Sigmund Freud Flashcards
Psychosocial theory
Sigmund freud
Three components of psychosocial theory
Id ego superego
Primitive and unconscious part of the mind that reflects pleasure seeking behavior and sexual desires
Id
Seeks gratification
Id
Pleasure principle
Id
Balancing or deciding factor between id and superego
Ego
Represents mature and adaptive behavior that allows a person to function successfully
Ego
Reality principle
Ego
Reflects moral and ethical concepts and values
Superego
Composed of the conscience and ego (guilt) ideal (idealistic view of what’s right)
Superego
Moral principle
Superego
Five stages of psychosexual development
Oral
Anal
Phallic/Oedipal
Latency
Genital
Believe that sexual energy or libido was the driving force of human behavior
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Focuses on the mouth from birth to 1.5 years old
Oral
If not fully satisfied, the child may develop an oral fixation like smoking or nail biting
Oral
Focus on anus like bowel and bladder control from 1.5 to 4 years old
Anal
Possible outcome for anal if overly lenient or overly demanding
Overly lenient may develop anal-expulsive personality such as carelessness or rebelliousness
Overly strict may develop anal-retentive personality such as over controlling or orderliness
Focus on genitals mainly penis from 4 to 6 or 7 years old
Phallic/Oedipal
Child discovers male and female gender and masturbation. Superego develops.
Phallic/Oedipal
Avoid developed sexual attraction to his mother and views his father as rival which places fears that his penis will be castrated by his father as punishment (castration anxiety)
Oedipus complex
A girl develop sexual attraction to her father and use her mother as rival where she sees the father as dominant figure and desires to have a penis (penis envy)
Electra complex
Focus on the shift to physical intellectual and socially appropriate activities from 7 to 12 years old
Latency
This is where the libido is suppressed since the child many has friends of the same sex and develop social skills outside family
Latency
Sexual desire is reactivated from 12 years old to adulthood
Genital
