Psychodynamic Approach Flashcards
What does the psychodynamic approach suggest about behavior?
A significant portion of our behavior is influenced by unconscious processes.
What are the three levels of Freud’s model of the mind?
- Conscious
- Preconscious
- Unconscious
What is the function of the conscious mind?
Consists of thoughts, feelings and perceptions that are currently within our awareness. Includes immediate awareness
Allows for rational thinking, decision-making, and awareness of external reality.
What does the preconscious mind contain?
Thoughts, memories, and knowledge that are not currently conscious but can be easily retrieved.
It facilitates the retrieval of memories, information, and past experiences into consciousness plays a role in everyday functioning.
What is the primary characteristic of the unconscious mind?
Largest and most influential part of the mind.
It contains repressed thoughts, desires, memories, and emotions beyond conscious awareness.
What principle does the unconscious mind operate according to?
The pleasure principle, seeking gratification of instinctual drives and desires influences behaviour without conscious awareness.
What is Psychic Determinism?
The concept that unconscious processes significantly shape thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
What are the three components of Freud’s tripartite model of personality?
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
What does the id seek?
The primitive and instinctual part of the mind operates on immediate gratification of its needs, desires, and impulses.
Unconscious and present from birth, instant gratification with care for consequences, driven by biological drives and source of psychic energy (libido).
How does the ego function?
Mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and the external world.
What is the role of the superego?
Represents internalised societal and parental standards and ideals.
At what age does the superego begin to form?
Around the age of five or six.
What are the two components of the superego?
- Conscience
- Ego-ideal
Fill in the blank: The id operates on the _______.
[pleasure principle]
True or False: The ego seeks to satisfy the id’s desires in an unrealistic way.
False
What are defense mechanisms according to Freudian theory?
Psychological strategies that unconsciously protect individuals from anxiety.
What do Freud’s psychosexual stages describe?
Developmental phases where pleasure-seeking energies focus on erogenous zones.
What is the largest part of the mind according to Freudian theory?
The unconscious mind.
How does the unconscious mind influence behavior?
Through repressed thoughts and desires that can manifest in dreams and behaviors.
What can unresolved conflicts in the unconscious lead to?
Psychological symptoms and neuroses.
What is the source of psychic energy in the id?
Libido.
Freudian slips
Repressed thoughts and desires can manifest in slips of the tongue
