Freud: Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Twin cornerstone of psychoanalysis.

Answer 1

Sex and Aggression

Question 2

This level contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions.

Answer 2

Unconscious

Question 3

Freud believed that a portion of our unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations of repetition. This inherited unconscious image in psychoanalysis is called?

Answer 3

Phylogenetic endowment

Question 4

The level of the mind contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

Answer 4

Preconscious

Question 5

Freud felt that its existence is the explanation for the meaning behind dreams, slips of the tongue, and certain kinds of forgetting, called repression.

Answer 5

Unconscious

Question 6

Freud emphasized that it is a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger.

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Anxiety

Question 7

It plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory, can be defined as those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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Conscious

Question 8

The anxiety that stems from the conflict between the

ego and the superego.

Answer 8

Moral anxiety

Question 9

It is an anxiety that exists in the ego, but it originates from id impulses. These feelings of hostility are often
accompanied by fear of punishment.

Answer 9

Neurotic anxiety

Question 10

It is largely free from anxiety and in reality, is much more similar to the conscious images than to unconscious urges.

Answer 10

Preconscious

Question 11

It is an unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger. It is different from fear in that it does not involve a specific fearful object.

Answer 11

Realistic Anxiety

Question 12

The ego’s purpose to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive implosives and to defend itself against the anxiety that accompanies them.

Answer 12

Defense mechanisms

Question 13

It is defined as apprehension about an unknown danger.

Answer 13

Neurotic anxiety

Question 14

The most basic defense mechanism. Whenever the ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protects itself by repressing those impulses; that is, it forces threatening feelings into the unconscious.

Answer 14

Repression.

Question 15

One of the ways in which a repressed impulse may become conscious is through adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form.

Answer 15

Reaction Formation

Question 16

It may be disguised as physical symptoms, for example, sexual impotency in a man troubled by sexual guilt. The impotency prevents the man from having to deal with the guilt and anxiety that would result from normal enjoyable sexual activity. It may also find an outlet in dreams, slips of the tongue, or one of the other defense mechanisms.

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Repressed drives

Question 17

People can redirect their unacceptable urges onto a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse
is disguised or concealed.

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Displacement

Question 18

It is the permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier, more primitive stage of development

Answer 18

Fixation

Question 19

Once the libido has passed a developmental stage, it may, during times of stress and anxiety, revert back to that earlier stage.

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Regression

Question 20

When an internal impulse provokes too much anxiety, the ego may reduce that anxiety by attributing the unwanted impulse to an external object, usually another person.

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Projection

Question 21

People incorporate positive qualities

of another person into their own ego.

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Introjection

Question 22

A young woman who deeply resents and hates her mother. Because she knows that society demands affection toward parents, such conscious hatred for her mother would produce too much anxiety. To avoid painful anxiety, the young woman concentrates on the opposite impulse—love. What kind of defense mechanism is this?

Answer 22

Reaction Formation

Question 23

it is the repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim.

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Sublimation

Question 24

It is a defense mechanism that sees in others the unacceptable feelings or tendencies that actually reside in one’s own unconscious

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Projection

Question 25

It is the repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim. What type of defense mechanism is this?

Answer 25

Sublimation

Question 26

Is a set up by the ego to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive impulses and to defend itself against the anxiety that accompanies them.

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Defense mechanism

Question 27

Is a set up by the ego to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive impulses and to defend itself against the anxiety that accompanies them.

Answer 27

Defense mechanism

Question 28

Cornerstone of defense mechanism

Answer 28

Repression