Freud Flashcards
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Sigmund Freud(1856 - 1939)
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An influential psychoanalytic, who was ambitious, famous, but disliked by many
2
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Unconscious motivations
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Unconscious reasons for feelings and actions
3
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Unconscious dynamics
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Conflict between different systems in the brain leading to dreams, jokes, speech errors, et’c
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Id
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Present at birth, animalistic, operates by pleasure, doesn’t understand the difference between reality & fantasy
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Ego
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Develops out of the id in infancy, understands reality & logic mediator between id and superego
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Superego
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internalization of society’s moral standards, responsible for guilt
7
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Falsifiability
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The ability to proven something wrong(science)
