Chapter 11: neo-freudian thought

Question 1

neo-freudian psychology

Answer 1

a general term for the psychoanalytically oriented work of many theorists and researchers who are influenced by Freud’s theory

Question 2

common themes of neo-freudian thought

Answer 2

1. sex is less important; libido=motivation toward life and creativity
2. less emphasis on unconscious, more on conscious thought
3. less on instinctual drives and mental life as the source of psychological difficulties, and more on interpersonal relationships

Question 3

ego psychology

Answer 3

modern school of psychological thought that believes the most important aspect of mental functioning is the way the ego mediates between and formulated
compromises among the impulses of the ID and superego

Question 4

organ inferiority

Answer 4

idea that people are motivated to succeed in adulthood in order to compensate for whatever they felt, in childhood, was their weakest aspect

Question 5

masculine protest

Answer 5

idea that a particular urge in adulthood is an attempt to compensate for ones powerlessness felt in childhood

Question 6

adler

Answer 6

inferiority and compensation

Question 7

jung

Answer 7

was into mystical and spiritual matters which freud did not like

Question 8

collective unconscious

Answer 8

the proposition that all people share certain unconscious ideas because of the history of the human species

Question 9

archetypes

Answer 9

the fundamental images of people that are contained in the collective unconscious, including “the earth mother” “the hero” “the devil” “the supreme being”

Question 10

persona

Answer 10

social mask one wears in public

Question 11

anima

Answer 11

the idea, or prototype, of the female, as held in the mind of a male

Question 12

animus

Answer 12

idealized image of the male as held in the mind of the female

Question 13

four basic ways of thinking (jung)

Answer 13

1. rational
2. feeling
3. sensing
4. intuiting

Question 14

horney

Answer 14

-disagreed of portrayal of women as obsessed by “penis envy” and desire to be male
-adult behavior is based on efforts to overcome anxiety acquired in childhood

Question 15

neurotic needs

Answer 15

needs that people feel but that are neither realistic nor truly desirable

Question 16

erikson

Answer 16

psychosocial development

Question 17

psychosocial development

Answer 17

1. trust vs. mistrusts
2. autonomy vs. shame and disgust
3. initiative vs guilt
4. industry vs. inferiority
5. identity vs. identity confusion
6. intimacy vs. isolation
7. generativity vs. stagnation
8. integrity vs. despair

Question 18

object relations theory

Answer 18

the psychoanalytic study of interpersonal relations including the unconscious images and feelings associated with the important people (objects) in a persons life

Question 19

4 themes of object relations theory

Answer 19

1. every relationship has elements of satisfaction and frustration or pleasure and pain
2. mix of love and hate
3. distinction between the parts of the love object and the whole person
4. the psyche of the baby (and adult) is aware of and disturbed by these contradictory feelings

Question 20

paranoid position

Answer 20

children wish to destroy the bad part because they fear being destroyed by it

Question 21

depressive position

Answer 21

wish to worship and protect the good part because they fear losing it

Question 22

false self

Answer 22

children- and later, adults - learn to put on to please other people

Question 23

tachistoscope

Answer 23

testing if the unconscious mind picks up on words faster than conscious mind

Question 24

paul meehl

Answer 24

thought it was important to be psychoanalyzed and to analyze others

Question 25

behaviorist approach

Answer 25

theoretical view of personality that focuses on overt behavior and the ways in which it can be affected by rewards and punishments in the environment

Question 26

shortcomings in behaviorism

Answer 26

• ignores thinking, motivation, and emotion
  -based on research using animals
  -ignores the social dimension of learning
  -treats the animal or person as essentially passive

Question 27

attachment theory

Answer 27

psychoanalytic thought to describe the development and importance of human attachments to emotionally significant other people
- focuses on patterns of relationships with others that are consistently repeated with different partners