BEHAVIOUR CAN BE INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 1

what is the conscious mind (top of the iceberg)
explain part

Answer 1

What we’re currently aware of
Rational and logical thought + perception

Question 2

what is the preconscious mind (middle of the
iceberg)-explain part

Answer 2

What we could be conscious of if we thought about it
Memories, knowledge e.g. 10th birthday party

Question 3

what is the unconscious mind (bottom of the
iceberg)-explain part

Answer 3

Thoughts and feelings that are inaccessible
Unacceptable desires, violent urges, immoral thoughts can only come out in dreams where forgotten memories of personality forming experiences are held

Question 4

what did freud believe about the unconscious mind
explain part

Answer 4

that the unconscious mind contains unresolved conflicts that have a powerful effect on our behaviour and experience
but these are so threatening they appear only in dreams/fantasies disguised in symbols.

Question 5

what is an example of this in psychology
-example part

Answer 5

ego defence mechanisms

Question 6

what is an ego defence mechanism-explain part

Answer 6

Conflicts between the id, ego and superego create anxiety. The
ego protects itself with various ego defences.

Question 7

what is an example of an ego defence mechanism
-explain part

Answer 7

a boy
who cannot deal with what he perceives to be maternal rejection
when a baby brother is born, may regress to an earlier
developmental stage, soiling his clothes and becoming helpless.
Other examples of defence mechanisms include displacement
(transferring impulses from one person/object to another)

Question 8

starting sentence for this paragraph

Answer 8

one assumption of the psychodynamic approach is that behaviour is influenced by the unconscious
mind.