanism of repression
Question 5Much research on the nature of the unconscious involves _____ in which stimuli are presented to people below their level of conscious awareness.
a. catharsis
c. subliminal perception
b. cathectic attachment
d. sublimation
Question 6Freud's concepts of the ego, id, and libido:
a. have a high degree of objectivity.
c. are reinforced and supported in research.
b. have great credibility.
d. could not be tested experimentally.
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