Chapter 2 - Freud

Question 0

What is the unconscious mind, according to Freud?

Answer 0

• repressed early childhood experiences
• phylogenetic endowment
• inaccessible by conscious mind

Question 1

What are three levels of mental life?

Answer 1

• unconscious
• preconscious
• conscious

Question 2

What is the preconscious mind?

Answer 2

• mediates between unconscious and conscious
• can have info from either
• conscious can draw info out of it

Question 3

What is the conscious mind, according to Freud?

Answer 3

• information from perceptual conscious (sensory input)
• information from preconscious
• sometimes menacing info from unconscious gets in by disguising itself

Question 4

What are the three provinces of the mind?

Answer 4

• id
• ego
• superego

Question 5

What is the id?

Answer 5

• core of personality
• completely unconscious
• serves pleasure principle
• primitive, chaotic, illogical, unchangeable, amoral

Question 6

What is the ego, according to Freud?

Answer 6

• only province of mind in contact w/ reality
• governed by reality principle
• can make decisions on any of the 3 levels of mental life (present in all 3)

Question 7

What is the superego?

Answer 7

• guided by moralistic & idealistic principles
• two subsystems:
  • conscience (what we should not do)
  • ego-ideal (what we should do)
• strives blindly toward perfection

Question 8

What are the dynamics of personality, according to Freud?

Answer 8

• what the personality does
• drives: constant motivational forces
• anxiety: unpleasant affective state; warns of impending danger

Question 9

What are the two main drives, according to Freud?

Answer 9

• sex: narcissism, love
• aggression: teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor, schaddenfreude
• sadism & masochism use both
• all drives have impetus, source, aim, & object

Question 10

What are the three types of anxiety, according to Freud?

Answer 10

• neurotic anxiety: apprehension about unknown danger; originates from id
• moral anxiety: conflict between ego & superego
• realistic anxiety: closely related to fear; vague unpleasant feeling involving a possible danger

Question 11

What are the right Freudian defense mechanisms?

Answer 11

• repression
• reaction formation (overcompensating)
• displacement (transference)
• fixation
• regression
• projection
• introjection
• sublimation

Question 12

What are Freud’s four stages of development?

Answer 12

- infantile period 
   • oral phase
   • anal phase
   • phallic phase 
- latency period
- genital period (puberty)
- maturity

Question 13

What two things did Freud believe were disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses?

Answer 13

• dreams

- Freudian slips