INTRO TOP - SIGMUND FREUD

Question 1

The word personality comes from the Latin word?

Answer 1

persona

Question 2

It is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that gives both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior

Answer 2

personality

Question 3

list down 6 things that makes a theory useful

Answer 3

Generates Research
Falsifiable
Organized Data
Guides Action
internal consistent
Parsimonious

Question 4

the ability of a theory to stimulate new research

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Generates research

Question 5

the ability of a theory to be confirmed and disconfirmed

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Falsifiable

Question 6

the ability of a theory to guide the practitioner over rough courses of day to day problems

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Guides Action

Question 7

the components of a theory is logically compatible

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Internally Consistent

Question 8

a good theory must be simple as possible.

Answer 8

Parsimonious

Question 9

who is the main proponent of psychoanalysis

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Sigmund freud

Question 10

the application of psychoanalysis to a therapy

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Psychodynamic

Question 11

when did Sigmund Freud born

Answer 11

either march 6 or may 6 of 1856

Question 12

what did Freud discovered while using the catharsis

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Free association technique

Question 13

who thought Freud about catharsis

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Josef Breuer

Question 14

What do you call the process of removing hysterical symptoms by “talking them out”

Answer 14

Catharsis

Question 15

name the 3 levels of mental life

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conscious
pre conscious
unconscious

Question 16

contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings and actions.

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Unconscious

Question 17

inherited unconscious image which originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generation.

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Phylogenetic endowment

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the level of the mind that contains all those elements that are not conscious but can became conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

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Pre Conscious

Question 19

the level of mental life that is the elements for awareness at any given pint in time. it is the only level of mental directly available to us.

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Conscious

Question 20

list down the 3 provinces of the mind

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id
ego
super ego

Question 21

the core personality and completely unconscious.it serves the pleassure principle

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id

Question 22

the only region of the mind in contact with reality. it works under reality principle

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ego

Question 23

it represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality and is guided by moralistic and idealistic principle

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superego

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super ego two subsystem

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conscience
ego - ideal

Question 25

two types of instincts

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life instinct
death instinct

Question 26

process of attaching your libido to objects or people.

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cathexis

Question 27

serve the purpose of survival of the individual and the species by seeking to satisfy the needs for food, water, air and sex.

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life instinct

Question 28

drawing from biology he stated the obvious fact that all living things decay and die, returning to their original inanimate state.

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the death instinct

Question 29

the force of psychological motivation. it originates in the id, but they come under the control of the ego

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Drives

Question 30

what are the two types of drives

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sex drives
aggression, distraction or thanatos.

Question 31

this drive suggest that all living organisms will return to its inorganic state.

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aggression, distraction or thanatos

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also known as the “eros” the aim of this drives is pleasure. the pleassure is not limited to genital satisfaction

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sex drives

Question 33

this is anything that puts threats to the ego.it is a felt , affective, unpleasant, state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns a person against impending danger.

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anxiety

Question 33

3 types of anxiety according to Freud

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neurotic
moral
realistic/objective

Question 34

apprehension about the unknown danger. the feeling itself exist in the ego, but originates from the id impulses

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neurotic anxiety

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stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego

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moral anxiety

Question 36

closely related to fear.it is defined as an unpleasant, non specific feeling involving a possible danger

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realistic/objective anxiety

Question 37

the most basic defense mechanism, because it is involved un each of others.

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repression

Question 38

are relatively minor errors in everyday living such as slips of tongue, forgetting things, losing things, small accidents and mistakes in writing.

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parapraxes

Question 39

a defense mechanism in which unacceptable or threatening unconscious impulses are denied and are replaced in consciousness with their opposite

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reaction formation

Question 40

Infants are primarily self-centered, with their libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego

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primary narcissisms

Question 41

when adolescents redirect their libido back to the ego and become preoccupied with personal appearance and other self-interests during puberty

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secondary narcissisms