2 - Psychoanalysis 1

Question 1

Leibnitz’s theory of psychic entities, called monads, which are similar to perceptions

Petites perceptions
Apperception

Answer 1

Monadology

Question 2

The process of reducing or eliminating a complex by recalling it to conscious awareness and allowing it to be expressed

Answer 2

Catharsis

Question 3

The process by which a patient responds to the therapist as if the therapist were a significant person (such as a parent) in the patient’s life

Answer 3

Transference

Question 4

A psychotherapeutic technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind

Answer 4

Free association

Question 5

A psychotherapeutic technique involving the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts

Answer 5

Dream analysis

Question 6

An act of forgetting or a lapse in speech that reflects unconscious motives or anxieties

Answer 6

Freudian slip (Fehlleistung)

Question 7

A blockage or refusal to disclose painful memories during a free-association session

Answer 7

Resistance

Question 8

The process of barring unacceptable ideas, memories, or desires from conscious awareness, leaving them to operate in the unconscious mind

Answer 8

Repression

Question 9

To Freud, mental representations of internal stinuli (such as hunger) that motivate personality

Propelling or motivating forces of the personality, the biological forces that release mental energy

Trieb (impulse or driving force)

Answer 9

Instincts

Question 10

To Freud, the psychic energy that drives a person toward pleasurable thoughts and behaviors

Answer 10

Libido

Question 11

Hunger, thirst, sex

Self preservation and survival

Answer 11

Life instincts

Question 12

Aggression and hatred
Masochism and suicide

Destructive force

Answer 12

Death instincts

Question 13

The source of psychic energy and the aspect of personality allied with the instincts

Most primitive, least accessible, pleasure principle

Answer 13

Id

Question 14

The rational aspect of personality responsible for controlling the instincts

Reality principle, mediator, reason,

Answer 14

Ego

Question 15

The moral aspect of personality derived from internal parental and societal values and standards

Morality principle, perfection

Answer 15

Superego

Question 16

Functions as a warning that the ego is being threatened

Objective - actual dangers
Neurotic - fear of being punished for expressing impulsive desires
Moral - fear of one’s conscience

Answer 16

Anxiety

Question 17

Behaviors that represent unconscious denials or distortions of reality but which are adopted to protect the ego against anxiety

Answer 17

Defense mechanisms

Question 18

Denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic event; a person living with a terminal illness may deny the imminence of death

Answer 18

Denial

Question 19

Shifting id impulses from a threatening or unavailable object to an object that is available, such as replacing hostility towards one’s boss with hostility towards one’s child

Answer 19

Displacement

Question 20

Attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else, such as saying you do not really hate your professor but that he or she hates you

Answer 20

Projection

Question 21

Reinterpreting behavior to make it more acceptable and less threatening, such as saying the job from which you were fired was not a really good job anyway

Answer 21

Rationalization

Question 22

Expressing an id impulse that is the opposite of the one that is driving the person. For example, someone disturbed by sexual longings may become a crusader against pornography

Answer 22

Reaction formation

Question 23

Retreating to an earlier, less frustrating period of life and displaying the childish and dependent behaviors characteristic of that more secure time

Answer 23

Regression

Question 24

Denying the existence of something that causes anxiety, such as involuntarily removing from consciousness some memory or perception that brings discomfort

Answer 24

Repression

Question 25

Altering or displacing id impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable behaviors, such as diverting sexual energy into artistically creative behaviors

Answer 25

Sublimation

Question 26

In psychoanalytic theory, the developmental stages of childhood centering on erogenous zones

Answer 26

Psychosexual stages

Question 27

At ages four to five, the unconscious desire of a boy for his mother and the desire to replace or destroy his father

Answer 27

Oedipus complex