DrQuack Touches Specific Bumps on a Patient's Skull and Then

question 255

Multiple Choice

Dr.Quack touches specific bumps on a patient's skull and then indicates specific character traits for the patient,for example,"This patient is cautious." Dr.Quack is engaging in:

• A)structuralism.
• B)phrenology.
• C)mesmerism.
• D)psychoanalysis.

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Definitions:

Adult Personality

Characteristics and patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that are established during adulthood.

Ego

In Freud’s structural model, the part of personality that considers external reality while mediating between the demands of the id and the superego.

Instinctual Influences

Innate, biological drives or motivations that impact human behavior and decision-making, often operating outside of conscious awareness.

Neo-Freudian Theorist

Psychologists who have adapted and expanded upon Sigmund Freud's original theories of psychoanalysis while incorporating their own beliefs about the human psyche and behavior.