Psychodynamic Processes

Question 1

What is the first level of the mind

Answer 1

The conscious level

Question 2

What is the second level of the mind

Answer 2

The preconscious level

Question 3

What is the third level of the mind

Answer 3

The unconscious level

Question 4

What is the unconscious level

Answer 4

All feelings, thoughts, urges and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness and most of these are unpleasant such as pain anxiety or conflict

Question 5

How does the unconscious level affect us

Answer 5

It influences our behaviour even though we are not aware of it such as the unconscious mind repressing problems

Question 6

How does the unconscious level affect our dreams

Answer 6

Many repressed problems will appear in dreams

Question 7

What is the preconscious mind

Answer 7

Consists of anything that could be brought into the conscious mind, most of our memories about ourselves are our lives are preconscious. It suggests that we are able to explain and remember the content of dreams

Question 8

What is the conscious mind

Answer 8

It contains all thoughts, memories, feelings and wishes that we are aware of at anytime. This is the aspect that we can think and talk about rationally

Question 9

What is an ID

Answer 9

The primitive and instinctive component of our personality
It is the impulsive and unconscious part of our psyche that responds directly and immediately to our impulses
It operates on pleasure and that every wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately regardless of consequences

Question 10

What happens to our ID during sleep

Answer 10

It becomes dominant and reveals itself in dreams. This means that any unconscious desires are revealed

Question 11

What is our superego

Answer 11

The superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learned from caregivers and others

Question 12

When do we develop our superego

Answer 12

Between ages of 3 and 5

Question 13

What is the superegos primary function

Answer 13

To control the ID’s impulses which are undesirable such as aggression

Question 14

What happens to the superego during sleep

Answer 14

It cannot control the ID because we are in a altered state of consciousness

Question 15

What is the ego

Answer 15

The ego is developed to mediate between the unrealistic ID and the external world. It is the decision making component of our personality

Question 16

How does the ego opperate

Answer 16

It operates based on the reality principle which is working out realistic ways to meet the ID’s demands to avoid negative consequences

Question 17

What happens to the ego during sleep

Answer 17

It transforms our unconscious desires into symbols to protect us from the anxiety produced by dreams

Question 18

What is wish fulfilment

Answer 18

Dreams are thought to be a form of fulfilling repressed wishes. We dream about what we want especially about things we are unable to attain in real life

Question 19

What are the two features of dreams

Answer 19

The manifest content and the latent content

Question 20

What is the manifest content

Answer 20

The story of the dream

Question 21

What is the latent content

Answer 21

The underlying meaning of the dream that hides behind the manifest content

Question 22

What is repression

Answer 22

This is an unconscious mechanism employed by the go to keep disturbing thoughts from becoming conscious

Question 23

What is secondary elaboration

Answer 23

When a dreamer retells a dream with additional information to make their dream more meaningful or leave out embarrassing information

Question 24

What is displacement

Answer 24

When something unimportant is brought to prominence to shift attention away from what is really important