psychodynamic approach

Question 1

What is our conscious mind known as

Answer 1

The tip of the iceberg

Question 2

What is most of our mond made up of and what is it

Answer 2

Unconscious -vast storehouse of biological drives

Question 3

What does our unconscious mind contain

Answer 3

Threatening and disturbing memories which have repressed and forgotten

Question 4

How can our unconscious be accessed

Answer 4

Through dreams and parapraxes

Question 5

What is parapraxes

Answer 5

Slip of tongue

Question 6

How does Freud describe personality

Answer 6

Tripartite

Question 7

What is the precocious

Answer 7

Bubbling under the surface of our conscious mind
Thoughts and memories currently not in the conscious awareness but can be accessed if desired

Question 8

What is Id

Answer 8

Is the primitive part of our personality operates PLEASURE PRINCIPLE and gets what it wants. It is a seething mass of unconscious and instinct. Needs demand gratification of what it wants . Id is present at birth

Question 9

What is Ego

Answer 9

Is the reality principle which mediates between the two personality’s . Develops atound age of 2 and REDUCES conflict between id and superego. Manages this by employing demand characteristics

Question 10

What is superego

Answer 10

Is formed at the end of the phallic stage at 5 years old. It internalise the sense of right and wrong doings based on moralistic principles. Punishes the ego for it its wrongdoings through guilt

Question 11

What are psychosexual stages

Answer 11

Five development stages that all children pass through
Each stage there’s different conflict the outcome of determines future development

Question 12

What is the first stage

Answer 12

Oral stage 0-1 year
Focus of pleasure is the mouth mothers breast are object of desire

Question 13

What is consequence of unresolved conflict of oral stage

Answer 13

Oral fixation- smoking biting nails sarcastic critical

Question 14

What is the 2nd stage

Answer 14

Anal 1-3
Focus of pleasure is the anal
Child gains pleasure in withholding and expelling faeces

Question 15

What is the unresolved consequence of anal stage

Answer 15

Anal retentive -perfectionist and obsessive

Anal expulsion - thoughtless and messy

Question 16

What is the phallic stage

Answer 16

3-6 years
Focus pleasure on genital area.
Child experiences Oedipus and electra complex

Question 17

What is the consequence of unresolved conflict in the phallic stage

Answer 17

Phallic personality - narcissistic, reckless possibly homosexual

Question 18

What is the 4th stage

Answer 18

Latency - earlier conflicts are repressed

Question 19

What is 5th stage

Answer 19

Genital - sexual desire more conscious alongside onset puberty

Question 20

What is a consequence of unresolved conflict

Answer 20

Difficult to form heterosexual relationship

Question 21

What are defence mechanism

Answer 21

Unconscious strategy that ego use to manage conflict between id and superego

Question 22

Why are defence mechanism problematic

Answer 22

Distort reality and psychologically unhealthy and undesirable

Question 23

What are three defence mechanism

Answer 23

Repression
Denial
Displacement

Question 24

What is repression

Answer 24

Forcing a distressed memory out of conscious mind

Question 25

What is denial

Answer 25

Refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality

Question 26

What is displacement

Answer 26

Transferring feeling of through source of distress on a substitute target

Question 27

What is the Oedipus complex

Answer 27

Boys have murderous for their rival in love - father

Question 28

How is Oedipus complex supported

Answer 28

Little Hans case study .
Hans was five year old boy who developed phobia of horses when he saw one collapse on the street. Freud suggested his phobia was a form of displacement in which is repressed feelings of his father was transferred into horse . This horses were merely a symbolic representation of Hans unconscious fear - the fear of castration experienced during Oedipus concept