Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud’s theory focuses on

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the unconscious where we bury conflicts making conscious life more difficult

Question 2

Who was Charcot and influence on Freud

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Charcot thought hysteria had a cure, condition is of psychological origin
Freud spent year with him, made impression, thought of hypnosis, inspired idea of unconscious

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Hysteria and treatments

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spastic tics, speech impairments, electrotherapy and hypnosis

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What caused hysteria according to Freud

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sexual abuse during childhood

Question 5

Abrecation

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emotional outpouring from patient

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Josef Breuer

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Prominent Viennese psychologist, researched hysteria

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Who did Freud work with after Charcot

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Breuer

Question 8

Who was treating Anna O

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Breuer

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Why was Anna o significant

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Being treated in revolutionary new treatment - talking treatment

Question 10

Talking treatment

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Bringing back painful experiences and talking about them, symptoms got better

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Transference

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Strong emotional attachment from ind to therapist

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Free association & its use

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Encouraging patients to speak freely, little censorship or guidance. To make patients feel better over time and reveal disturbing instances linked to past

Question 13

What are the four attributes of instincts

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Have four attributes - source, aim, object, impetus.

Question 14

Instinctual activity is ___

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Cyclical

Question 15

The ___ is the energy some of the life instinct

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Libido

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The death instinct is an extension of ___

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Conservation of energy

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Who was little Hans

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Son of a friend, follower of Freud, treated by father, witnessed an accident at four years old developed

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Why did Hans have a fear of horses according to Freud

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Afraid father would castrate him for desiring his mother

Question 19

What are the 3 levels of consciousness

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Conscious mind, preconscious mind, unconscious mind

Question 20

What is the structure of personality (3)

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Ego, superego, id

Question 21

What is dream analysis

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Dreams uncensored, so everything is fair game, gives access to repressed thoughts

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What is the latent content of dreams

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Underlying hidden meaning of a dream

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What is the manifest content of dreams

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Content that is remembered

Question 24

List the 5 psychosexual stages

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Oral (0-1), anal (1-3), phallic (3-6), latent (7-13), genital (puberty-death)

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Oedipus complex

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Rivalry with father

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Castration anxiety

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Fantasize about getting rid of father but know he is stranger, fear of being punished for desire

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Fixation

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Neurosis, dependencies, addictions, clinical depression

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Libido

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Sex drive

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Defence mechanisms , coined by ___

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Anna Freud, tricks used by ego to protect individual from anxiety, unaware of use

Question 30

Denial is ___

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Primitive

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What is denial

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Refusal to acknowledge anxiety-provoking stimuli, distorts event perception

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What is repression

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Denial to consciousness, basic defenses against anxiety caused by internal consciousness

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What is regression

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Returning to an earlier, safer time in life, immature behaviour

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Regression is ___

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Primitive

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Projection is ___

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Primitive

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What is projection

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Attributing unacceptable taboo whites and thoughts to someone else when they are attributes of oneself

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What is displacement

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Shifting one's unconscious aggression or fears to a safer target

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What is sublimation

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Dangerous urges channeled into positive, socially meaningful actions

Question 39

Reaction formation is ___

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Primitive

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What is reaction formation

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Transforming anxiety-producing thoughts into their opposites in consciousness, exaggerated behaviour

Question 41

What is rationalization

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Creating logical, socially acceptable explanation for behaviours which are driven by unconscious impulses

Question 42

How aid Melanie Klein's object relations theory differ from Freud's theory

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Variant of psychoanalytic theory, places less emphasis on bio based needs and more on relationships

Question 43

Fixation at the oral stage causes one to be ___

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Gullible

Question 44

The I'd has two mechanisms

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Reflex action and primary process

Question 45

Who introduced terms such as anxiety, repression. Unconscious, etc

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Freud

Question 46

The psyche is defined as (3)

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Our mind, thoughts & feelings, how we define ourselves

Question 47

Repression is the only defense that leaves ___ in the memory

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Holes

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id operates by the ___ principle

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Pleasure

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Superego operates by the ___ principle

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Morality

Question 50

The ego is the _ part that developed

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Second

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The ego mediates the demands of the

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id and superego

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Positivism in biological science sought to

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Apply experimental rigour of astronomy, physics, chemistry to biology, physiology, and medicine

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Subliminal messages have a very _ impact on decisions

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Brief

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Freud argued the mind is both

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Psychological and biological

Question 55

Freudian slips occur more when tired or distracted because

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Defense are down and unconscious slips out