Psychodynamic Approach

Question 1

Who made the psychodynamic Approach

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud

Question 2

What does psychodynamics theory demonstrate

Answer 2

How important the early life childhood experiences that develop into adulthood.

Question 3

Continue the sentence Most of our mind is made up of the unconscious

Answer 3

a
vast storehouse of biological drives and instincts that has a significant influence on our behaviour and personality.
Just bubbling under the surface of our consciou

Question 4

Name some defence mechanisms

Answer 4

repression, denial, displacement

Question 5

Role of the unconscious

Answer 5

The underlying unconscious drive is sexual

Question 6

Name the first stage a child goes through durning development

Answer 6

Oral

Question 7

Name the second stage a child goes through durning development

Answer 7

Anal

Question 8

Name the third stage a child goes through durning development

Answer 8

Phallic

Question 9

If a child doesn’t complete a developmental stage in the correct time span what can occur

Answer 9

They could get fixed on that stage and continue it throughout the rest of their life as in bringing it to adulthood

Question 10

What is the Tripartite

Answer 10

Id ego super ego

Question 11

What is the Id

Answer 11

The earliest part of the human personality-THE ID=unconscious focuses on self , irrational and emotional, deals with feelings and needs, seeks pleasure/hedonistic (pleasure principle)
Present at birth-18 months Motivated by the pleasure principle

Question 12

What is the Ego

Answer 12

The 2nd part of the personality -THE EGO (the ‘self’) rational,conscious part of the mind formed between 18 months - 3 years Motivated by the reality principle tries to balance out the id and superego

Question 13

What is the superego

Answer 13

The 3rd part of the personality THE SUPEREGO unconscious acts as the conscience or moral guide, based on parental and societal values. Formed between 3 - 6 years.Motivated by the morality principle

Question 14

Define denial

Answer 14

This happens when a person refuses to accept that an event has happened.

When something traumatic happens which would be hard to deal with, the person denies that it has happened at all. This is not a CONSCIOUS process, the person will not realise they are ‘in denial’.

Question 15

Define displacement

Answer 15

If something upsets us we take the anger out on something else

Question 16

Define representation

Answer 16

It is as if they are forgotten – or at least not remembered. It is more a case of motivated forgetting, but this is not done consciously.

Question 17

What is the edipus complex

Answer 17

Someone wanting to shag their mum because of an insecurity of their farther (or siblings)