General

Question 1

Motives

Answer 1

Pleasure- sexually and aggressively

Question 2

Catharsis

Answer 2

Releasing trapped emotion

Eg by watching a violent film

Question 3

Swaffer and Hollin

Answer 3

100 young offenders questionnaire assessed anger and health. Suppresses= more likely to have depression

Question 4

Diff parts want diff things

Answer 4

Dynamic struggles which determines behaviour by activities of unconscious.

Question 5

Anna O

Answer 5

Symptom of hysteria could drink from a glass, remembered dog licking one then could-unconscious

Question 6

Id

Answer 6

Born with it
Desires- libido and Thanatos
Pleasure Principles, sexual repressed

Question 7

Ego

Answer 7

Develop around 2-3 yrs
Reality principle
Make discussions based on the demands of the ID and the restrictions of the superego

Question 8

Superego

Answer 8

Develops at 5 ish years
Morality principle
Develops from parents/upbringing (eg Oedipus/identification)
What we should be like

Question 9

Only adult perverts lick guinea pigs

Answer 9

Oral 
Anal
Phallic 
Latency 
Genital

Question 10

Defence mechanisms

Answer 10

Unconscious ego trying to protect conscious ego for anxieties such as moral (guilt) and neurotic (pain).

Can arise if Id or superego becoming too demanding

Question 11

Repression

Answer 11

Repress traumatic event by pushing it to the unconscious so you ‘forget’ it.

The ego can repress demands of the id or superego

Question 12

Displacement

Answer 12

Transfer of urges to another

Eg kicking your cat cause your boss fired you!

Question 13

Regression

Answer 13

When someone’s behaviour like that of someone in an earlier stage of development.

Question 14

Sublimation

Answer 14

Substituting an activity for your needs, used mostly to suppress sex drive

Question 15

Isolation

Answer 15

When you have a memory that’s come through from the unconscious but had no emotions with it.
Eg if you can now remember a traumatic event and talk about it without any distress.

Question 16

Conscious pre and un

Answer 16

Conscious- emotions you are aware of. Eg thoughts
Pre- info you have to think about to remember. eg seeing an old photo reminds you of event in childhood.
Un- not accessible, inner drives, repressed experienced, dynamic struggles.

Question 17

Maier and lachman

Answer 17

2998 adults did a survey and found:

If loss/ divorce of parent in childhood depression is more likely and they have less self-acceptance.

Question 18

Freud’s explanation of gender development for girls

Answer 18

Electra complex- in Philip stage realise no penis, blames mother, penis envy, baby substitute. Identifies to get fathers affection so she can have a baby.
Ego eventually represses desires using sublimation to redirect it.
Dormant in latency, in genital redirected at someone else.

Question 19

Freud’s explanation for male gender development

Answer 19

Oedipus- desires mum (lidido) focus is on genitals-sexual. Sees father as a barrier- castration anxiety, hates father, anxiety becomes higher than desire so love is repressed.
Ego solve id and anxieties by identifying with father, adopting attitudes and beliefs and developing superego and morals that reflect their fathers. (Mum might then desire him)

Question 20

Psy compared to learning, similarities

Answer 20

Imitate parents to develop gender after birth.

Have supporting case studies-bandura, little hans

Question 21

Psy and learning differences:

Answer 21

Role model can be anyone not just Sam sex parent.
Learning is more scientific
Psy- identify and then take on behaviour
Learning- imitate then identify

Question 22

Similarities between psy and bio

Answer 22

Both have supporting evidence/studies:

Money and little hans.

Question 23

Difference between bio and psy

Answer 23

Psy- Gender develops after birth
Bio- gender at contraception    nature  
Unconscious nurture 
Scientific, scans DNA 50% from each 
Not scientific, analysis of case studies, id, ego, superego, in mind hard to measure.