Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud) Flashcards

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Drives, urges, and instincts that are beyond awareness

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Unconscious

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Motivates most of our words, feelings, and actions

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Unconscious

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3
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Explanation for the meaning behind dreams

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Unconscious

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4
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Often enter the consciousness only after being disguised or distorted

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Unconscious

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5
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Unconscious images must be disguised to get past through this

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Primary Censor

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Watches the passageway that connects the preconscious and the conscious

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Final Censor

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Create feelings of anxiety and then simulates repression

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Punishment and suppression

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Forcing of unwanted anxiety-ridden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against the pain of that anxiety

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Repression

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Experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generation of repetition.

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Phylogenetic endowment

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10
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Not in the conscious but can become conscious either quire readily or with difficulty

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Preconscious

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Perception is just conscious for a transitory period. It shifts to preconscious when the focus of attention shifts to another idea.

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Conscious perception

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It is free from anxiety and is much more similar to conscious images.

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Conscious perception

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13
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Plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory

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Conscious

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14
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Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

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Conscious

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15
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The only level of mental life directly available to us.

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Conscious

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16
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Turned toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perception of external stimuli. What we perceive enters consciousness if it is not too threatening.

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Perceptual conscious

17
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Includes non-threatening ideas from the preconscious as well as menacing but well disguised images from the unconscious.

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Mental structure

18
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Is at the core personality and is completely unconscious

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Id (Das es)

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It has no contact with reality, yet it strives constantly to reduce tension by satisfying basic desires

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Id (Das Es)

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Is also known as the “Pleasure Principle” or aside from being unrealistic and pleasure seeking, it is illogical and can simultaneously entertain incompatible ideas

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Pleasure Principle

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The only region of the mind in contact with reality or it grows out of the id during infancy and becomes a person’s sole source of communication with the external world

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Ego (Das Ich)

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Is also known as the “Reality Principle”

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Ego (Das Ich)

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Decision Making; executive branch of personality

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Ego (Das Ich)

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Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality and is guided by the moralistic and idealistic principles

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Superego (Uber Ich)

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It has no energy of its own and grows out of the ego
Superego (Uber Ich)
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It has no contact to the outside world, thus an unrealistic demand for perfection
Superego (Uber ich)
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Also known as the "Morality principle"
Superego (Uber ich)
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Tells us what we should not do based from experiences with punishment for improper behavior
Conscience
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Develops from experiences with rewards for proper behavior
Ego-ideal
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