Psychodynamic & Humanistic Approach

Question 1

What is the ID? (4)

Answer 1

• Born with the ID—develops first.
• Instructive part of the Personality—very demanding!
• An infant will demand for its needs to be satisfied.
• ID works on the pleasure principle.

Question 2

What is the EGO? (5)

Answer 2

• This develops after the ID.
• Rational part of the personality, because it woks on reality principles.
• To satisfy ID—to gibe it what it wants, but in a realistic way.

Question 3

What is the SUPEREGO? (6)

Answer 3

• Develops last.
• Ego is still developing. It’s there to satisfy the ID and SUPEREGO.
• Works on morality principles.
• “You Can’t Have That!”
• SUPEREGO is your conscious given to you by your parents, roles, and society.

Question 4

What are Defense Mechanisms used For?

Answer 4

They are used to relieve psychic tension.

Question 5

What is Repression?

Answer 5

An explanation for forgetting. Example, abuse. Repression pulls information to the unconscious mind. Protect the conscious. However, information can be pulled up to the preconscious part—PTSD.

Question 6

What is Denial?

Answer 6

Refusing to accept the unpleasant information. Protects the conscious mind. Recall issue hasn’t gone away.

Question 7

What is Displacement?

Answer 7

Transferring feelings on an innocent target. Letting out the negativity on someone. Explanation for aggressive crimes.

Question 8

What is the First Stage of the Psychosexual Stages of Development?

Answer 8

Oral Stage (0–1y.o.)
Focus of pleasure is the moth. Child is being breast fed.

Question 9

What are the Fixations in the Oral Stage?

Answer 9

Smoking, biting nails, and critical.

Question 10

What Develops after the Oral Stage?

Answer 10

Anal Stage (1–3y.o.)
Focus of pleasure is the anus. Child gets pleasure from how they’re using the anus.
The child can please or unpleased their parents with their anus.

Question 11

What are the Fixations in the Anal Stage?

Answer 11

Anal Retentive—perfectionist and obsessive.
Anal Expulsive—thoughtless and messy.

Question 12

What Develops After the Anal Stage?

Answer 12

Phallic Stage (3–6y.o.)
Focus of pleasure is the genitals.

Question 13

What is the Oedipus Complex?

Answer 13

Little boy has sexual desires for mother. This creates conflict in the unconscious mind, because the mother is in a relationship with the father.

The boy experiences castration anxi