Chapter 2. Freud: Psychoanalysis Flashcards

1
Q

Freud called his theory and associated techniques ________.

A

psychoanalysis

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2
Q

Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective proposed that ________ and ________ influence personality.

A

childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations

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3
Q

It is when the patient is asked to relax and say whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing or trivial.

A

free association

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4
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3 levels of mental life

A
  1. unconscious
  2. preconscious
  3. conscious
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5
Q

Early childhood experiences that create high levels of anxiety are repressed into the _________.

A

unconscious

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6
Q

Events that are not associated with anxiety but are merely forgotten make up the contents of the ________.

A

preconscious

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7
Q

________ images are those in awareness at any given time.

A

Conscious

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8
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3 provinces of the mind

A

id, ego, and superego

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9
Q

The id is unconscious, chaotic, out of contact with reality, and in service of the _________.

A

pleasure principle

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10
Q

The ego is the executive of personality, in contact with the real world, and in service of the ________.

A

reality principle

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11
Q

The superego serves the ______ and _________.

A

moral and idealistic principles

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12
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Aka impulse; a stimulus within an individual.

A

drives

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13
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2 drives according to Freud;

A
  1. Sex or libido

2. Aggression

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14
Q

It is a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensationthat warns the person against impending danger.

A

Anxiety

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15
Q

What is apprehension about an unknown danger and stems from the ego’s relation with the id?

A

Neurotic anxiety

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16
Q

This is similar to guilt and results from the ego’s relation with the superego

A

Moral anxiety

17
Q

What is similar to fear and is produced by the ego’s relation with the real world?

A

Realistic anxiety

18
Q

These are tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety in various ways, but always by distorting reality.

A

defense mechanism

19
Q

A defense mechanism that
pushes threatening thoughts
into the unconscious.

A

repression

20
Q
A defense mechanism that
pushes away threatening
impulses by overemphasizing
the opposite in one’s thoughts
and words.
A

reaction formation

21
Q

A defense mechanism in
which one refuses to
acknowledge anxiety
provoking stimuli.

A

denial

22
Q

Defense mechanism in which
anxiety arousing impulse are
externalized by placing onto
others.

A

projection

23
Q

Defense mechanism in which the
target of one’s unconscious fear or
desire is shifted away from true
cause.

A

displacement

24
Q

Defense mechanism where
dangerous urges are transformed
into positive, socially acceptable
forms.

A

sublimation

25
Q

Defense mechanism where one
returns to a earlier, safer stage of
one’s life to escape present
threats.

A

regression

26
Q
Defense mechanism where
after the fact (post hoc) logical
explanations for behaviors that
were actually driven by
internal unconscious motives.
A

rationalization

27
Q

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

A
  1. Oral (0-18 months)
  2. Anal (18-36 months)
  3. Phallic (3-6 years)
  4. Latency (6 to puberty)
  5. Genital (puberty on)
28
Q

A child desires sexual union with one parent while harboring hostility for the other.

A

Oedipus complex (electra complex: girls)

29
Q

Freud believed that _______ and ___________are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.

A

dreams and slips of the tongue