Individual Differences & Freud

Question 1

Describe the Psychoanalytical perspective on personality

Answer 1

Driven by the unconscious

The product of early life experience

Question 2

Describe the humanistic perspective on personality

Answer 2

Understanding the experience PHENOMENology

Question 3

Describe the learning perspective on personality

Answer 3

Learning from experiences

conditioned responses

Question 4

Describe the trait perspective on personality

Answer 4

Aspects of personality over time consistently

Question 5

Describe the biological perspective on personality

Answer 5

Personality is biologically determined

Question 6

what is Freud’s structure of the mind

Answer 6

Conscious
Pre Conscious
Unconscious

Question 7

What is Conscious according to Freud

Answer 7

The aware state of being, our thoughts, and feeling

Question 8

What is PreConscious according to Freud

Answer 8

Holds information that can be accessed upon recall (e.g. an address)

Question 9

What is The Unonscious according to Freud

Answer 9

Thoughts and memories we are unaware of

not retrievable

Question 10

Main points of ID

Answer 10

Primitive urges

Operates in the unconscious

Question 11

Main points of Ego

Answer 11

Problem solving

Moral reasoning

Question 12

Main points of Super Ego

Answer 12

Regulates needs of both Ego and ID

Question 13

A threat to the ego is descibed as Fear which is

Answer 13

Objective anxiety

Question 14

Moral anxiety is guilt

Answer 14

A conflict between the ego and super Ego

Question 15

Neurotic Anxiety

Answer 15

A conflict between Id and ego

Question 16

What are the pschosexual stages of development

Answer 16

OAP’s Like Gravey

Oral - Tasting, licking, sucking
Anal - Anus is focal erogenous zone
Phalic - Gradually libido shifts to opposite-sex parent
Latency 
Genital