Lecture 11: Psychodynamics

Question 1

Sigmund Freud

Answer 1

First developed the talking cure.

Question 2

Psychodynamic perspective

Answer 2

Unconscious factors influence behaviour

Question 3

Conscious mind

Answer 3

Your current awareness, containing everything you are aware of right now

Question 4

Unconscious mind

Answer 4

Vast and powerful but inaccessible, operating without conscious endorsement.

Question 5

Superego

Answer 5

Internalized social morals and values.

Question 6

Denial

Answer 6

Refusing to acknowledge unpleasant information, particularly about oneself.

Question 7

Displacement

Answer 7

Transforming an unacceptable impulse into a less unacceptable behaviour.

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Unconsciously assuming characteristics of a more powerful person in order to reduce feelings of anxiety

Question 9

Repression

Answer 9

Keep distressing information out of conscious awareness by burying it

Question 10

Sublimination

Answer 10

Transforming unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable alternatives

Question 11

Turn against self

Answer 11

Think badly about yourself instead of those who hurt you

Question 12

Regression

Answer 12

Regress to child like state under pressure

Question 13

Fantasy

Answer 13

Dissociate from reality

Question 14

Intellectualization

Answer 14

Retreat into intellect

Question 15

Libido

Answer 15

Pyschosexual energy

Question 16

oral fixation

Answer 16

Smoking, overeating, nail biting.

Question 17

Eros

Answer 17

Life instinct

Question 18

Thanatos

Answer 18

Death instinct

Question 19

Analytic psychology

Answer 19

Roles of unconscious archetypes in personality development