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When Anna looks at some modern artwork at the museum, she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them. When she tells the stories to her friend, her friend says that the stories reflect Anna’s unconscious thoughts. In psychological terms, what Anna does is most similar to ________.

There were three friends. Maybe you’ve heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly ________.

Carl Jung’s term for collective, universal memories such as the concepts of mother, hero, or villain are ________.

A classmate asks to borrow your notes and you let her.  This is an example of

Asch’s study of conformity showed that

According to Beck, depression is caused by

The 2007 replication of Milgram’s study demonstrated that people in today’s society are _______ willing to administer shocks to another individual at the command of an authority figure as they were in the original 1961 experiment.

Padma is extremely confident and feels that lately she needs very little sleep. In addition, she reports that her thoughts seem to be going fast—similar to watching three television shows at once. Padma most likely is experiencing ________.

Ron, a toddler, is holding a picture and puts it to the receiver of a phone in order to “show” it to his grandmother. This example illustrates ________.

If so few psychologists believe Freud’s theory of personality, why is it still taught in psychology courses?