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Freudian Psychology Flashcards

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Personality

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An individual’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors persisting over time and across situations
Develops from the efforts of our ego to resolve tension btwn our id and superego

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Psychodynamic View on Personality

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Behavior, as well as human emotions / personality, develop in a dynamic interplay btwn un/conscious processes, including various motives / inner conflicts

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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Grew up in a poor, Victorian household
Intelligent, brilliant; knew many languages
Identified that many powerful mental processes operate in the unconscious
Founded psychoanalyses

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Psychoanalysis

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Founded by Freud
Method of discovering and pursuing human personality / development
Includes free association, identification of freudian slips

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Free Association

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Technique used in psychoanalyses
Encouragement of the patient to speak his mind so that the therapist can verbally flow / lead a flow of thoughts into the past / unconscious

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Freud’s Personality / Mind Iceberg

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Id: largely makes up the submerged body / entire iceberg
Ego: constitutes most of the visible tip
Superego: constitutes some of the visible tip and some of the submerged body
Personality development follows this order

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Ego

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Operates on the reality principle

Seeks to gratify the id’s impulses in realistic ways that bring long-term pleasure

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Superego

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Operates on the morality principle

Our conscience that forces the ego to consider the ideal, producing pride / guilt; focuses on how we should behave

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Id

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Operates on the pleasure principle
Unconscious psychic energy that constantly strives to satisfy basic drives (hunger / sex); seeks intimate gratification based on needs of the erogenous zones

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Freud’s Unconscious

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A reservoir of thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories that are hidden from awareness b/c they feel unacceptable

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Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

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(0-18mon) Oral: sucking, biting, chewing
(18-36mon) Anal: bowel / bladder elimination, copes w/ demands for control
(3-6yr) Phallic: genitalia, incest
(6-pub) Latency: dormant sexual feelings
(pub+) Genital: SEX
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Freud on the Oedipus Complex

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Freud believed that boys in their phallic stages develop unconscious sexual feelings for their mother / rivalry towards their father; the resolution is that boys identify w/ their fathers

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Regression

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
eg. oral comfort of thumb sucking

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Reaction Formation

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites
eg. displaying exaggerated friendliness to repress anger

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Projection

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
eg. thief thinks everybody else is a thief

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Rationalization

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one’s actions
eg. habitual drinker assuring herself that she drinks to be sociable

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Displacement

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Shifting sexual / aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable / less threatening object or person
eg. Girl kicks dog b/c she is upset from mother

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Denial

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Freudian defense against anxiety
Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities
eg. partner denies his beloved’s affair

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Neo-Freudian, Psychodynamic Theorists’ Agreements w/ Freudian Psychology

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Figureheads: Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Carl Jung
Similar in:
- ideas about important of unconscious and development
- id / ego / superego structure
- role of defense mechanism against anxiety

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Neo-Freudian, Psychodynamic Theorists’ Disagreements w/ Freudian Psychology

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Figureheads: Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Carl Jung
Differed in:
- belief that anxiety / personality are a function of social, not sexual, tensions in childhood (Adler, Horney)
- belief that we have a collective unconscious; containing similar images across the human race and not just personal ones (Jung)

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Projective Tests

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Structured, systematic exposure to a standardized set of ambiguous prompts, designed to reveal inner dynamics
Problem: results don’t link well to traits and diff raters get diff results
eg. Rorschach tests (inkblot test)

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Updates on Freud’s Original Ideas

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  • development is lifelong
  • infant neural networks do not create lifelong traumas
  • peers have more influence on personality than do parents
  • dreams / slips have many possible origins
  • traumatic memories are usually intensely remembered, not repressed
  • suppressed sexuality does not cause psychological disorders
  • sexual id is more a function of genetics than Oedipus / Electra complex
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Unfalsifiability Theories in Freud’s Scientific Methods

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Freud developed theories that are hard to dis/prove

eg. how can we test the presence of an id?

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Unrepresentative Sampling in Freud’s Scientific Methods

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Freud did not build his theories on a broad sample of observations; he described all of humanity based on ppl w/ unusual psychological problems

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Biased Observations in Freud’s Scientific Methods

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Freud based theories on his patients, which may give him an incentive to see them as unwell before his treatment

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Post Facto Explanations (Hindsight Bias) in Freud’s Scientific Methods

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Freud did not make predictions about someone’s psyche; he made ultimatum conclusions based on results
eg. if you don’t / express anxiety, you’re repressing / fixating

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Modern Implications of Unconscious

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Unconscious processes operate b/c they are automatic, not repressed

  • implicit memories operate unconsciously
  • right hemisphere makes choices the left doesn’t verbalize
  • priming affects our choices

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