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Psychodynamic approach Flashcards

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What are the key assumptions of the psychodynamic approach?

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Unconscious forces operate on the mind and influence our behaviour, most unconscious forces and drives are innate and control or determine our behaviour so all we say and do has a cause and some unconscious forces develop during childhood and effect our behaviour

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How many parts are there to our conscious?

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3

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What are the parts to our conscious?

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Conscious, preconscious and unconscious

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What determines our behaviour?

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Unconscious forces which is psychic determinism

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What are the 3 parts to our personality?

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ID, ego and superego

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What part of our consciousness is the ID?

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The unconscious

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What part of our consciousness is the ego?

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Preconscious

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What part of the consciousness is the superego?

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The conscious

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What principle is the ID?

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The pleasure principle

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When does the ID develop?

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It is present from birth

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What does the ID do?

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It demands immediate gratification regardless of the situation and this results in pleasure and frustration leads to tension

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What principle is the ego?

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The reality principle

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When does the ego develop?

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At about 2 years old

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What does the ego do?

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It delays gratifying the ID until a more appropriate opportunity and must compromise between impulsive demands of the ID and moralistic demands of superego

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What principle is the superego?

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The morality principle

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When does the superego develop?

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At about 4-5 years old

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What does the superego do?

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It is the internalised idea of right and wrong based off moral standards of the child’s sam-sex parent which produces feeling of guilt for wrongdoing, also includes an ego-ideal of how we should behave

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What are defences mechanisms?

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They help the ego manage the demand of the ID and superego

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What do defences mechanisms do?

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They unconsciously distort reality but if over-used, they become psychologically unhealthy and desirable

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How many types of defence mechanisms are there?

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3

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What are the 3 types of defence mechanisms?

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Repression, denial and displacement

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What is repression?

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Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind

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What is denial?

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Refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality

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What is displacement?

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Transferring the feelings from the true source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target

25
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What are the psychosexual stages?

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Oral, anal, phallic and genital

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Which psychosexual stage is the ID?

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Oral

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Which psychosexual stage is the ego?

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Anal

28
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Which psychosexual stage is the superego?

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Phallic

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When is the oral stage?

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0-1

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What is the oral stage?

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The focus of pleasure is the mouth and breastfeeding

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What is the consequence of an unresolved oral conflict?

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Oral fixation - smoking, biting nails, being sarcastic and being critical

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When is the anal stage?

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1-3

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What is the anal stage?

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The focus of pleasure is the anus where pleasure is gained from withholding and expelling faeces

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What are the consequences of an unresolved anal conflict?

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Being anally retentive - obsessive perfectionist or being anally expulsive - thoughtless and messy

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When is the phallic stage?

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3-6

36
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What is the phallic stage?

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Focus of pleasure is the genital area

37
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What are the consequences of an unresolved phallic conflict?

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Phallic personality - narcissistic, reckless and sexual anxiety

38
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When does the latency stage occur?

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6 to puberty

39
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What is the latency stage?

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Earlier conflicts are repressed

40
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When is the genital stage?

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Puberty onwards

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What is the genital stage?

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Sexual desires become conscious

42
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What is the consequence of an unresolved genital conflict?

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Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships

43
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What i the oedipus complex?

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When a child is in love with their parent of the opposite sex and hates or wants to kill the parent of same sex

44
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What are the causes of an oral fixation?

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Early weaning and deprivation of love or food

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What are the causes of an anal fixation?

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Harsh or lax toilet training

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What are the causes of a phallic fixation?

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A very dominant mother and no father figure

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