Definitions

Question 1

Conscious?

Answer 1

Contains info that we are aware of and have easy access to

Question 2

Pre-Conscious?

Answer 2

Holds onto info until it is decided if it is threatening to the conscious thought

Question 3

Unconscious?

Answer 3

Holds all the info that the conscious cannot deal with. We are not aware of the thoughts here as they are hidden and could be potentially destructive and often of a sexual or violent nature

Question 4

5 Psychosexual stages?

Answer 4

• Oral
• Anal
• Phallic
• Latency
• Genital

Question 5

Oral stage?

Answer 5

From birth toll around 15 months

-Focus of pleasure is on the mouth

Question 6

Anal stage?

Answer 6

From around 15 months to 3 years

-Gain pleasure from retaining or expelling faeces

Question 7

Phallic stage?

Answer 7

From around 3-5 years

• Pleasure on genitals
• where the Oedipus and Electra complex occur

Question 8

Latency stage?

Answer 8

From around 5 years to puberty

-sexual drives repressed

Question 9

Genital stage?

Answer 9

From puberty onwards

-sexual pleasure on genitals but this time shown through relationships with members of the opposite sex

Question 10

Defence mechanisms?

Answer 10

• Used to protect the ego from imaginary threat
• They can distort reality
• they are a way of avoiding unwanted info getting to ourselves or the outside world

Question 11

Repression?

Answer 11

an example of a defence mechanism that occurs when an individual keeps anxiety provoking thoughts out of their conscious awareness possibly as a way of coping