Freud called dreams the royal road to the unconscious because
A) he believed people would only tell him about unimportant dreams, so he could dismiss the topics
they brought up.
B) he believed people intentionally dreamed about material they wanted to discuss in therapy but were
afraid to.
C) he believed they kept people from uncovering their true feelings.
D) he believed defenses were lowered during sleep and repressed material would start to come out in
dreams.
Question 2Which of the following statements about brain dysfunction and psychiatric disorders is FALSE?
A) Identifiable brain damage is often the cause of psychiatric disorders.
B) Changes in brain function appear to play a role in many psychiatric disorders.
C) Brain development can be altered by experience, potentially leading to changes in the brain that
increase the risk of developing a psychiatric condition.
D) Brain damage may increase the risk of developing a psychiatric condition.
Question 3Neurobiological factors involved in panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder provide evidence for
the hypothesis that
A) both disorders are caused by an excess of the GABA neurotransmitter.
B) the two disorders are genetically identical.
C) panic may be an acute version of generalized anxiety disorder.
D) fear and anxiety are fundamentally distinct.
Question 4Jack tells his therapist about a dream in which he struggles to drive a car that takes him in directions he
does not want to go.
The therapist interprets the dream to mean that Jack is trying to get control of his
career future but feels he is being controlled by others. This suggests that the
A) latent content of the dream is the story of trying to drive the car.
B) manifest content of the dream is the story of trying to drive the car.
C) latent content of the dream is impossible to determine.
D) manifest content of the dream is the issue of Jack's career future.
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