Psychodynamic Approach - APPROACHES

Question 1

who focused on the ‘unconscious mind’

Answer 1

Freud

Question 2

what was the name of the focus of Freud’s studies

Answer 2

‘the unconscious mind’

Question 3

what did Freud believe

Answer 3

part of your mind is inaccessible to conscious thought, and only some of it is accessible to that

Question 4

names of the parts of the mind that you can’t interact with (Freud)

Answer 4

preconscious and unconscious

Question 5

how did Freud illustrate his idea of the states of the mind

Answer 5

through an iceberg diagram

Question 6

if the brain is in a ‘crisis’ what happens

Answer 6

it flips (unconscious becomes conscious)

Question 7

why do we do bad things when the mind has decided it’s in a crisis

Answer 7

the unconscious (Id) becomes conscious so pleasure (selfish, fear, lust) is the decision maker

Question 8

sections of iceberg

Answer 8

conscious: choice, knowledge - ego, superego
preconscious: memory - superego, id
unconscious: fears, desires, guilt - id

Question 9

list our “drives”

Answer 9

ego
superego
id

Question 10

which sections of the iceberg can ego access

Answer 10

above level (conscious)

Question 11

which sections of the iceberg can superego access

Answer 11

all access: above level (conscious), just below level (preconscious) and the bottom (unconscious)

Question 12

which sections of the iceberg can id access

Answer 12

the bottom part (unconscious)

Question 13

what drives our id

Answer 13

pleasure: selfish, fear, anger, lust

Question 14

what drives our ego

Answer 14

reality: logic, compromise, reason

Question 15

what drives our superego

Answer 15

morality: guilt, consciousness

Question 16

what did Freud say the brain does in order to protect the mind

Answer 16

it stops harmful thoughts/memories from becoming conscious

Question 17

what is the name for the brain stopping harmful thoughts/memories from becoming conscious

Answer 17

defence mechanism

Question 18

what’s the name when the unconscious lets something through to the conscious

Answer 18

a “Freudian slip”

Question 19

how do the three components of our mind designed to be

Answer 19

separate, independent entities that think and feel

they try to defend themselves against damage/pain

Question 20

four types of defense mechanisms

Answer 20

repression, denial, displacement, minimisation

Question 21

what is repression

Answer 21

“bottling it up”

Question 22

what is denial

Answer 22

pretending there is no problem

Question 23

what is displacement

Answer 23

taking it on another, usually similar, person/object

Question 24

what is minimisation

Answer 24

telling yourself it’s not as big a deal as it really is