Personality Theories Freud (Filipino Personality and Social Work)

Question 1

According to Freud, it is the basis of personality, the innermost core of personality, and is closely related to biological processes

Answer 1

Id

Question 2

According to Freud, it is the direct outgrowth of Id, governed by considerations of safety; preservation of the organism.

Answer 2

Ego

Question 3

It is the conscience, the judge of right and wrong, in accord with the standards of parents

Answer 3

Superego

Question 4

3 Divisions of the Mind

Answer 4

id, ego, superego

Question 5

What are the different stages of personality development according to Freud?

Answer 5

Oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage

Question 6

According to Freud, the mind is ___% unconscious and ___% conscious.

Answer 6

90% unconscious and 10% conscious

Question 7

According to Freud, this is the core characteristics of personality; It is inherent and unchanging aspect of human beings.

Answer 7

Instinct

Question 8

This is the PLEASURE PRINCIPLE division of mind as characterized by Freud.

Answer 8

Id

Question 9

This is the REALITY PRINCIPLE division of mind as characterized by Freud.

Answer 9

Ego

Question 10

This is the CONSCIENCE division of mind as characterized by Freud.

Answer 10

Superego

Question 11

This term is referred as the Life Instincts - those which deal with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction, libido, procreation, social cooperation, and survival.

Answer 11

Eros

Question 12

This term is referred as the Death Instincts.

Answer 12

Thanatos

Question 13

A type of therapy that aims to release pent-up or repressed emotions and memories to lead the client to catharsis or healing

Answer 13

Psychoanalysis

Question 14

A Freudian term that is referred to sexual attraction of sons to their mothers; boys develop both sexual attraction to their mothers and jealousy of their fathers

Answer 14

Oedipus Complex

Question 15

A type of defense mechanism where there is a refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation.

Answer 15

Denial

Question 16

A type of defense mechanism where a person is “pushing” threatening or conflicting events or situations out of conscious memory.

Answer 16

Repression

Question 17

A type of defense mechanism where a person is making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior

Answer 17

Rationalization

Question 18

A type of defense mechanism where a person is placing one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself.

Answer 18

Projection

Question 19

A type of defense mechanism where a person is forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of one’s threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts.

Answer 19

Reaction formation

Question 20

A type of defense mechanism where a person is expressing feelings that would be threatening if directed at the real target onto a less threatening substitute target

Answer 20

Displacement

Question 21

A type of defense mechanism where a person is falling back on childlike patterns as a way of
coping with stressful situations.

Answer 21

Regression

Question 22

A type of defense mechanism where a person is trying to become like someone else to deal with one’s anxiety

Answer 22

Identification

Question 23

A type of defense mechanism where a person is trying to make up for areas in which
a lack is perceived by becoming superior in some other area.

Answer 23

Compensation (substitution)

Question 24

A type of defense mechanism where a person is turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behavior.

Answer 24

Sublimation

Question 25

Freud also believed that girls begin to view their mother as a rival for the father’s affection

Answer 25

Electra Complex

Question 26

During the phallic stage, the primary focus of libido is on the…

Answer 26

Genitals

Question 27

According to Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, what is the erogenous zone during the anal phase?

Answer 27

the bladder and the bowls

Question 28

What did Freud say couldn’t be classified as illness but was “produced by a certain arrest of sexual development”?

Answer 28

homosexuality

Question 29

According to Freud’s theory, what can occur when certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage?

Answer 29

fixations

Question 30

This stage of personality development according to Freud involves the mouth as the erogenous zone. The conflict that can arise here, according to Freud, will be over weaning (taking the mother’s breast away from the child, who will now drink from a cup). Weaning that occurs too soon or too late can result in too little or too much satisfaction of the child’s oral needs, resulting in the activities and personality traits associated with an orally fixated adult personality: overeating, drinking too much, chain smoking, talking too much, nail biting, gum chewing, and a tendency to be either too dependent and optimistic (when the oral need

Answer 30

Oral Stage

Question 31

At what age does the Oral Stage take place according to the Stages of Personality Development by Freud?

Answer 31

First 18 months

Question 32

Stage of the Personality Development by Freud wherein when a child becomes a toddler, the erogenous zone moves from the mouth to the anus, because Freud also believed that children got a great deal of pleasure from both withholding and releasing their feces at will.

Answer 32

Anal Stage

Question 33

At what age does the Anal Stage take place according to the Stages of Personality Development by Freud?

Answer 33

18 to 36 months

Question 34

One of the fixations of the anal stage wherein a child rebels and will refuse to go in the toilet which will translate later in his/her adulthood as ________ - someone who sees messiness as a statement of personal control and who is somewhat destructive and hostile.

Answer 34

Anal Expulsive Personality

Question 35

A fixation of the anal stage called ______ wherein adults become stingy, stubborn, and excessively neat due to being terrified of making a mess and rebel passively in their childhood; No mess, no punishment.

Answer 35

Anal Retentive Personality

Question 36

This stage of Personality Development according to Freud is the awakening of sexual curiosity and interest in the genitals. Children have discovered the differences between the sexes by now, and most have also engaged in perfectly normal self-stimulation of the genitals, or masturbation.

Answer 36

Phallic Stage

Question 37

At what age does the Anal Stage take place according to the Stages of Personality Development by Freud?

Answer 37

2 to 3 years old

Question 38

Stage of the Personality Theory by Freud wherein children grow and develop intellectually, physically, and socially but not sexually. This is the age at which boys play only with boys, girls play only with girls, and each
thinks the opposite sex is pretty awful.

Answer 38

Latency Stage

Question 39

At what age does the Latency Stage take place according to the Stages of Personality Development by Freud?

Answer 39

6 years to Puberty

Question 40

Stage of the Personality Theory by Freud wherein Bodies are changing and sexual urges are once more allowed into consciousness, but these urges will no longer have the parents as their targets. Instead, the focus of sexual curiosity and attraction will become other adolescents, celebrities, and other objects of adoration.

Answer 40

Genital Stage

Question 41

At what age does the Genital Stage take place according to the Stages of Personality Development by Freud?

Answer 41

Puberty onwards