Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory

Question 1

Primary Need: security

Major Conflict: weaning (to get a child used to food other than its mother’s milk)

Answer 1

Oral Stage (Birth- 1 1/2 years old)

Question 2

Major Conflict: Oedipus and Electra Complex

Answer 2

Phallic (4-6 years of age)

Question 3

Major Conflict: toilet training

Answer 3

Anal Stage (1 1/2- 3 years old)

Question 4

source of pleasure: anus and bladder (sensual satisfaction and self-control)

Answer 4

Anal Stage

Question 5

Center of pleasure: mouth (major source of gratification and exploration)

Answer 5

Oral Stage

Question 6

Center of pleasure: child’s genital (masturbation)

Answer 6

Phallic Stage

Question 7

Energy directed towards full sexual maturity and function and development of skills to cope with the environment

Answer 7

Genital (puberty onwards)

Question 8

Energy directed to physical and intellectual activities; sexual impulses repressed

Answer 8

Latency (6 years old-puberty)