FREUD PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Question 1

Sigmund Freud’s theory suggests that human behavior is
influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and
urges. This theory also proposes that the psyche
comprises three aspects: the id, ego, and superego. The
id is entirely unconscious, while the ego operates in the
consiiuous mind.

Answer 1

STAGE 1:
FREUD PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Question 2

A measure of the demand made upon the mind for gratifying bodily needs. Our biological ____________ largely govern our behavior.

Answer 2

INSTINCT

Question 3

These instinctive urges seek to preserve life. Each of us is motivated satisfy our hunger, thirst and sexual needs.Without food and water, we could not survive. The energy associated with these instincts he termed libido.

Answer 3

Life (Eros)

Question 4

He believed that “the goal of all life is death” (Freud, 1952b, p. 652)—that human beings strive to return to an inorganic state of balance that preceded life, in which there is no painful struggle to satisfy biological needs.

Answer 4

DEATH (thanatos)

Question 5

STAGE 2

Answer 5

STAGE 2: THE STRUCTURAL MODEL: ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO

Question 6

According to Freud, the ___ is the source of all
psychic energy, making it the primary
component of personality.

Answer 6

Id (das es) *present at birth

Question 7

According to Freud, the ____ develops from the id
and ensures that the impulses of the id can be
expressed in a manner acceptable in the real
world.

Answer 7

Ego (das ich) age 2

Question 8

According to Freud, the ____ begins to emerge at around a age five.

Answer 8

Superego (das Uber-Ich) age 5

Question 9

CONCIOUS, PRECONCIOUS, UNCONCIOUS

Answer 9

TAGE 3: The Topographic Model:
Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious

Question 10

STAGE 4

Answer 10

STAGE 4: Stages of Psychosexual Development

Question 11

-An infant is controlled by biological impulses and is basically selfish. The focus of pleasurable sensations or “during the first pregenital stage is the mouth.

Answer 11

ORAL

Question 12

Overeating, gullible, smoking

Answer 12

Oral Receptive

Question 13

Shouting, nagging, being sarcastic argumentative

Answer 13

Oral Aggressive

Question 14

During the second and third years, pleasurable sensations are focused on the anal cavity: the chief pleasures for the child involve retention or expulsion of feces.

Answer 14

ANAL

Question 15

messy, lack of commitment

Answer 15

Anal-expulsive

Question 16

obsessive in cleanliness,stingy

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ANAL RETENTIVE

Question 17

During the fourth and fifth years, Freud suggested that during this stage, the primary focus of the libido is on the genitals. At this age, children also begin to discover the differences between males and females.

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PHALLIC

Question 18

Boys having sexual feelings towards their mother and hostile feelings to their father.

Answer 18

OEDIPAL COMPLEX

Question 18

Girls having sexual feelings towards their father and hostile feelings to their mother.

Answer 18

ELECTRA COMPLEX

Question 19

Freud postulated a ____
stage, from the sixth year to puberty,
during which sexual feelings are inactive.

Answer 19

LATENCY

Question 20

STAGE 5:

Answer 20

DEFENSE MECHANISM

Question 20

With the advent of puberty, sexual tension increases dramatically. The reproductive organs have matured, and both sexes are now capable of procreation. Previously, the aims of the sexual instincts have been predominantly autoerotic, but now the goal is to mate with an appropriate sex object.

Answer 20

GENITAL

Question 21

share two features: They occur on an unconscious level so that we are not aware of what we are doing, and they deny or distort reality so as to make it less threatening.

Answer 21

DEFENSE MECHANISM

Question 22

Character Types of Defense Mechanism

Answer 22

REPRESSION
DENIAL
PROJECTION
REACTION FORMATION
REGRESSION
RATIONALIZATION
DISPLACEMENT
SUBLIMATION

Question 23

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. In many cases the __________ is then perpetuated for a lifetime.

Answer 23

REGRESSION

Question 24

refers to a person’s refusal to perceive an unpleasant event in external reality. In adults, the use of denial may be normal during times of extreme stress.

Answer 24

DENIAL

Question 25

When a person protects the ego by attributing his or her own undesirable characteristics to others, we might infer that ____ has taken place.

Answer 25

PROJECTION

Question 26

The conversion of an undesirable impulse into its opposite is known as _______________

________behavior can be identified by its exaggerated character and by its obsessive and compulsive form

Answer 26

REACTION FORMATION

Question 27

there is a movement from mature behavior to immature behavior. That is, when the ego is threatened, the person may revert to an earlier, more infantile form of behavior as a means of coping with the stress.

Answer 27

REGRESSION

Question 28

is the justification of behavior through the use of plausible, but inaccurate, excuses.

Answer 28

RATIONALIZATION

Question 29

refers to the unconscious attempt to obtain gratification for id impulses by shifting them to substitute objects if objects that would directly satisfy the impulses are not available

Answer 29

DISPLACEMENT

Question 30

is a form of
_____________in which the unacceptable id impulses themselves are transformed, rather than the object at which they aim. The unacceptable impulses are _____________ by ones that are socially acceptable.

Answer 30

SUBLIMATION