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What is the conscious mind?

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The small amount of small mental activity that we know about

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What is the unconscious mind?

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Things we are aware of and can’t beware of

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What is dream analysis?

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‘The royal road to the unconscious’ (manifest and latent content)

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What is free association?

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Exploring unconscious but spontaneous word association

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What are Rochards ink blocks?

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Subjects are recorded and analysed using psychological interpretation

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What is the structure of the personality?

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Freud’s personality theory saw the pysche structured into three parts

  • ID
  • Super Ego
  • Ego
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What is the ID?

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The pleasure seeking part of the personality

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What is the Ego?

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The sensible and logical part of the personality

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What is the super ego?

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Really uptight,usually developed through the same sex parent. Punishes the ego

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Who came up with the psychodynamic theory?

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Freud

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Name 3 ways in which the unconscious motivations can be assessed?

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Dream analysis
Free association
Ink Blots

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Name one way in which Freud theory can be said to be unscientific?

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Hasn’t got any evidence
Totally subjective
No scientific methodology

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What was the determinism in how you act due to unconscious drives?

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Psychic Determinism

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What object can the unconscious and conscious mind be compared to? And why?

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Iceberg

Most of your unconscious motivations are underneath the surface

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How does the ego balance potential conflict between the ID and the super ego, and try to reduce anxiety?

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Defence Mechanisms

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When does your unconscious develop?

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Childhood

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What is Oedipus Complex?

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When the boy wants his mother as his primary ‘love object’ and his father out of the way

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What are the psychosexual stages?

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The oral stage
The anal stage
The Phallic stage
The latency stage
Genital stage
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What is the age range for the oral stage?

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0-1 years

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What is the Erogenous Zone for the oral stage?

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Mouth

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What are the consequences of unresolved conflict of the oral stage?

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Orally aggressive

Orally Receptive

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What are the features of being orally aggressive?

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Hostile

Verbally abusive to others

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What are the features of being Orally Retentive?

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Possessive
Needy
Sensitive to rejection

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What age range is the Anal Stage?

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1-3 years approx

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What Erogenous Zone is the Anal Stage?

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Anus

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What are the consequences of unresolved conflict in the anal stage?

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Anal Retentive

Anal Expulsive

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What are the features to being Anal Retentive?

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  • compulsive seeking order to be tidy
  • stubborn
  • perfectionist
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What are the features to being Anal Expulsive?

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  • opposite of retentive
  • careless
  • messy
  • lack of control
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What age range is the phallic stage?

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3-5 years approx

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What Erogenous Zone is the Phallic Stage?

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Genitalia

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What is the Electra Complex?

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  • Girls experience penis envy

- They desire their father as the penis is the primary love object and want their mother gone

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What age range is the latency stage?

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6 to puberty

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What Erogenous Zone is the Latency stage?

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Dormant Sexual Feelings

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What age range is the Genital Stage?

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Puberty to adulthood

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What erogenous zone is the genital stage?

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Genitals but not to same extent as phallic stage.

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What are the consequences of unresolved conflict in the genital stage?

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Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships

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What are defence mechanisms?

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Unconscious strategies used by the ego to manage anxiety by redirecting psychic energy

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What are the three defence mechanisms?

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Denial
Displacement
Repression

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What is Denial?

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Defence mechanism where a threatening thought is ignored or treated as of it is not true

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What is displacement?

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Defence mechanism where emotions are redirected away from their source or target,towards something else

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What is repression?

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Defence mechanism which involves burying an unpleasant thought into the unconscious

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What are some strengths to this theory?

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Led to effective therapies
Case study methodology
Psychic determinism

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What are some weaknesses to this theory?

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Can’t be used for some mental disorders
Lack of scientific methodology
Can’t be generalised (case studies)
Doesn’t allow for free will

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