Author Question: Allport believed his famous meeting with Freud illustrated: a. how childhood feelings of ... (Read 98 times)

melina_rosy · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Allport believed his famous meeting with Freud illustrated:

a. how childhood feelings of inferiority persist into adulthood.
b. the error of placing too much importance on the unconscious.
c. the power of Freud's psychoanalytic method.
d. how a guilty conscience inevitably will reveal itself.

Question 2

As Allport grew into adulthood, he attempted to identify with:

a. Sigmund Freud, whom he met in Vienna.
b. Karen Horney, with whom he studied in New York.
c. his oldest brother Floyd, a social psychologist.
d. his uncle Steven, a famous artist.

mammy1697 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Allport suspected that psychoanalysis probed the unconscious too deeply, as Freud tried to do with him. Psychology, Allport decided, should pay more attention to conscious or visible motivations. This was the path he chose for his study of personality.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: As Allport grew older, he began to identify with his oldest brother, Floyd, envious of his brother's accomplishments. Well into adulthood, Gordon Allport continued to feel inferior compared to Floyd, whose achievements he tried to emulate.