Lecture 2

Question 1

Psychoanalysts

Answer 1

Studying human functioning and behaviour. Investigate the mind.

Question 2

Freud’s conception of the human psyche

Answer 2

Conscious, Preconscious (Superego, Ego) Unconscious (Id)

Question 3

ID, EGO, & Superego

Answer 3

ID: I want (Biological instinct)
EGO: I can (psychological intelligence)
Superego: I ought to (social/moral and institutional v. individual)

Question 4

Psychosexual development

Answer 4

Oral: First year of life of the libido (stimulated by mucous membrane of our mouth)
Anal: 2-3 years gained from anus excretion and retention of faeces.
Phallic: 3-4 Erotic pleasure from the genitals
Latency/forgetful: 5 years until puberty: psychosexual desires are forgotten.
Puberty: Development of sexual behaviour

Question 5

Free association method

Answer 5

Replaced hypnosis, Associations point to inner conflict within the patient. e.g. star –> bright, movie, universe, cluster, and ray

Question 6

Freudian slips

Answer 6

common mistakes e.g. say the wrong word or forgetting names or wright something else than we intended

Question 7

interpretation of dreams

Answer 7

Book by Freud to interpretative meanings of dreams.

Question 8

Interpretation of symbols

Answer 8

Bridge: male organ that connects two parents in intercourse or something weird.

Question 9

Defense mechanism

Answer 9

Various reactions to deal with an unpleasant situation.

Question 10

Suppression

Answer 10

: I hate him but I will be nice to him.

Question 11

Rationalisation:

Answer 11

explanations to justify his behaviour (he is cruel in order to push us)

Question 12

Reaction formation:

Answer 12

opposite feeling “He is great”

Question 13

Sublimation:

Answer 13

redirect feeling into something socially productive like writing a poem.

Question 14

Projection:

Answer 14

I hate the professor so someone else have the same opinion as me.

Question 15

Intellectualisation

Answer 15

rationalisation only more thinking.

Question 16

Isolation of affect:

Answer 16

Think the feeling but don’t feel it (I guess I hate him)

Question 17

Denial:

Answer 17

I am not angry with him.

Question 18

Undoing:

Answer 18

Do something that shows the opposite feeling.

Question 19

Displacement

Answer 19

Redirect your feelings e.g. your wife

Question 20

Regression:

Answer 20

immature response to ventilate your feelings.

Question 21

Transference

Answer 21

Unconscious redirection of feelings for one person to another “you look like my grandchild”

Question 22

Countertransference

Answer 22

The doctor responds to redirected feelings by acting as the individual e.g. grandson

Question 23

Carl Gustav Jung

Answer 23

Founder of analytical psychology: Jungian psychology and collective unconscious

Question 24

Alfred Adler

Answer 24

Inferiority and superiority

children feeling inferior due to size and strive for superiority

Question 25

Radical Behaviourists:

Answer 25

No mental concept and only observe external behaviour. Control stimulus and record response SR psychology

Question 26

Behaviouralist key figures:

Answer 26

Pavlov Watson and Skinner

Question 27

Köhler

Answer 27

Insight learning, monkeys using tools to reach banana.

Question 28

Humanistic School (Carl Rogers and Maslow)

Answer 28

Holistic (person centred approach), empathise with patient, everyone is good and can resolve personal problems.

Question 29

Carl Rogers

Answer 29

Rogerian therapy:
Congruence (genuine with patient)
Empathy: Feel what patient feels.
Respect: unconditional positive regard toward the patient

Question 30

Maslow

Answer 30

Pyramid

Question 31

Transpersonal school

Answer 31

Spiritual aspect of the human experience (religion)

Most integrated complete psychology or positive psychology since it integrates the whole spectrum of human development.