A region of the mind that corresponds to one's present awareness is called ______.

A region of the mind that corresponds to one's present awareness is called ______.
 
  a. conscious c. superego
   b. superconscious d. hypothalamus

Question 2

Which of the following is one of the three structures of the mind described by Freud?
 
  a. the conscious c. the superego
   b. the post conscious d. the libido

Question 3

Beliefs in possession or demonology persisted until the rise of the natural sciences in the
   ______.
 
  a. 15th century c. 18th century
   b. 16th century d. 19th century

Question 4

Which of the following has been a negative effect of the deinstitutionalization movement?
 
  a. a significant increase in violent crime by those who were released
   b. a nearly total collapse of the nationwide system of mental hospitals and community
   mental health centers
   c. an increase in the number of mentally ill patients requiring long-term care
   d. the abandonment of many former patients who, now homeless, wander the streets of American cities

Question 5

According to Freud, abnormal behavior patterns represent symptoms________________.
 
  a. indicating that the individual is overwhelmed by negative environmental stimuli
   b. resulting from a physiological breakdown in the neural pathways of the
   cerebral cortex
   c. indicating that the sufferers consciously use illness to manipulate others into paying attention to them
   d. of dynamic struggles taking place within the unconscious mind

Question 6

According to Freud, unconscious motives and conflicts revolve around ______.
 
  a. a drive for self-actualization
  b. primitive sexual and aggressive instincts
  c. learned motives
  d. irrational thinking

Question 7

Between the 1950s and 1990s, the mental hospital population
   across the United States has ______.
 
  a. increased dramatically
  b. remained relatively the same
  c. increased the number of female patients while decreasing the number of male patients
  d. decreased dramatically