Exam 1 txtbk - ch 2 Flashcards
Freud caalled cocaine a … and claimed it eased his … and …
miracle drug;
depression;
chronic indigestion
freud established practice as a … in 1881 and began his exploration of the personalities of people suffering from … disorders.
he studied several months in Paris with the psychiatrist Jean Martin Charcot, a pioneer in the use of …, who alerted Freud to the possible sexual basis of neurosis
clinical neurologist;
emotional;
hypnosis
Freud believed that it was … that caused neurotic behavior in adulthood
early sexual traumas
Freud concluded that the faantasis his patienst described about sexual traumas were real to them. They believed that the shocking sexual events had actually happened. Bc the fantasies still focused on sex, then sex remained the cause of …
adult neuroses
it has been suggested that Freud changed his position ont he seduction theory bc he realized that if sexual abuse was so widespread, then many fathers would be considered suspect of … against their …
perverse acts;
children
Freud’s attitude twoard sex was negative.
he wrote about the dangers of sex, even for those who were not … and urged people to rise above what he called the … for sex
neurotic;
common animal need
Freud diagnosed himself with … and … - a neurotic condition characterized by weakness, worry, and disturbances of … and …
anxiety neurosis;
neurasthenia;
digestion;
circulation
Freud traced both of his disturbances to an accumulation of … In his writings, he proposed that neurasthenia in men resulted from …, and anxiety neurosis arose from … such as … and …
sexual tension;
masturbation;
abnormal sexual practices;
coitus interruptus (contraception);
abstinence
Freud psychoanalyzed himself through the study of …, a process he continued for the rest of his life
his own dreams
Freud’s disciples included … and …, who later broke with Freud to develop their own theories
Carl Jung;
Alfred Adler
Freud’s system of psychoanalysis was warmly welcomed in the US. Two years after his visit, American followers founded the … and the …
American Psychoanalytic Association;
New York Psychoanalytic Society
Freud wrote that instincts were the basic elements of the personality, the … forces that drive behavior and determine its …
Instincts are a form of … - transformed … - thaat connects the … of the body with the .. .of the mind
motivating;
direction;
energy;
physiological energy;
needs;
wishes
the stimuli for instincts - hunger and thirst, for example - are …
When a need such as hunger is aroused in the body, it generates a state of … or … The mind transforms this into a … It is this - the mental representation of the physiological need- that is the instinct or driving force that motivates the person to behave in a way that satisfies the need
internal;
physiological excitation;
energy;
wish
When the body is in such a state of need, the person experiences a feeling of … or … The aim of an instinct is to … and thereby …
tension;
pressure;
satisfy the need;
reduce the tension
Freud’s theory about instincts is a … approach, meaning that we are motivated to restore and maintain a condition of …, or …, to keep the body free of tension.
Freud believed that we always experience a certain level or amount of instinctual tension and that we must continually …
homeostatic;
physiological equilibrium; balance;
act to reduce it
Freud believed that psychic energy could be displaced to … and this displacement was of primary importance in determining an individual’s personality.
All the …, …, and … we display as adults were believed by Freud to be displacements of energy from the original objects that satisfied the instinctual needs
substitute objects;
interests; preferences; attitudes
The life instincts serve the purpose of … of the individual and the species by seeking to satisfy the needs for food, water, air and sex.
The life instincts are oriented toward … and …
survival;
growth;
development
The psychic energy manifested by the life instincts is the …, which can be attached to/invested in objects, a concept Freud called …
libido;
cathexis
The life instinct Freud considered most important for the personality is …, which he defined in broad terms. He was not referring exclusively to the …, but also included almost all … behaviors and thoughts
sex;
erotic;
pleasurable
According to Freud, erotic wishes arise from the body’s erogenous zones; the …, … and …
He suggested that people are predominantly … beings, and much of his personality theory revolves around the necessity of … or … our sexual longings
mouth;
anus;
sex organs;
pleasure-seeking;
inhibiting;
suppressing
in opposition to the life instincts, Freud postulated the destructive/death instincts. He stated that all living things decy and die, and believed that people have an unconscious wish to die.
One component of the death instincts is the …, which he saw as the wish to die turned against objects other than the self. This drive compels us to …, … and …
aggressive drive;
destroy;
conquer;
kill
The conscious, as Freud defined the term, corresponds to its ordinary everyday meaning. It includes all the … and … of which we are aware at any given moment.
Freud considerd the conscious to be a limited aspect of personality bc only … of our thoughts, sensations and memories exists in conscious awareness at any one time.
sensations;
experiences;
a small portion
The vast, dark depths of the unconscious are the home of the …, those wishes and desires that direct our behavior. The unconscious contains the … behind all behaviors and is the repository of forces we cannot see/control
instincts;
major driving power
The preconscious is the storehouse of all our …, … and… of which we are not consciously aware at the moment but that we can easily summon into consciousness
memories; perceptions; thoughts
The id corresponds to Freud’s earlier notion of the … (although the ego and superego have … aspects as well). The id is the reservoir for the … and … (the psychic energy manifested by the instincts). the id is a powerful structure of the personality bc it supplies all the energy for the other two components.
unconscious;
unconscious;
instincts;
libido
Because the id is the reservoir of the instincts, it is vitally and directly related to the … of …
Id operates in accordance with the … -> through its concern with tension reduction, the id functions to … and …
satisfaction; bodily needs;
increase pleasure;
avoid pain
The only ways the id can attempt to satisfy its needs are through … and … or … experience, which Freud labeled … thought
reflex action;
wish-fulfilling hallucinatory; fantasy;
primary-process thought
The growing child is taught to deal intelligently and rationally with other people and the outside world and to develop the powers of …, …, … and … - the powers adults use to satisfy their needs. Freuds called these abilities … thought
perception;
recognition;
judgment;
memory;
secondary-process
Ego is the .. of the personality. Its purpose is not to thwart the impulses of the id but to help the id obtain the … it craves.
It determines … and … times, places, and objects that will satisfy the id impulses.
rational master;
tension reduction;
appropriate; socially acceptable
The ego does not prevent id satisfaction. Rather, it tries to .., …, or … it in order to meet the demands of reality. It perceives and manipulates the environment in a practicle and realistic manner and os is said to operate in accordance with the …
postpone;
delay;
redirect;
reality principle
the ego is never … of the id, according to Freud. It is always responsive to … and derives its power and energy from the id
independent;
the id’s demands
The … and … function of the ego must be exercised constantly. If not the id impulses might come to … and … the rational ego
controlling;
postponing;
dominate;
overthrow
Superego
- Freud believed that this moral side of the personality is usually learned by the age of … and consists initially of the … of … set down by our …
5 or 6;
rules of conduct; parents
Superego:
- Those behaviors for which children are punished form the …, one part of the superego.
- The second part of the superego is the …, which consists of good, or correct, behaviors for which children have been praised
conscience;
ego-ideal
Superego:
- Its purpose is not merely to postpone the pleasure seeking demands of the id, as the ego does, but to ..,. particularly those demands concerned with … and …
inhibit them completely;
sex;
aggression
Superego strives solely for …
The ego is pressured by three dangers: …, … and the … The result of this friction, when the ego is too severely strained, is the development of …
perfection;
id;
reality;
superego;
anxiety
Freud described anxiety as an …
Freud made anxiety an important part of his personality theory, asserting that it is fundamental to the development of all … and … behavior. He suggested that the prototype of all anxiety is the …
objectless fear;
neurotic; psychotic;
birth trauma
When we cannot cope with anxiety, when we are in danger of being overwhelmed by it, the anxiety is said to be … What Freud meant by this is that the person, regardless of age, is reduced to a state of … like that experienced in …
traumatic;
helplessness;
infancy
In adult life, … is reenacted to some degree whenever the ego is threatened. Freud proposed three different types of anxiety: … anxiety, … anxiety, and … anxiety
infantile helplessness;
reality;
neurotic;
moral
The first type of anxiety, from which all others are derived, is reality anxiety (or … anxiety).
- involves a fear of … in the real world
- serves the positive purpose of guiding our behavior to … or … ourselves from actual dangers.
- OUr fear subsides when the threat is …
objective;
real dangers;
escape;
protect;
no longer present
neurotic anxiety has its basis in …, in a conflict between … and …
- children are often punished for overtly expressing sexual/aggressive impulses. Therefore, the wish to … generates anxiety
childhood;
instinctual gratification;
reality;
gratify certain id impulses
This neurotic anxiety is an unconscious fear of being … for impulsively displaying id-dominated behavior. The fear is not of the instincts themselves, but of … as a result of gratifying the instincts. The conflict becomes one between the … and … and its origin has some basis in reality
punished;
what might happen;
id;
ego
Moral anxiety results from a conflict between the … and the …
- it is a fear of one’s …
- when you are motivated to express an insinctual impulse that is contrary to your moral code, your superego retaliates by causing you to feel … or …
- Moral anxiety is a function of how … the superego si
id; superego;
conscience;
shame;
guilt;
well developed
anxiety serves as a warning ot the person that something is amiss within the personality. Anxiety induces … in the organism and thus becomes a … that the individual is motivated to satisfy. The tension must be …
tension;
drive;
reduced
anxiety alerts the individual that the ego is being … and that unless action is taken, the ego might be …
threatened;
overthrown
all behaviors are motivated by instincts; similarly, all behaviors are defensive in the sense of …
the intensity of the battle within the personality may fluctuate, but it never stops. Freud postulated severaal … and noted that we rarely use just one; we typically defend ourselves against anxiety by using several at the same time
defending against anxiety;
defense mechanisms
all defense mechanisms share two characteristics:
- they are all … or … of reality - necessary ones, though
- they all operate …
we are … of them, which means that on the conscious level we hold … or … images of our world and ourselves
denials;
distortions;
unconsciously;
unaware;
distorted; unreal
Repression is an involuntary removal of something from …
Repression can operate on … of situations or people, on our … of the present (so that we may fail to see some obviously disturbing event right in front of us), and even on the body’s …
conscious awareness;
memories;
perceptions;
physiological functioning
Once repression is operating, it is difficult to …
bc we use repression to protect ourselves from danger, in order to remove it, we would have to realize that the idea/memory is no longer …- which is hard to do bc that idea/memory is not in our conscious awareness
eliminate;
dangerous
denial is related to … and involves denying the existence of some … or … that has occurred
repression;
external threat;
traumatic event
in reaction formation, we defend ourselves against a disturbing impulse by actively …
expressing the opposite impulse
another way of defending against disturbing impulses is to … This defense mechanism is called projection
project them onto someone else
In regression, the person retreats/regresses to an … that was more pleasant and free of the current level of frustration/anxiety.
Regression usually involves a return to one of the stages of … The individual returns to this more … time of life by behaving as they did at the time, such as being childish/dependent
earlier period of life;
childhood development;
secure
Rationalization is a defnse mechanism that involves … our behavior to make it seem more … and therefore more …
reinterpreting;
rational;
acceptable
if an object that satisfies an id impulse is not available, the person may shift the impulse to … This is known as displacement.
however that sub will not reduce the tension as … as the original object would. if you are involved in a number of displacements, a reservoir of … accumulates, and you will be increasingly driven to find new ways of reducing that tension
another object;
satisfactorily;
undischarged tension
when displacement involves finding a substitute object to satisfy id impulses, sublimination involves … The instinctual energy is thus diverted into other channels of expression, ones that society considers … and …
altering the id impulses themselves;
acceptable; admirable
Freud believed that a variety of human activities, particularly those of an … nature, are manifestations of id impules that have been redicrected to socially acceptable outlets. As with … (of which sublimation is a form), sublimation is a compromise. As such, it does not bring total satisfaction but leads to a …
artistic;
displacement;
buildup of undischarged tension
When the defenses fail, we are stricken with overwhelming aniety. We feel dismal, worthless, and depressed. Unless the defenses are restored, or new ones formed to take their place, we are likely to develop .. or … symptoms. Thus, according to Freud, defenses are …
neurotic; psychotic;
necessary to our mental health
All of us are driven by the same id impulses, but there is not the same universality in the nature of the ego and superego. Althought hese structures of the personality perform the same functions for everyone, their content varies from one person to another, bc they are formed from …
experience
Freud argued that a person’s unique character type develops in …, largely from …
The chidl constantly tries to maximize pleasure by satisfying id demands, while parents, as reps of society, try to impose the demands of reality and morality. So important did Freud consider childhood experiences that he said the adult personality was firmly shaped and crystallized by the age of …
childhood;
parent-child interactions;
5
Sometimes a person is reluctant or unable to move from one psychosexual stage to the next bc the conflict …, or bc the needs have been so … by an … parent that the child doesn’t want to move on. In either case, the individual is saaid to be … at this stage of development
has not been resolved;
supremely satisfied;
indulgent;
fixated
In fixation, a portion of libido or psychic energy remains …, leaving … for the following stages
invested in that developmental stage;
less energy
Freud believed that the infant is driven to obtain a diffuse form of bodily pleasure deriving from the …, …, and …, the erogenous zones that define the stages of development during the first 5 years of life
mouth;
anus;
genitals
the oral stage, the first stage fo psychosexual development, lasts from birth until some time during the second year. During this period, the infant’s principal source of pleasure is the …
The infant derives pleasure from …, … and …
mouth;
sucking;
biting;
swallowing
Oral stage:
- During this stage, the infant is totally dependent on the … or … who becoems the primary object of the child’s libido
- How the mother responds to the infant’s demands, which at this time are solely … demands, determines the nature of the baby’s small world. The infant learns from the mother to perceive the world as either good/bad, satsifying/frustrating, safe/perilous place to be
mother;
caregiver;
id
Oral stage:
- There are two ways of behaving during this stage: … behavior (…) and … or … behavior (…)
oral incorporative;
taking in;
oral aggressive; oral sadistic;
biting/spitting out
Oral stage:
- The oral incorporative mode occurs … and involves the pleasurable stimulation of the mouth by … and by … Adults fixated at this stage become excessively concerned with oral activites, like …, …, …, and …
first;
other people;
food;
eating;
drinking;
smoking;
kissing
Oral stage:
- if, as infants, they were excessively gratified in oral incorporative stage, their adult oral personality will be predisposed to a high degree of … and …
- they continue to … and … to gratify their needs
optimism; dependency;
depend on; expect others
Oral stage:
- people fixated in oral incorporative become overly …, … everything they’re told, and … other people inordinatley
- they are labeled … personality types
gullible;
believe;
trust;
oral passive
Oral stage:
- the second oral behavior, oral aggressive/oral sadistic, occurs during the …, … of … As a result of this experience, infants come to view the mother with … as well as …
painful; frustrating eruption of teeth;
hatred; love