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Psychoanalytic Approach and Freud Flashcards

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Where was Freud from, what background?

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1850s-1940s, mostly in Vienna where there was very rigorous sexual morality and intense focus on purity of women and children

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What were Freud’s theory on perverse ideas?

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He believed that the mind is dominated by perverse sexual ideas stemming from the unconscious mind, but that are repressed.

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What is the cause of neuroticism?

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Repression of distressing emotions

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Can the unconscious mind manifest itself?

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Yes, through slip of tones, obsession, anxiety, etc.

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What is dream analysis?

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Belief that dreams have deeper meaning. Manifest content refers to the literal explanation of dreams vs. the latent content which is the deeper meaning of dreams

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What is free association?

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Method where patients say anything that comes into mind, often it reveals unconscious thoughts and will concern traumatic sexual experiences in childhood

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What idea did the psychopathology of Everyday Life by Freud advance?

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That no actions were accidental, rather it is the subconscious trying to guide actions.

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What is one similarity between behavioralism and psychoanalytic?

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Determinism, idea that there is no free will, behaviorist believe everything is determined by the environment whereas psychoanalytic say everything is determined by unconscious mind

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What are instincts according to Freud?

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The two main factors at the base of one’s personality. 1) Libido or life instinct which is survival oriented. 2) Thanatos, the death instincts which has a compulsion to destroy

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What is cathexis? Where is it present?

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It is the allocation of mental energy to a person, object or event

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Why is Freud’s theory pessimist?

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Because he believes that without laws the world would kill itself and that everything bad in us is repressed.

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According to Freud, why are there individuals differences?

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Because people differ in their ego mechanisms, which controls expression of primitive forces of personality

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According to Freud, what prevents our true personalities from showing?

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Defense mechanisms

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According to Freud, what is mental health?

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The ability to love and to work by overcoming psychological conflict

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According to Freud, what are cognitive processes?

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The conscious experiences often cannot be trusted because of distortions.

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According to Freud, do thoughts = behaviors?

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No

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According to Freud, what is culture?

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All societies have culture that deal with conflict and leads to repression of natural desires.

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According to Freud, what is the purpose of the church?

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To be used to defend ourselves against bad feelings

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According to Freud, what are the biological influences of personality?

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Genetic provides a basis for personality.

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According to Freud, are dreams and mental illnesses only part of the mind?

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No, they are part of the body

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How did Freud discover the unconscious?

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By working with Anna O, who had somatic symptoms caused by a traumatic event that changed her nervous system and caused her anxiety

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What is the topological model?

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  1. Conscious mind: current thoughts
  2. Preconscious mind: thoughts that could be accessible
  3. Unconscious mind: thoughts that cannot be easily reached
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What are the three component of the structural model?

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  1. id
  2. Ego
  3. Superego
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What is the ID?

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Part of the mind driven by pleasure principle that can be very cruel. This part is fully unconscious

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What part of the mind is the primary processing thinking system?

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ID

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When does the id emerge?

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At birth

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What is the ego?

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Part driven by the reality principle, higher level processing that considers all possibilities and excludes constraints.

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What is the role of the ego?

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To keep id impulses unconscious because they are not socially acceptable

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What part of the structural model is the secondary thinking process?

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The ego

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What is the superego?

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Part that internalizes values and what is acceptable.

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At what age does the ego develop?

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By 2y

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Which part of the structural model is the most conscious (but still takes digging)?

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Superego

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At what age does the superego develop?

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5y

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What power does the superego have?

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Power to punish and create guilt

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What are the three types of conflict between the structural model?

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  1. Reality anxiety
  2. Neurotic anxiety
  3. Moral anxiety
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What is reality anxiety?

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Anxiety caused by tangible problem

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What is neurotic anxiety?

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Anxiety created by conflict between id and ego, where ego tries to manage id’s impulses but cannot find a solution

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What is moral anxiety?

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Conflict between id and superego where superego represses id which creates guilt and shame

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What are the 8 defense mechanisms?

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  1. Repression
  2. Sublimation
  3. Displacement
  4. Denial
  5. Reaction formation
  6. intellectualization
  7. Projection
  8. Regression
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What is repression?

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The most important and common defense mechanism, when the active effect of the ego, pushes threatening thoughts out of consciousness. However, it takes a lot of energy and effort

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What is sublimation?

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When the ego channels threatening unconscious id impulses into socially acceptable activities (e.g. martial arts). Only truly successful defense mechanism.

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What is displacement?

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Channeling impulses to a non-threatening object, without social rewards (unlike sublimation). Redirecting anger

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What is denial?

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Refusing to accept a certain fact, insisting on the opposite despite knowing it.

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What is reaction formation?

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Hiding from threatening unconscious ideas by acting in opposite manner

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What is intellectualization?

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Process of removing emotional content from the thought before allowing it into awareness, to remove anxiety

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What is projection?

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Attribution of a disturbing impulse to someone else

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What is regression?

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Retreat to an earlier period of life

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What are the psychosexual stages of development?

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They are stages characterized by their primary erogenous zones and sexual desires

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What happens if there is a lack of resolution for a conflict within a stage?

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Fixation

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What causes a fixation?

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Excessive frustration or gratification

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What is the oral stage?

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0-18m, primary erogenous zone = mouth, lip and tongue. Feeding issue → fixation → oral personality (drinking, overeating, talkative)

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According to Freud, what age the most important ages?

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0-5y

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What is the anal stage?

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18m-3y, primary erogenous zone = anal region, when infants are potty-trained. However, traumatic toilet event → fixation → anal personality. Severe parenting = stubborn, perfectionist or negligent parenting = messy and disorganized

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What is the phallic stage?

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3-6y, primary erogenous zone = penis or clitoris, infants develop Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to opposite-sex parent. Boys develop castration fear and girls penis envy

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What is the latency period?

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6y-puberty, period of disinterest in sexual desires

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What is the genital stage?

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Puberty onwards, primary erogenous zone = adult genital, time of sexual maturity (if all stages happen correctly)

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What can extreme parenting led to?

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Fixation, which is an internalization of a childhood event

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What are 7 ways to reveal unconscious thoughts according to Freud?

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  1. Dreams (provide id impulses, a stage for expression)
  2. Projective tests (assess unconscious materials by asking test takers to respond to ambiguous stimuli)
  3. Free association: temporary bypassing censoring ego
  4. Hypnosis
  5. Symbolic behaviors (daily behaviors = unconscious mind)
  6. Accidents
  7. Freudian slip

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