Pyscodynamic

Question 1

What 3 components make up your personality?

Answer 1

• ID
• Ego
• Superego

Question 2

What is your ID?

Answer 2

• Your ID is governed by the pleasure principle
• it is present at birth
• and is consists of primal urges, drives and instincts

Question 3

What is your ego?

Answer 3

• it is governed by the reality principle
• not present at birth
• said to tame the ID
• response to control by others e.g. parents

Question 4

What is your Superego ?

Answer 4

• governed by morality principle
• inner voice , right or wrong
• present at age 5
• in response to parental discipline

Question 5

What are the three types of defence mechanisms ?

Answer 5

Repression, Denial and displacement

Question 6

What are defence mechanisms ?

Answer 6

Created by the ego to protect from trauma or ID or superego by distorting reality

Question 7

What are the 5 Psychosexual stages ?

Answer 7

• oral
• anal
• phallic
• latent
• genital

Question 8

What is repression ?

Answer 8

Blocking out the feelings by any means necessary, staying busy, or drinking alcohol.

Question 9

What is denial ?

Answer 9

Refusing to believe reality

Question 10

What is displacement ?

Answer 10

Transferring your feelings of source to someone else.

Question 11

Explain the oral stage and any fixations.

Answer 11

• 0 to 2 years
• focus on mouth pleasure
• the object of desire is the mothers breast
• fixations could include - smoking, biting nails, sarcastic

Question 12

Explain the anal stage and any fixations.

Answer 12

• 1 to 3 years
• pleasure from anus
• either keeping poo in or letting poo out
• fixations consist of- perfection or obsessive or messy and thoughtless

Question 13

Explain the phallic stage and any fixations.

Answer 13

• 3 to 6 years
• pleasure from genital area
• Oedipus- fancying your mother ( son ) or jealous of your fathers penis ( daughter )
• fixations- narcissistic, reckless , possibly homosexual