Freud Flashcards
Who did the study focus on?
Little Hans
5 year old with a phobia of horses
What is meant by the term unconcious mind?
Part of the iceberg that is below the surface
What are the psychosexual stages of development?
Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage
What happens in the oral stage?
Children suck their thumbs or put things in their mouths
What happens in the anal stage?
Children enjoy experimenting with toilet training
What happens in the phallic stage?
A childs sexual identification is established
What is the oedipus complex?
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
Define repression
When the ego blocks painful or disturbing memories from our conciousness
Define displacement
Directing feelings from one object to another
Define denial
Refusal to accept a painful event
Define projection
Taking aspects of your personality you don’t like and believing other people have those aspects
Define condensation
several ideas are combined into one symbol
What was the aim of the study?
To record a case of the oedipus complex
Describe little Hans
3 years old at the start of the study
Born in 1903
From Vienna Austria
Describe little Hans
3 years old at the start of the study
Born in 1903
From Vienna Austria
What type of study was this?
Longitudinal case study
Took place over three years and had one participant
What was Hans fear of horses generalised to?
That a horse would bite of his penis
How did little hans fears manifest?
Dreams and fantasies
How did freud interperet Hans fear of horses?
A subconcious fear of his father because he was experiancing the oedipus complex
Why was Hans fascinated with his ‘‘widdler’’ acording to freud?
He was in the phallic stage of psychosexual development
How did freud explain Hans daydream about giraffes?
Giraffes symbolised his parents
How did Freud explain Hans fantasy about becoming a father?
Little Hans was resolving the oedipus complex
How did Freud explain Hans plumber fantasy?
Hans has identified with the aggressor - wants to be like his dad and have a bigger penis
What type of data was collected?
Qualititative
What is a strength of the data collected?
Rich in detail and provide reasoning behind behaviour
What is a weakness of the data collected?
Can be hard to analyse due to all data being desscriptive. It is also difficult to identify trends
