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(3) Freud Flashcards

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What is the The seduction theory?

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child sexual abuse seen as origin of neurosis

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What is repression?

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the act of putting traumatic thoughts and feelings in unconscious

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What is the role of the unconscious?

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Can’t deal with issues day to day, pushes down into unconscious to deal with daily life, trauma and pain

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What did Freud suggest mainfestation in dreams meant?

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able to recall dreams, surface level

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What did Freud suggest latent content in dreams meant?

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the actual meaning behind a dream

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What is the libido?

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Children born with a fixed amount of mental energy

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What is the Thanatos?

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the death instinct

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What are the fixations at the oral stage?

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eating disorder, smoking or alcoholism

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What are the fixations at the anal stage?

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stingy, obsessive-compulsive (anally retentive) or totally disorganised (anally expulsive)

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What are the fixations at the phallic stage?

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problems maintaining long term stable relationships

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When does the oedipus complex occur?

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The phallic stage

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What is the female version of the oedipus complex?

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The electra complex

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What are the fixations at the latency stage?

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non- acquisition of self-confidence and self-esteem needed for social interaction

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Freud believed at what age is an adult personality formed?

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5 years

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What is the id?

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pleasure principle, primary process thinking – irrational thinking, avoid hunger and pain

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What is the ego?

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reality principle, secondary process thinking – rational thought, what is happening around you, using words to demand and ask for things

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What is the superego?

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moral imperative, what is right and what is wrong

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What are the purpose of defence mechanisms?

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Protects our self-esteem, keeps upsetting things in our unconscious

19
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When do defence mechanisms develop?

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Latency stage

20
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What is projection?

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Blaming others for our shortcomings, we externalise unacceptable feelings and then attribute them to others

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What is reaction formation?

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Use this defence to overcome impulses that are unacceptable to us, and to gain control, exaggerates tendencies that are the complete opposite

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What is sublimation?

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Instinctual drives are diverted from their original aim and channelled into something socially desirable

23
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What is regression?

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Where individuals regress to is determined by the existence of fixation points in their development

24
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What is Psychoanalytic therapy?

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involves free association, transference, counter-transference, awareness of defences (insight) and other processes

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What is Counter transference?

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both therapist and patient work together

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How does Rycroft (1958, 1985) criticise Freud?

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discusses the functions of words in psychoanalysis, which he says as a linguistic translation exercise, not a testable theory

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What are the key criticisms of Freud’s theory?

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Psychosexual development is vague, psychosexual drives overly stressed in development, untestable

28
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What is wrong with Lab experiments?

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unrealistic, and – (when on animals) inappropriate

29
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What is wrong with Questionnaires?

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constrain answers; – recall errors, social desirability errors, but improving methodology

30
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What is wrong with Observational studies?

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uncontrolled, unquantified, but of increasing value as sophistication and worth of qualitative methodologies have improved.

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What did Blum and Miller (1952) research?

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To test whether measures of oral behaviour correlated with measures of oral personality/character

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What did Blum and Miller (1952) find?

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Some hypotheses regarding orality and personality were confirmed, notably with respect to those personality features listed on the previous slide, however overall results were equivocal

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What did Fisher and Greenberg, 1996 find?

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support the concepts of oral and anal personalities but not Oedipal and Electra complex

34
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What did Hunt, 1979 find?

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No evidence of toilet-training practices on development of anal characteristics

35
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What did Newman et al., 1997 support?

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The idea of projection

36
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What did Solms (1997) find?

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outlines research on the neuropsychology of dreaming, showing that activation of instinctual and emotional mechanisms in the centre of the brain initiate dreaming

37
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What did Panksepp (1999) find?

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Found an area of the brain that initiates goal-seeking behaviour, involved in dreaming

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