Assumptions

Question 1

Who created this approach?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud

Question 2

When was this originated?

Answer 2

19th century

Question 3

What is assumption 1?

Answer 3

Behaviour can be explained by the tripartite model of personality

Question 4

What is the tripartite personality?

Answer 4

Id
Ego
Super ego

Question 5

Tripartite- what is the id?

Answer 5

Is the primitive biological part of the mind
Present in the newborn infant and consists of basic biological impulses like hunger and thirst
-Works on the pleasure impulse
-Motivated to satisfy urges and wishes
-Driven to seek out pleasure and gratification and avoid displeasure

Question 6

Tripartite- what is the ego?

Answer 6

-Develops as the child grows, 2 years of age
-Aims to gratify the ids impulse in line with realistically possible and what’s morally acceptable by considering the environment its in
-Runs on the realistic principle

Question 7

Tripartite- what is the super ego?

Answer 7

-Develops last
-Judges if actions are moral or immoral
-Its a consciousness
-Violating the super ego standards or even the impulses may cause anxiety (unconscious but represented like guilt)
-Runs on morality principle

Question 8

Tripartite- How do they work together?

Answer 8

Id and superego are usually at odds about what’s morally rights
The egos job is to mediate between the two to satisfy both the id and the ego

Question 9

What is assumption 2?

Answer 9

Behaviour can be explained by the unconscious mind

Question 10

Unconscious- what is the conscious level?

Answer 10

Thoughts and perceptions

Question 11

Unconscious- what is our subconscious level?

Answer 11

Memories and stored knowledge

Question 12

Unconscious- what is our unconscious levels?

Answer 12

Fears, sexual desires, violent motives and irrational wishes

Question 13

Unconscious- what’s our unconscious mind?

Answer 13

Influences our behaviour
Conscious mind is unaware of thoughts and emotions occur in the unconscious
However these thoughts and feelings can have an effect of our conscious mind

Question 14

Unconscious- How can we access the unconscious mind?

Answer 14

Parapraxes- fraudulent slip
-Dream analysis e.g. losing teeth means fear of getting old
-Rorschach inkblot test
-Word association

Question 15

Unconscious- what are defence mechanism?

Answer 15

-Unconscious strategies that the ego uses to manage the conflict the id and the superego
-Freud believed if there was to much going on in the mind with conflict between the three person we may develop mental health issues
-Push desire or conflict out of consciousness thought or transfer it onto something safer

Question 16

Unconscious- what are our defence mechanisms?

Answer 16

-Repression
-Displacement
-Projection

Question 17

Unconscious- what is repression?

Answer 17

Unknowingly placing unpleasant memory in the unconsciousness
e.g. not remembering a traumatic incident in which you witness a crime

Question 18

Unconscious- what is displacement?

Answer 18

Redirecting unacceptable feelings from the original source to a safer, substitute target
e.g. taking your anger towards your boss out on your spouse or children by yelling at them and not your boss

Question 19

Unconscious- what is projection?

Answer 19

Attributing ones own unacceptable feelings and thoughts to others and not yourself
e.g. accusing your boyfriend of cheating on you as you’ve had thoughts about doing it to him
Having homophobic thoughts then accusing your friend of being homophobic

Question 20

What is assumption 3?

Answer 20

Behaviours influenced by childhood experiences?

Question 21

Childhood experiences- what does this mean?

Answer 21

Events in our childhood have influenced our adult life, shaping our personality, traumatic events that occur in childhood can be repressed and remain in the unconscious and can cause problems
-Stresses the importance of relationships with family’s
-Our childhood relationships will represent our adult ones (poor relationship with mother poor relationship with girls)

Question 22

Childhood experiences- what is the psychosexual development?

Answer 22

5 stages children go through
-id ego and superego develop through the stages
-Childs libido (sexual or psychic energy) is focused on a particular body part at each stage
-Adult personality’s can be shaped by fixation on these stages by getting no or too much fixation

Question 23

Childhood experiences- what are the 5 stages?

Answer 23

Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

Question 24

Childhood experiences- oral stage (age and focus of libido)?

Answer 24

Age: 0-18 months
Libido: mouth (sucking, chewing, swallowing or biting)

Question 25

Childhood experiences- anal stage (age and focus of libido)?

Answer 25

Age: 18 months- 3 years
Libido: Anus (withholding, expelling, playing with faeces and potty training)

Question 26

Childhood experiences- phallic stage (age and focus of libido)?

Answer 26

Age: 3-5 years
Libido: genitals (masturbation)
Oedipus and Alexa complex developed
Superegp

Question 27

Childhood experiences- latency stage (age and focus of libido?

Answer 27

Age: 5 years- puberty
Libido: little to no sexual motivation

Question 28

Childhood experiences- genital stage (age and focus of libido)?

Answer 28

Age: puberty- adolescence
Libido: heterosexual intercourse

Question 29

Childhood experiences- what is fixation and how can it occur?

Answer 29

Can occur at any time so will affect development
-Frustration: stage isn’t resolved as needs aren’t met so under satisfaction
-Overindulgence: needs of child have been more then satisfied so childs to comfortable to move onto next stage

Question 30

Childhood experiences- oedipus complex?

Answer 30

Male child has unrecognised feelings for mother, sons get jealous of father, resent him and do everything in their power to copy fathers mannerisms and ultimately get over feelings for mother and start being interested in other girls

Question 31

Childhood experiences- Electra complex?

Answer 31

Penis envy
Female child has feelings for father
Despises mum as she chopped her penis off
-Then copies mother as wants to get father
-Turns into mother and gets over feelings

Question 32

Childhood experiences- oral healthy development?

Answer 32

Gives us the ability we can’t exercise full control over the environment

Question 33

Childhood experiences- oral frustration?

Answer 33

Kept waiting for food, weaning too late
-Aggressive
-Pessimistic
-Envious
-Dominating

Question 34

Childhood experiences- oral overindulgence?

Answer 34

Fed as soon as they want
-Gullible
-Optimistic
-Dependant
-Trusting

Question 35

Childhood experiences- anal healthy development?

Answer 35

Egos developed
Gives ability to deal with authority assert our wishes and maintain balance between order and tolerant of mess

Question 36

Childhood experiences- anal frustration?

Answer 36

Anal retentive
-Orderly (very tidy)
-Stubborn
-Stingy
-Rigid
-Progressive

Question 37

Childhood experiences- overindulgence?

Answer 37

Anal expulsive
-Generous
-Messy
-Disorganised
-Rebellious
-Careless
-Horder

Question 38

Childhood experiences- phallic healthy development?

Answer 38

The conscious develops the same as same sex parents and tells us what’s right or wrong
Superego developed

Question 39

Childhood experiences- phallic frustration?

Answer 39

Parents that supress child risk a dominant superego
-guilt
-shame about sexuallity

Question 40

Childhood experiences- phallic overindulgence?

Answer 40

Sexual development is damaged
Overly sexually confidence (cocky)
May not have authoritative problems
Vain, self assured and impulsive

Question 41

Childhood experiences- latency healthy development?

Answer 41

Not importance
pause between psychosexual
ego, id and superego all developed