Lecture #3 -

Question 1

What Are The Three Core Principles Of The Mind As An Energy System?…

Answer 1

1. Instinctual Drives
2. Freud’s View of Mental Energy
3. Energy Conservation

Question 2

Hysteria (Conversion Disorder)

Answer 2

● Freud initially studied hysteria when it was believed by some that hysterical individuals were faking their symptoms.
● Modern research has provided evidence to support Freud’s theories about emotional and motor connections in the brain.

Question 3

Prevailing Belief

Answer 3

• People are inherently good, but society corrupts them.

Question 4

Freud’s Belief

Answer 4

○These drives are powerful and instinctual but often clash with societal norms.
○ Humans possess inborn sexual and aggressive drives that are a natural part
of their nature.

Question 4

Pleasure Principle

Answer 4

○Individuals are driven to seek pleasurable gratification of their inborn drives.
○The mind instinctively seeks satisfaction without concern for societal restrictions.

Question 5

Role of Society

Answer 5

○Society teaches individuals that many natural drives are socially unacceptable.
○Maintains norms and taboos that reinforce this lesson.

Question 6

Two Conceptual Models of the Mind

Answer 6

1. Levels of Consciousness
2. Functional Systems in the Mind

Question 7

Conscious

Answer 7

Thoughts we are currently aware of.

Question 8

Preconscious

Answer 8

Mental content we can become aware of easily if we focus on it.

Question 9

Unconscious

Answer 9

Parts of the mind we are unaware of and can access only under special circumstances.

Question 10

Id

Answer 10

• The primitive, instinctual part of the mind driven by pleasure and desires

Question 11

Ego

Answer 11

• The rational part that mediates between the id and reality.

Question 12

Superego

Answer 12

• The moral and ethical component, internalizing societal norms.

Question 13

Levels of Consciousness

Answer 13

• Slips of the tongue
• Neuroses and psychoses
• Works of art
• Rituals
• Dreams

Question 14

Manifest Content

Answer 14

• The storyline of a dream.

Question 15

Latent Content

Answer 15

• The unconscious ideas, emotions, and drives expressed in the dream’s storyline.

Question 16

Characteristics of the Unconscious in Dreams

Answer 16

Bizarre
Alogical
Timeless
Spaceless
Symbolic