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Introduction and Psychoanalysis Flashcards

Sigmund Freud

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Contents you are currently not aware of

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Preconscious

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Contents kept out of conscious awareness and not accessible at all

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Unconscious

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Houses biological instincts

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Id

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Uses rational means

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Ego

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Level of the mind with moral and ideal aspects

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Superego

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Current contents and called as working memory

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Conscious

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Birthday of Sigmund Freud

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May 6, 1856

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A useful theory…

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  1. Generates research
  2. Falsifiable
  3. Organizes data
  4. Guides actions
  5. Internally consistent
  6. Parsimonius
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Type of theory of behaviorists, social learning theorists, and trait theories

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Quantitative Theories

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Type of theories of psychoanalysts, humanists, and existentialists

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Qualitative theory

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Concerned with measurement, labeling, and categorization of the units employed in theory building

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Descriptive research

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Indirect verification of the usefulness of the theory

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Hypothesis testing

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Characteristic of theory that means precise enough to suggest research may either support or fail to support its major tenets

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Falsifiable

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Characteristic of theory which means organization and classification and should have a theoretical framework

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Organizes data

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Characteristic of theory that shall provide answers to avalanche of questions

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Guides action

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Characteristic of theory that must be consistent with itself whose components are basically compatible

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Internally consistent

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Characteristic of theories which are equal in their ability to generate research, be falsifiable and be self-consistent

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Parsimonius

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Extent which it yields consistent results

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Reliability

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Degree which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure

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Validity

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Measures some hypothetical construct

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Construct validity

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Scores correlate highly with scores of the same construct

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Convergent validity

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Low, insignificant correlations with other inventories that do not measure the construct

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Divergent validity

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Discriminates between two groups of people known to be different

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Discriminant validity

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Extent that a test predicts some future behavior

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Predictive validity

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Technique used by Freud to uncover unconscious material to consciousness by saying what comes to mind

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Free Association

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Result from sexual temptations if a child believes that yielding to the temptation would be morally wrong

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Moral Anxiety

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Defense mechanism whereby ego reduces anxiety by attributing unwanted impulse to another person

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Projection

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Defense mechanism where ego attempts to do away with unpleasant experiences and their consequences, usually through ceremonial, compulsive behavior

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Defense mechanism where ego remains at the present, more comfortable, secured psychosocial stage, and considered universal

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Defense mechanism where one incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own

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Identification

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Pleasure centering around the mouth

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Oral Stage (0-18 months)

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Fixation in the mouth which results to smoking, drinking, nail biting

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Oral Aggressive

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Fixation in the mouth which results to being silent or gullible

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Oral Incorporative

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Bowel and bladder elimination and has focus on search for control

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Anal Stage (18-35 months)

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Rigid and obsessive personality

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Anal Retentive

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Messy and disorganized personality

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Anal Expulsive

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Focus on genital area and difference between male and females

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Phallic Stage (3-6 years)

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Girls’ unconscious desires towards father and thinks of mother as competition

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Electra Complex

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Boys’ unconscious desires towards mother and thinks of father as competition

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Oedipus Complex

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Simultaneous fear of father

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Castration Anxiety

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Brought by castration anxiety

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Castration Complex

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Sexual interest is repressed and kids play with others of the same sex

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Latency Stage (6 years to puberty)

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Sexual urges are awakened

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Genital Stage (puberty and beyond)

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Inborn psychological representation of an inner somatic source of excitation

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Word which means “drive” or “stimulus within a person”

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Refers to life instinct

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Refers to death inctinct

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Force by which life or sexual instincts works

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Aims to reduce sexual tension

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Sexual Instinct

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Developed when people invest their libido on an object or person other than themselves

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Libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego

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Primary Narcissism

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Redirecting libido back to the ego and become preoccupied with personal appearance and other self-interests

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Secondary Narcissism

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Apprehension about unknown danger

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Neurotic Anxiety

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Conflict between realistic needs and the dictates of superego

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Moral Anxiety

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Defined as an unpleasant, non-specific feeling involving danger

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Realistic Anxiety

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Hedonistic Principle

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Pleasure Principle

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Principle which means that one cannot have all the enjoyment in life

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Reality Principle

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People are bombarded with choices/conflicts in life

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Polarity-duality

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Means our habits are compelled to repeat what is pleasurable

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Repetition-Compulsion

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Reduces anxiety

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Tension-reduction

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