psychodynamic approach - 'behaviour can be influenced by the unconsious mind'

Question 1

describe the conscious mind

Answer 1

thoughts we are aware of, smallest part of ‘iceberg’ brain, perceptions e.g rational and logical thoughts

Question 2

describe the pre conscious mind

Answer 2

what could be conscious if we took effort to access, memories, knowledge

Question 3

describe the unconscious mind

Answer 3

cannot be accessed, thoughts, feeling that influence out behaviour but we are not aware of, biggest part of mind, most influential

Question 4

what is regression

Answer 4

the abandonment of age appropriate coping strategies, reverting to child like patterns of behaviour - retreating to a time where a person feels safe

Question 5

what is repression

Answer 5

pushing out bad experiences or emotions into the unconscious so you no longer have to think about them, you can no longer remember the event

Question 6

what is displacement

Answer 6

transferring undesirable impulses from one person to an object or another person e.g getting mad and someone and punching a wall

Question 7

what is projection

Answer 7

undesirable thoughts or emotions attributed to someone else, conscience thinks it is unacceptable for YOU to feel it so projects it onto someone else e.g someone who has a bad temper complains that someone else gets angry easily

Question 8

describe the example for the ‘unconscious mind’ assumption

Answer 8

it is schizophrenia. people who believe in the psychodynamic approach think that conflict in the unconscious mind causes schizophrenia symptoms like delusions or hallucinations. e.g a fixation in the oral stage is created in childhood, in adulthood, when they experience too much stress, they REGRESS back to the oral stage, but here the ego is not fully formed, leaving the ID to run free, explaining things like voices in your head telling you to do things like stealing things you want