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Question 1

What is free association?

Answer 1

This is when an individual is told a word or shown an image then says the first thing that comes to mind

Question 2

Explain how people use an iceberg to describe Freud’s ideas on the mind.

Answer 2

The mind consisted of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind. The conscious is above water, the preconscious located right under the water, with the unconscious mind located deep below the surface

Question 3

Ego

Answer 3

Controls a person’s impulses and deals with external stimuli. It is also the overseer of the superego and id

Question 4

superego

Answer 4

Located in a person’s preconscious. It represents a person’s ideals, judgements, and an individual’s moral components of their personality

Question 5

Id

Answer 5

Located in a person’s unconscious mind. This strives to satisfy a person’s most basic drives, with the focus solely on pleasure, such as hunger and sex

Question 6

What did Freud believe people were born with?

Answer 6

A libido, which is psychic energy that is sexual and aggressive impluses that an individual must learn to control

Question 7

Explain how the Ego works with the superego and id.

Answer 7

The ego seeks to control the superego and id. The id wants instant gratification and the superego seeks moral decisions, the ego takes both sides and decides what a person should do

Question 8

Explain what defense mechanisms are and what Freud believed they are used for.

Answer 8

Defense mechanisms are used by the ego to protect itself and reduce anxiety. They often focus on distorting reality and happen unconsciously. The most basic mechanism was repression

Question 9

Explain what Aldred Adler thought about Freud’s ideas

Answer 9

Adler believed that it was not a child sexual tensions that significantly shaped a childs personality, but rather social tension. He believed that children strived to conquer their inferiority complex, children want to feel a sense of belonging

Question 10

Explain what Carl Jung believed about a person’s unconscious mind

Answer 10

He believed that the unconscious mind had a lot of influence over a person, just like Freud. But he believed that people have a collective unconscious which is shared inherited memories from past generations