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Basic assumptions of psychodynamic app

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. Unconscious activity is the key determinate of how we behave
. We posses innate drives (instincts) that motivate behaviour
. Tripartite personality comprised of ID superego and ego
. Childhood has sig importance in determining our personality when we reach adult hood
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What is the unconscious

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Storehouse of biological drives
Eg Sex hunger sleep
Holds repressed and threatening memeories
Can access these through parapraxes
It’s the driving motivation force behind behaviour and personality
Protects conscious mind from trauma and conflict

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Describe ID

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Pleasure principle
Driving us to satisfy selfish urges and desires
Exists form birth

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Describe superego

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Morality principle
Concerned wiht keeping to moral norms and acting in line with societal standards
Develops from years 4-5
Controls ID w feelings of guilt

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Describe ego

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Acts rationally
According to reality principle
Balancing ID and Superego
Develops 2-4 years
Utilises defence mech to handle conflict bet ID and super ego

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What can ego using defense mechanisms over time lead to

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Can lead to mental disorders
Distorting reality

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3 defense mech

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Repression
Displacement
Denial

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define repression

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Burying unpleasant thoughts
Eg childhood trauma repressed so
Forgotten

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Define displacement and give example

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Emotions directed away from source toward other things
Eg punching the wall

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define denial and give example

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threataning thoughts ignored or treated as if its not true eg businessman looses business over financial issues but still gets ready for work as if everything is ok.

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who came up w psychosexual stages

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sigmund freud

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backround on psychosexual stages

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frued interested on infant sexuality in child dev

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what case study did freud focus on and what did is play a key role in

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little hans
key role in odedipus complex and castration complex

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what did freud think personality dev through

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5 psychosexual stages which we progress through
each stage w a particular characteristic beh

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name 5 psychosexual stages and the age ranges for each

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oral 0 - 18 months
anal 18 months - 3.5 years
phallic 3.5 - 6 years
latency 6 years - puberty
genital puberty onwards

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what does freud think is the most important driving force in dev

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expressing sexual energy - libido

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why do individuals expirence tension (freud)

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as a result of built up sexual energy whereby pleasure comes its discharge

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what is a paraprax

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slip of tounge / freudian slip

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descibe oral stage

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0-18 months
sucking beh during breastfeeding
when ID dev
conflict occurs if weaning begins too early

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what occurs in weaning begins to early during phallic stage

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conflict - can lead to manipulative personality
always chewing gum
addiction

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describe anal stage

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18 months - 3.5 years
pleasure from holding/discarding faeces
and when potty training occurs
if child shouted at they become controlling and obey authority
if child neglected they become messy and disorganised
leads to anally retentive or anally explosive personality

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describe phallic stage

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3.5 - 6 years
fixation on genitals
oedipus complex and castration anxiety occurs
penis envy in females
superego formed during this stage after resolvind oedipus complex via identification w father

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describe latency stage

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age 6 till puberty
super ego strengthens
no real conflict
accumlation prev 3 stages
ego develops age 7 years and onwards

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when does ego deva

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age 7 onwards

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describe genetial stage

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awakened sexual urges
desires to fit into society occur here

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what is fixation

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if during dev becoming fixated/stuck on one stage would restrict full dev
results in displaying specific personality symptom eg anally retentive
so they display certain stages of the stage theyre stucjk on even in adult life

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what is anally retentive

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is one such symptom – he proposed that when conflict occurs over potty training, a person could become fixated on cleanliness and orderliness to an extreme.

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defense mech purpose

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helps ego decrease anxiety from constant confict superego and ID

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what stage does oedipus complex dev in

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during phallic stage
3.5 years - 6 years

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describe oedipus complex

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during phallic stage
aged 3/4 young boy begins to desire mother and compete for her attention
father = rival - wishes he was dead
creates anxiety - fears father will castrate him

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how is oedipus complex resolved

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via boy idenfying w his father
- takes on gender roles and moral values
superego is then formed

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descibe electra complex

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girl desires her father and realises she doesn’t have a penis creating penis envy and desire to be a boy / desire for her father
little girls then blame mum for castrated state causing tension

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who proposed electra complex and during what stage does it occur

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carl jung
phallic stage

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how is electra complex resolved

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feelings repressed to remove tension
instead girl identifies w mother and internalises gender identify with mothers gender identity so that it becomes her own
replaces desire for penis with desire for baby

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what is pre concious

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contains thoughts and mem which are not currently in concious awarness but we can access if we desire

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what is anally explosive

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thoughtless messy disorganised

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how did freud support oedipus complex

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little hans
boy saw horse fall over and had fear of horses
freud says he displaced his fear of father on horse