Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud)

Question 1

Drives, urges, and instincts that are beyond awareness

Answer 1

Unconscious

Question 2

Motivates most of our words, feelings, and actions

Answer 2

Unconscious

Question 3

Explanation for the meaning behind dreams

Answer 3

Unconscious

Question 4

Often enter the consciousness only after being disguised or distorted

Answer 4

Unconscious

Question 5

Unconscious images must be disguised to get past through this

Answer 5

Primary Censor

Question 6

Watches the passageway that connects the preconscious and the conscious

Answer 6

Final Censor

Question 7

Create feelings of anxiety and then simulates repression

Answer 7

Punishment and suppression

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Repression

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Phylogenetic endowment

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Preconscious

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Conscious perception

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Conscious perception

Question 13

Plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory

Answer 13

Conscious

Question 14

Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

Answer 14

Conscious

Question 15

The only level of mental life directly available to us.

Answer 15

Conscious

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Perceptual conscious

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Mental structure

Question 18

Is at the core personality and is completely unconscious

Answer 18

Id (Das es)

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Id (Das Es)

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Pleasure Principle

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Ego (Das Ich)

Question 22

Is also known as the “Reality Principle”

Answer 22

Ego (Das Ich)

Question 23

Decision Making; executive branch of personality

Answer 23

Ego (Das Ich)

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Superego (Uber Ich)

Question 25

It has no energy of its own and grows out of the ego

Answer 25

Superego (Uber Ich)

Question 26

It has no contact to the outside world, thus an unrealistic demand for perfection

Answer 26

Superego (Uber ich)

Question 27

Also known as the “Morality principle”

Answer 27

Superego (Uber ich)

Question 28

Tells us what we should not do based from experiences with punishment for improper behavior

Answer 28

Conscience

Question 29

Develops from experiences with rewards for proper behavior

Answer 29

Ego-ideal