Psychodynamic

Question 1

What does it highlight

Answer 1

Importance of the unconscious mind behaviour and experience

Question 2

What does the unconscious contain

Answer 2

The drive of our behaviours,repressed memories

Question 3

What are repressed memories

Answer 3

Memories that disturb us that can be accessed through dreams or slips of the tongue

Question 4

Preconcious

Answer 4

Contains thoughts and memories that we can access if wanted

Question 5

3 parts of personality

Answer 5

ID- pleasure principle, instinctual desires
Ego- reality principle, defence mechanisms
Superego- morality principle,sense of right and wrong moral

Question 6

what is defence mechanism

Answer 6

Unconscious strategies to prevent being overwhelmed by trauma however distort reality

Question 7

What are some defence mechanisms

Answer 7

Repression-ignoring certain events
Denial- blocking out the trauma
Displacement- placing a trauma into something else eg little hans fear of horses was actually castration

Question 8

5 psychosexual stages

Answer 8

Oral 0-1, mothers breast mouth
Anal 1-3- pleasure from anus
Phallic 3-5 pleasure from genitals
Latency earlier conflicts repressed leading to fixations
Genital sexual desires due to puberty

Question 9

Oedipus complex

Answer 9

Boys develop feelings towards mother and hatred for father eg castration fear of balls cut off

Question 10

Electra complex

Answer 10

Girls desire there father and hate mother(penis envy) which later on becomes desire for a baby

Question 11

Benefit

Answer 11

Human benefit through therapy psychoanalysis

Question 12

Limitation

Answer 12

Psychic determinism, everything is driven by unconscious so free will is illusive