Freud, Maslow & Eysenck

Question 1

What did Freud believe in?

Answer 1

That the events in our childhood can have a significant impact on our adulthood.

Question 2

Define id -

Answer 2

Is the primitive part of our make up and works on the basis of maximising pleasure (pleasure principle).

Question 3

Define ego -

Answer 3

Develops at a young child learns to cope with the real world. It is the regulator and sets the standards for behaviours (reality principle).

Question 4

Define superego -

Answer 4

Emerges perfectionists part of us leading to positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt (identification).

Question 5

Psychosexual development, oral stage -

Answer 5

-18 months to 2 years.
-Infant is satisfied orally by sucking, chewing and feeding.

Question 6

Psychosexual development, anal stage -

Answer 6

-18 months to 3 years.
-Infant is satisfied anally by expelling and withholding faces.

Question 7

Psychosexual development, phallic stage -

Answer 7

-3 and 5 years.
-Childs genitals are a source of satisfaction and self-soothing.

Question 8

Psychosexual development, latency stage -

Answer 8

-5 and 11 years.
-The child’s energies are displaced away from their own body as they study and socialise with peers.

Question 9

Psychosexual development, genital stage -

Answer 9

-Begins at puberty, 11 years and throughout adulthood.
-The genitals are a source of libidinous satisfaction and pleasure.

Question 10

What Happens if You Get too Much of one Stage or Not Enough.

Answer 10

Get a fixation which can last all throughout adulthood.

Question 11

Freuds Defence Mechanisms

Answer 11

Denial - denying something exists.
Repression - unconsciously keeping unpleasant information from your conscious mind.
Suppression - consciously keeping unpleasant information from your conscious mind.
Sublimation - converting unacceptable impulses into more acceptable outlets.
Projection - assigning your own unacceptable feelings or qualities to others.
Intellection - thinking about stressful things in a clinical way.
Rationalisation - justifying an unacceptable feeling or behaviour with logic.
Regression - reverting to earlier behaviours.
Reaction formation - replacing an unwanted impulse with its opposite.

Question 12

What is Eysenck’s Theory?

Answer 12

He proposed the extraversion–introversion dimension.

Question 13

4 Types of Introvert and Extrovert

Answer 13

-Stable introverted (phlegmatic).
-Unstable introverted (melancholic).
-Stable extroverted (sanguine).
-Unstable extroverted (choleric).

Question 14

Eysenck Personality Types

Answer 14

1. Extraversion.
2. Neuroticism.
3. Psychoticism.

Question 15

What Psychological Approach did Maslow Propose?

Answer 15

Humanistic approach.

Question 16

Hierarchy Needs

Answer 16

Based on how humans are inspired to satisfy their needs by using fire categories of human needs to dictate an individuals behaviour.