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CHAPTER 2: Sigmund Freud Flashcards

1
Q

Human personality and behavior are
powerfully shaped by ______ relationships.

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Early Childhood

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They believed that humans are
primarily ______ creatures dominates by sexual and aggressive impulses.

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Pleasure-seeking

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What are the different levels of mental life?

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  • Unconscious
  • Pre-conscious
  • Conscious
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4
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Contains drives, urges, and instincts beyond awareness. It
is also the reason behind dreams, slips, and certain kinds
of forgetting (repression).

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Unconscious

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Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can
become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

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Pre- Conscious

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Those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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Conscious

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Inherited Experience that lies on individual’s personal experiences (Unconscious Images)

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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Name two sources of the the Pre-conscious.

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  • Conscious Perception
  • Unconscious
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Name two direction of the conscious.

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  • Perceptual Conscious System
  • Within mental structure and the preconscious
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10
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What are the three provinces of the mind?

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  • ID (The “It”)
  • Ego (The “I”)
  • Superego (The “Above I”
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This province of mind is:

-Unrealistic
-Serves the pleasure principle
-Amoral

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ID (The “It”)

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12
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This province of mind is:

-Reality Principle
-Decision-making or executive branch of personality

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Ego (The “I”)

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This province of mind is:

-Moralistic and idealistic principle
-Unrealistic in its demand for perfection

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Superego (The “Above I”)

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What are the subsystem of the Superego “Above I”?

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-The conscience
-Ego-ideal

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15
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Every basic drive is characterized by an
______, a source, an aim, and an object.

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Impetus

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16
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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

Grouped into two major headings:

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Sex and Aggression

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17
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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

What are the aim of sexual drive?

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-Primary Narcissism
-Sadism
-Masochism

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18
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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

The Aim of this destructive drive is to return the
organism to an inorganic state
Flexible and can take many forms.

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Aggression

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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

It warns us against impeding danger

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Anxiety

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What are the two dynamics of personality?

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-Aggression
-Anxiety

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21
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Three forms of Anxiety.

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-Neurotic
-Moral
-Realistic

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Fear that one’s inner impulses cannot
be controlled

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Neurotic

23
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Fear of violating moral or societal codes

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Moral

24
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Tangible fears/ dangers

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Realistic

25
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DEFENSE
MECHANISMS

Blocking a wish or desire from the conscious
expression

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Repression

26
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Expressing an impulse by its opposite

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Reaction Formation

27
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object

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Displacement

28
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Returning to an earlier form of expressing an impulse

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Regression

29
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Attributing an unconscious impulse, attitude, or behavior to another

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Projection

30
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Incorporating positive qualities of another person into own ego

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Introjection

31
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Rechanneling an impulse into a more socially desirable outlet

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Sublimation

32
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Refusing to accept an unpleasant reality

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Denial

33
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Dealing with an emotion intellectually to avoid emotional concern

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Rationalization

34
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

Modelling one’s behavior after the behavior of someone else

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Identification

35
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Which Psychosexual stage is a period of pre-genital sexual development during the first 4 or 5 years after birth ?

A

Infantile Period

35
Q

State the 5 psychosexual stages of development

A

-Oral
-Anal
-Phallic
-Latency
-Genital

36
Q

Mouth is the first organ to provide an infant with pleasure.

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Oral Phase

36
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When excessive they become orderly, organized, and tidy.

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Anal Phase

37
Q

A time when the genital area becomes the leading erogenous zone.

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Phallic Stage

37
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Sexual Attraction towards the opposite sex of the parent

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Oedipus Complex

38
Q

Preceding the phallic stage an infant boy forms an IDENTIFICATION with his father: That he wants to be his father

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Male Oedipus Complex

38
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from the 4th until 5th year until puberty both boys and girls usually but not always go through dormant psychosexual development

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Latency Period

39
Q

The awakening of sexual aim and the beginning of the _____ during puberty sexual life diphasic sexual life of a person enters a second phase which has basic difference from infantile period

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Genital Period

39
Q

What is the “Royal road to the unconscious”?

A

Dreams

40
Q

Freud used _____ to transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content.

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Dream Analysis

40
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The basic assumption of Freud’s dream analysis is that nearly all dreams are ______

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Wish Fulfillment

41
Q

What the dreamer sees and remembers

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Manifest Content

42
Q

The meaning of the manifest content, what is the
unconscious interpretation of the said dream.

A

Latent Content

43
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY wherein
A subject is presented with ambiguous stimuli and asks the person to respond with a
story, the identification of objects or perhaps a drawing.

A

Projective Test

43
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY wherein you spend a few minutes to clear your mind of thoughts. Then allow whatever comes
into your mind to enter.

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Free Association

43
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Commonly called slips of the tongue or pen, misreading, incorrect
hearing, misplacing objects, and temporarily forgetting names or extensions that are
not chance accidents but reveal a person’s unconscious intentions.

A

Freudian Slips (Parapraxes)

43
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Early experiences with ______ helped Freud to understand that there was more to the
human mind than what one can bring into awareness.

A

Hypnosis

43
Q

APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Repressed in a person’s
mind, examine what he or she finds humorous.

A

Humor

43
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Many of our daily behaviors be
taken as __________ of these unconscious thoughts.

A

Symbolic Gestures

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