psychodynamic

Question 1

conscious thoughts

Answer 1

aware of

Question 2

preconscious thoughts

Answer 2

thoughts we can access

Question 3

unconscious thoughts

Answer 3

unaware of
affects behaviour and personality

Question 4

where do unconscious thoughts come out?

Answer 4

dreams, behaviour, Freudian slips

Question 5

ID?

Answer 5

•present at birth
•works on pleasure principle
•concerned with wants/desires

Question 6

Ego?

Answer 6

•develops at 2
•tries to balance demands of ID and Superego

Question 7

superego?

Answer 7

•develops at about
•concerned with what’s right and wrong (morality principle)
•develops in response to Oedipus and Electra complex

Question 8

what is important development through psychosexual stages important for?

Answer 8

essential for healthy personality in adulthood

Question 9

what happens if there is trauma in any of the psychosexual stages?

Answer 9

fixation - they get stuck in that stage, apparent in adulthood personality

Question 10

psychosexual stage orders:

Answer 10

oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital

Question 11

evaluation of psychodynamic

Answer 11

+ research support (little Hans)
+ practical application (psychotherapy)
- flaws with research support - one person (can’t generalise)
- subjective theory
- non-falsifiable (abstract concepts/can’t test)

Question 12

defence mechanisms?

Answer 12

•denial
•repression
•displacement

Question 13

what is denial?

Answer 13

refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality

Question 14

what is repression?

Answer 14

automatically pushing a memory or unpleasant thought to the back of your mind

Question 15

what is displacement?

Answer 15

emotions are directed away from target source and targeted towards to something else