Freud

Question 1

Who did the study focus on?

Answer 1

Little Hans
5 year old with a phobia of horses

Question 2

What is meant by the term unconcious mind?

Answer 2

Part of the iceberg that is below the surface

Question 3

What are the psychosexual stages of development?

Answer 3

Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage

Question 4

What happens in the oral stage?

Answer 4

Children suck their thumbs or put things in their mouths

Question 5

What happens in the anal stage?

Answer 5

Children enjoy experimenting with toilet training

Question 6

What happens in the phallic stage?

Answer 6

A childs sexual identification is established

Question 7

What is the oedipus complex?

Answer 7

Boys desire their mothers
See their fathers as a rival
They fear their father will find out
They resolve this conflict when they identify with their father

Question 8

Define repression

Answer 8

When the ego blocks painful or disturbing memories from our conciousness

Question 9

Define displacement

Answer 9

Directing feelings from one object to another

Question 10

Define denial

Answer 10

Refusal to accept a painful event

Question 11

Define projection

Answer 11

Taking aspects of your personality you don’t like and believing other people have those aspects

Question 12

Define condensation

Answer 12

several ideas are combined into one symbol

Question 13

What was the aim of the study?

Answer 13

To record a case of the oedipus complex

Question 14

Describe little Hans

Answer 14

3 years old at the start of the study
Born in 1903
From Vienna Austria

Question 15

Describe little Hans

Answer 15

3 years old at the start of the study
Born in 1903
From Vienna Austria

Question 16

What type of study was this?

Answer 16

Longitudinal case study
Took place over three years and had one participant

Question 17

What was Hans fear of horses generalised to?

Answer 17

That a horse would bite of his penis

Question 18

How did little hans fears manifest?

Answer 18

Dreams and fantasies

Question 19

How did freud interperet Hans fear of horses?

Answer 19

A subconcious fear of his father because he was experiancing the oedipus complex

Question 20

Why was Freud fascinated with his ‘‘widdler’’ acording to freud?

Answer 20

He was in the phallic stage of psychosexual development

Question 21

How did freud explain Hans daydream about giraffes?

Answer 21

Giraffes symbolised his parents

Question 22

How did Freud explain Hans fantasy about becoming a father?

Answer 22

Little Hans was resolving the oedipus complex

Question 23

How did Freud explain Hans plumber fantasy?

Answer 23

Hans has identified with the aggressor - wants to be like his dad and have a bigger penis

Question 24

What type of data was collected?

Answer 24

Qualititative

Question 25

What is a strength of the data collected?

Answer 25

Rich in detail and provide reasoning behind behaviour

Question 26

What is a weakness of the data collected?

Answer 26

Can be hard to analyse due to all data being desscriptive. It is also difficult to identify trends