Psychoanalysis pt.2

Question 1

What is the Anal stage of development?

Answer 1

where the physical focus of the libido is located in the anus and assiciated organs of elimination. Learning the sensations of having to go and dealing with them approperiately are important tasks.

The child will also figure out just how much power the authority figures around the child really have.

Question 2

What part of the mind develops with the anal stage??

Answer 2

The ego. iits the egos job to mediate between what the child wants and what is actually possible

Question 3

What is the primary psychological theme of the anal stage?

Answer 3

Self control and obediance

Question 4

Psychological mishaps at the anal stage produce the adult ______ ________, whose personality becomes organized around _____ ________.

Answer 4

Anal character; control issues

Question 5

what are the two personality extremes of the anal character

Answer 5

1) the kind of person that tries to control every aspect of life and oftem seens equally happy to submit to an authority figure, they also cant tollerate disorganization

2) little or no self control, cant do anything ontime, chaotic or disorganzied, and has a compulsive need to defy authority

Question 6

what is the Phallic stage of development?

Answer 6

The realization that boys and girls are different (boys have penises and girls dont). Boys fall psychially and emotionally in love w their mothers at this stage and fear their fathers jelousy. Each child also identifies with the same sex parent. This occurs from ages 3 1/2 - 7

Question 7

What is the psychological theme of the Phallic stage?

Answer 7

Gender identity and sexuality

Question 8

What is it called when a child uses their mother or father as examples on attitudes, values, and ways of relating to the opposite sex?

Answer 8

Identification

Question 9

What part of the brain develops more with the pallic stage of development?

Answer 9

The Superego

Question 10

An underdeveloped or overdeveloped superego yields the adult type of the phallic character, what is this person like?

Answer 10

They lack a moral code altogether

Question 11

What is the Genital stage of development?

Answer 11

The focus of thr libido is on the genitals and the process of reproduction, the creation an enhancement of life.

Question 12

What is the psychological theme of the genital stage?

Answer 12

Maturity

Question 13

According to Freud, what is the definition of mental health?

Answer 13

To love and to work

Question 14

What is it called when libido energy is left behind at a certain stage

Answer 14

Fixation

Question 15

What is it called when a person retreats to an earlier more immature stage of psychosexual development/

Answer 15

Regression

Question 16

What stage has a psychological theme of obedience and control?

Answer 16

Anal stage

Question 17

The oral phase is associated with adult character types of _________ or extreme _________

Answer 17

dependance or extreme independence

Question 18

what is the difference between Primary process thinking and Secondary process thinking?

Answer 18

Primary = the way the unconscious mind operates manifested by the id

Secondary = conscious processes of thought (literally thinking alone) that appears only as the ego begins to develop

Question 19

What is it called when you compress several ideas into one
eg. an image of a house or of a woman might consolidate a complex set of memories

Answer 19

Condensation

Question 20

What is it called where in primary thinking, one thing stands for another

Answer 20

Symbolization

Question 21

According to Freud, what are the 3 levels of consciousness?

Answer 21

At the top is Conscious mind =

Then its the Preconscious = ideas your not thinking about at the moment but you could bring it into you conscious easily

At the bottom its the unconscious = contains all of the id, superego, and most of the ego (most important part)

Question 22

What are defense mechanisms?

Answer 22

mechanisms of the ego that serve to protect the person from experiencing anxiety

Question 23

What is it called when a person refuses to believe bad news or other knowledge that might make one anxious?

Answer 23

Denial

Question 24

What is it called when a person banishes the past from current awareness

Answer 24

Repression

Question 25

What is it called when a person defends ones peace of mind by creating the opposite idea

eg. a boy bullying a girl because hes attracted to her

Answer 25

Reaction formation

Question 26

What is it called when someone displaces their feelings onto a different person/animal/object

Answer 26

Projection

Question 27

What is it called when someone comes up with a reational explanation for doing what one wants without acknowledging the real motivation
eg. you have to be crul to be kind

Answer 27

Rationalization

Question 28

What is it called when someone translates anxiety producing thoights into concepts that puts emotions at a distance

eg. repeatedly listing the benefits of being single instead of facing the pain of rejection after a breakup

Answer 28

Intellectualizing

Question 29

What is Displacement?

Answer 29

Moving the object of ones emotions from a dangerous target to a safe one
eg. kicking the wall instead of your manager

Question 30

What is Sublimation?

Answer 30

turning dangerous anxiety producing impulses towards constructive ends
eg. someone who likes to argue a lot becomes a lawyer

Question 31

What is the main goal of psychoanayltic therapy?

Answer 31

To make people aware of the things that are causing them anxiety so that they can deal with them consciously and logically

Question 32

What is Transference?

Answer 32

The tendency to bring ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that developed toward one important person into a later relationship with a different person.

Question 33

What is it called when a therapist and patient form an emotional bond?

Answer 33

Therapeutic alliance

Question 34

What are 5 critiques of the psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 34

1) Its too complex
2) Freud only got his ideas from cased studies
3) Isnt specific enough and doesnt include operational definitions (cant test his ideas in a scientific way)
4) His ideas are untestible
5) His ideas are expremely sexist