LESSON 3: Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspective

Question 1

modifications, extensions, or revisions of Freud’s original psychoanalytic theory

Answer 1

neo-freudian

Question 2

method of investigating and treating personality disorders that are commonly used in psychotherapy

Answer 2

psychoanalytical perspective

Question 3

past experiences of people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as adults

True or False

Answer 3

true

Question 4

3 regions of the mind

Answer 4

• conscious
• preconscious
• unconscious

Question 5

mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

Answer 5

conscious

Question 6

conscious is a highly ______ state

Answer 6

fugitive

Question 7

turned toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perception of external stimuli

Answer 7

perceptual conscious system

Question 8

contains all elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty

Answer 8

preconscious

Question 9

memories and emotions that have not been repressed can be _______

Answer 9

preconscious

Question 10

consists of thoughts and feelings that are repressed and therefore unknown

Answer 10

unconscious

Question 11

unconscious holds the _____ area

Answer 11

largest

Question 12

region of the mind where the id resides

Answer 12

unconscious

Question 13

discharge of previously repressed effects or emotions connected to traumatic events that occur when these events are brought back into someone’s consciousness and re-experienced

Answer 13

catharsis

Question 14

people could achieve catharsis by bringing _____ and ____ to light

Answer 14

• unconscious feelings
• memories

Question 15

3 parts of personality

Answer 15

• id
• ego
• superego

Question 16

represents the norms & qualities of the individual, his family and society

Answer 16

superego

Question 17

unorganized part of the personality structure that contains a human’s basic, instinctual drives

Answer 17

id

Question 18

mind’s avenue to the real world; mediates between the id and the external world

Answer 18

ego

Question 19

rational thinking that includes intellectual activities such as perception, logical thought, problem-solving, and memory

Answer 19

secondary-process thought

Question 20

moral principle

Answer 20

superego

Question 21

reality priinciple

Answer 21

ego

Question 22

pleasure principle

Answer 22

id

Question 23

coping styles used during moments of anxiety brought by unresolved libidinous urges

Answer 23

defense mechanisms

Question 24

8 types of defense mechanisms

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• repression
• regression
• denial
• rationalization
• reaction-formation
• fixation
• projection
• displacement

Question 25

refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

Answer 25

denial

Question 26

work by banishing any thoughts, feelings, or memories that cause anxiety in the unconscious

Answer 26

repression

Question 27

disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

Answer 27

projection

Question 28

offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's action

Answer 28

rationalization

Question 29

switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

Answer 29

reaction-formation

Question 30

shifting sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

Answer 30

displacement

Question 31

retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

Answer 31

regression

Question 32

a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

Answer 32

fixation

Question 33

5 stages of psychosexual development

Answer 33

- oral - anal - phallic - latency - genital

Question 34

childhood personality problems were the result of early experiences in life True or False

Answer 34

False - adult personality problems

Question 35

parts of the body that have especially strong pleasure-giving qualities at particular stages of development

Answer 35

erogenous zones

Question 36

3 erogenous zones

Answer 36

- mouth - anus - genitals

Question 37

occurs during the first 18 months of life when the infant's pleasure centers on the mouth

Answer 37

oral

Question 38

pleasure focuses on the genitals as the child discovers that self-stimulation is enjoyable

Answer 38

phallic

Question 39

phallic stage triggers the ______

Answer 39

oedipus complex

Question 40

final stage of psychosexual development; time of sexual reawakening, but the source of sexual pleasure now becomes someone outside the family

Answer 40

genital

Question 41

the child's greatest pleasure involves the anus or the eliminative functions associated with it

Answer 41

anal

Question 42

the child represses all interest in sexuality and develops social and intellectual skills

Answer 42

latency

Question 43

men were affected by their inability to bear children

Answer 43

womb envy

Question 44

when female children notice their lack of a penis, they see it as a deficit

Answer 44

penis envy

Question 45

attraction of daughter to father

Answer 45

electra complex

Question 46

attraction of son to mother

Answer 46

oedipus complex

Question 47

5 mechanisms of development

Answer 47

- maturation - external frustrations - internal conflicts - personal inadequacies - anxiety

Question 48

certain skills, knowledge, expertise, or experience that the person needs but lacks

Answer 48

personal inadequacies

Question 49

cause a painful buildup of tension and force children to delay and detour their discharge of energy

Answer 49

external frustration

Question 50

external frustration come from ___ or ___ that do not allow the immediate expression of needs

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- people - events

Question 51

involves changes in the nervous system, motor development, hormonal changes, drives, and so on

Answer 51

maturation

Question 52

unpleasant feeling that occurs when the child anticipates physical or psychological pain

Answer 52

anxiety

Question 53

3 types of anxiety

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- neurotic anxiety - moral anxiety - realistic anxiety

Question 54

arise from the battle among the id, ego, and superego, or more specifically, between drives and forces of repression

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internal conflicts

Question 55

2 types of drives

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- sexual drives - death drives

Question 56

apprehension about an unknown danger

Answer 56

neurotic anxiety

Question 57

unpleasant, nonspecific, feeling involving a possible danger

Answer 57

realistic anxiety

Question 58

stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego

Answer 58

moral anxiety

Question 59

can be expressed via narcissism, love, sadism, and masochism

Answer 59

sexual drives

Question 60

expressed via teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor and enjoyment of other people's suffering

Answer 60

death drives

Question 61

operate as a constant motivational force

Answer 61

drives

Question 62

Freud believed that the entire body is invested with libido, especially in the erogenous zones True or False

Answer 62

true

Question 63

the aim of the destructive drive is to return the organism to an ______ state

Answer 63

inorganic

Question 64

destructive state

Answer 64

death drives

Question 65

energy for sexual drive

Answer 65

libido