Damage to Which Lobe of the Brain (That Normally Plans

question 34

Multiple Choice

Damage to which lobe of the brain (that normally plans appropriate behavior) has been most frequently associated with personality abnormalities?

• A) Frontal
• B) Parietal
• C) Occipital
• D) Temporal
• E) Insula

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Definitions:

Oedipus

In psychoanalytic theory, a complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of 4, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.

Electra Complex

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Identification

Defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory in which a child has an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and hostility toward the same-sex parent.