Approaches (Key Terms)

Question 1

Psychodynamic

Unconscious mind

Answer 1

Consists of mental processes that are inaccessible to consciousness but still influences us

Question 2

Psychodynamic

Id

Answer 2

Part of the personality that exists from birth and drives us
Acts according to the pleasure principle

Question 3

Psychodynamic

Ego

Answer 3

Part of the personality that acts rationally - balancing id and superego
Develops at 2-4 years old and acts according to the ’morality principle’

Question 4

Psychodynamic

Superego

Answer 4

Part of the personality concerned with keeping social norms
Develops around 4-5 years old and acts according to our ’morality principle’

Question 5

Psychodynamic

Defends Mechanism

Answer 5

Unconscious strategies used by the ego to manage anxiety by redirecting psychic energy (e.g. repression, displacement, denial)

Question 6

Psychodynamic

Psychosexual Stages

Answer 6

Freud believes that humans progress through ’psychosexual stages’ during development of the psych
He named 5 stages:
oral behaviour (0-18 months)
anal (18 months-3.5 years)
** phallic** (3.5-6 years)
latency (6 years - puberty)
genital (puberty onward)