Chapter 2 T/F Flashcards
Psychoanalytic doctrine is based in part on Freud’s analysis of his own dreams.
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Freud regarded himself mostly as a philosopher.
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Freud’s data were based mostly on experimental investigation.
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Freud’s lifelong friendship with Carl Jung greatly influenced the final shape of psychoanalysis.
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Unlike many of his other theories, Freud’s famous seduction theory was one he never changed.
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Freud believed that people are motivated mostly by unconscious urges.
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Ideas that are not conscious but that can become so quite easily are said by Freud to belong to the preconscious.
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The superego serves the idealistic and moralistic principles.
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Psychoanalysis rests on two great instincts or drives: sex and hunger.
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The aim of an instinct is to seek pleasure
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Neurotic anxiety stems from the ego’s dependence on the id.
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Defense mechanisms defend the id against anxiety
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Repressions are the most basic of the defense mechanisms because they underlie all other defense mechanisms.
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The permanent attachment of libido onto an earlier stage of development best describes the defense mechanism of fixation
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Sublimations often benefit society.
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The principal source of frustration during the oral period is weaning.
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For boys, the Oedipus complex occurs prior to the castration complex.
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For girls, the Oedipus complex occurs prior to the castration complex.
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During the 1880’s, Freud’s practice of psychotherapy was much more passive than it would become decades later.
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Freud’s theory rates high on falsifiability
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