Psychoanalysis Part 2

Question 1

What is the timing for the genital stage?

Answer 1

from puberty on

This stage is not passed through, but attained

Question 2

What is the physical focus of the genital stage?

Answer 2

• genitals and the process of reproduction

- Focus on creation and enhancement of life, intellectual, artistic, or scientific contributions

Question 3

What is the Psychological theme of genital stage?

Answer 3

maturity/productivity and intimacy

Question 4

What is the achievement of the genital stage?

Answer 4

well-adjusted and balanced

Mental health achievement: the ability “to love and to work”

Question 5

What it the secondary process thinking: conscious thought?

Answer 5

Rational and practical
Able to delay or redirect gratification
How the conscious part of the ego thinks
Develops second; less important role

Question 6

What is the primary process thinking?

Answer 6

• the way the unconscious mind operates
• How the id thinks
• Does not contain the idea of “no” (because no principle of separateness and a very different sense of time)

Question 7

What is the goal of primary process thinking?

Answer 7

Goal is gratification of needs

Question 8

What is condensation?

Answer 8

: several ideas are compressed into one

Question 9

What is symbolization?

Answer 9

one thing stands for another

Question 10

When is primary process thinking seen?

Answer 10

Seen in very young children, during delirium and dreams, in art, and sometimes in psychosis
Rarely directly conscious (or agentive)
Can leak out in slips of the tongue, humor, accidents, and memory lapses/distortions

Question 11

What are the three levels of consciousness?

Answer 11

Topographic model
conscious mind
preconscious

Question 12

What is the topographical model?

Answer 12

the iceberg

Question 13

What is the conscious mind?

Answer 13

the part of mental functioning you can observe
Least important (in the sense of “in charge”)
Some of the ego and some of the superego

Question 14

What is preconscious?

Answer 14

ideas you are not currently aware of but that can be brought into awareness

Question 15

What is unconscious?

Answer 15

those areas and processes of the mind of which a person is not aware
All of id and most of the superego, some of the ego
Most important (determinative)

Question 16

Is the mind physically divided into 3?

Answer 16

The mind is not physically divided into three parts, but it is divided; much of what occurs is unconscious

Question 17

What does modern psychological research reveal?

Answer 17

• Different thoughts and structures of the mind work independently and can process different thoughts and motivations at the same time
• Information-processing capacity is limited, rather than energy based

Question 18

What are some implications that aren’t supported by research?

Answer 18

the hydraulic model and expression of anger

Question 19

How do you use Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route toward Understanding?

Answer 19

Use clues (based on free association, slips of the tongue, and dreams, the transference, & interpretation of everyday life) to reveal the contents of the unconscious (mainly to make conflicts conscious and manageable)

Question 20

How do you resolve problems?

Answer 20

Resolve problems by bringing unconscious conflicts to the surface so ego can deal with them (insight and “working through”)
May increase anxiety in the beginning
Patients must be comforted and guided through this process

Question 21

If psychic determinism is true, then a possible explanation for forgetting a person’s name could be that you…

Answer 21

do not like the person or

are in love with the person but don’t want to admit it to yourself

Question 22

During which stage of psychological development do people learn how to appropriately control their urges and what decisions are up to them or to an authority figure?

Answer 22

anal

Question 23

According to psychoanalytic theory, is more important than .

Answer 23

unconscious thought; conscious thought