Sigmund Freud

Question 1

People develop in 6 levels.

Answer 1

Physical, social, emotional, intellectual, psychological and moral.

Question 2

What are developmental psychologists?

Answer 2

People who study human development in detail and have divided development into physical, social, emotional, moral and intellectual growth.

Question 3

What are the 5 characteristics of Human Growth?

Answer 3

1. Development in human beings is similar all over the world.
2. Development is sequential and builds on earlier development.
3. Development is individualized.
4. Development is interrelated.
5. Development is continuous throughout life.

Question 4

What are the 3 temperaments?

Answer 4

Sensitive, placid (happy), aggressive.

Question 5

3 key elements of a nurturing relationship.

Answer 5

Comfort, play and teach.

Question 6

What are the 3 systems of the mind?

Answer 6

ID, Ego, Superego.

Question 7

What does fixated mean?

Answer 7

Getting stuck on a particular stage.

Question 8

What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?

Answer 8

Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital.

Question 9

Oral age group and focus.

Answer 9

0-18 months, pleasure enters on the mouth. (sucking, biting, eating)

Question 10

Anal age group and focus.

Answer 10

18-36 months, pleasure on bowel and bladder elimination and control.

Question 11

Phallic age group and focus.

Answer 11

3-6 years old, pleasure zone is genitals coping with incestuous feelings.

Question 12

Latency age group and focus.

Answer 12

6 years-puberty, repressed sexual feelings.

Question 13

Genital age group and focus.

Answer 13

puberty, maturation of sexual interests.

Question 14

Oedipus refers to…

Answer 14

Boys

Question 15

Electra refers to…

Answer 15

Girls

Question 16

What is the libido?

Answer 16

A natural source of energy that fuels the mechanisms of the mind.

Question 17

What is fixation?

Answer 17

Where energy stops.

Question 18

Denial.

Answer 18

Refusing to perceive something, protecting oneself from reality.

Question 19

Repression.

Answer 19

Unconsciously preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering awareness.

Question 20

Displacement.

Answer 20

Substitute a different target for impulses when the original would be dangerous or unacceptable.

Question 21

Projection.

Answer 21

Attributing one’s own feelings, shortcomings or unacceptable impulses on others.

Question 22

Reaction Formation.

Answer 22

Preventing dangerous impulses from being expressed in behaviour by exaggerating opposite behaviour.

Question 23

Regression.

Answer 23

Retreating to an earlier level of development or to earlier, less demanding habits or situations.

Question 24

Rationalization.

Answer 24

Justifying your behaviour by giving reasonable and “rational” but false, reasons for it.

Question 25

Sublimation.

Answer 25

Working off unmet desires or unacceptable impulses, in activities that are construction.

Question 26

Compensation.

Answer 26

Counteracting real or imagined weaknesses by emphasizing desirable traits or seeking to excel in the area of weaknesses.

Question 27

Your relatively distinctive and consistent ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

Answer 27

Personality.

Question 28

A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.

Answer 28

Unconscious.

Question 29

Information that is not currently conscious, but is retrievable into conscious awareness.

Answer 29

Preconscious.

Question 30

Psychoanalytic method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says what comes to mind.

Answer 30

Free Association.

Question 31

The process by which children incorporate their parent' values into developing their superegos.

Answer 31

Identification.

Question 32

Emphasizes on environmental influences on observable behaviours.

Answer 32

Behavioural Perspective.

Question 33

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 33

Analyzing the mind.

Question 34

Instinctual drives that supply physic energy.

Answer 34

ID

Question 35

ID's demand for immediate gratification.

Answer 35

Pleasure Principle.

Question 36

The largely conscious part between the demands of the id, superego and reality.

Answer 36

Ego.

Question 37

Focuses on repression and unconscious forces.

Answer 37

Psychoanalytic Perspective.

Question 38

Ego's control of the pleasure seeking activity of the ID in order to meet demands.

Answer 38

Reality Principle

Question 39

Self-critical conscience, reflecting learned social standards.

Answer 39

Superego

Question 40

Oedipus Complex

Answer 40

When boys at a certain age want their mother and do not care about their father.

Question 41

A repressed wish or feeling to be expressed at a conscious level.

Answer 41

Reaction Formation.