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T3: Lecture 2 Flashcards

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What did Freud draw attention to?

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  1. Study of the unconscious
  2. Developmental aspect of personality
  3. Talking cures
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What did Freud say the basic condition was?

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Seething cauldron of pleasure seeking instincts

  • If left to own devices would blindly seek gratification
  • External restraints of society were internalised during childhood
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Characteristics of impulses

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  • Can never be ruled out
  • Can be denied
  • Will reassert themselves
  • Conflict between instincts and demands of society
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What 3 subsystems are involved in conflict?

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  1. ID
  2. EGO
  3. SUPEREGO
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What is the ID?

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  • Most primitive part of the psyche
  • Contains most basic urges
  • > the need to gain sexual pleasure
  • Works on the pleasure principles

-Demands satisfaction now not later, regardless of the consequences

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What is the EGO?

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  • Works on the reality principle

- Tries to satisfy the ID whilst in accordance to societal norms

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What is the SUPER EGO?

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  • Acts as a moral policeman, representing internal rules of parents and society
  • Gives punishment to broken rules
  • This leads to anxiety, guilt, and self reproach
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When are defence mechanisms employed?

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-After ID impulses repressed they eventually come back as so does the anxiety therefore defence mechanisms are employed

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What is Displacement? (DM)

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Impulses are redirected into safer course e.g. running when stressed

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What is Reaction Formation? (DM)

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The original wish is replaced with opposite e.g. angry at someone, feel bad, then be nice to them

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What is Projection? (DM)

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Urges are projected onto others e.g. think someone likes you when you like them

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What is Isolation? (DM)

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Awareness of memories but not emotions e.g Post Traumatic events people remove the emotion

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What are unconscious conflicts a result of?

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Childhood experience

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What are the stimulation body zones for children? (5)

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  1. Oral (0-2)
  2. Anal (2-4)
  3. Phallic (4-6)
  4. Latency (6-12) - dormant sexuality, girls don’t like boys
  5. Genital (12+)
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At what stage is the Oedipus complex develop?

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-During the phallic stage

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What happens during the Oedipus complex?

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  • Boys want to sexually posses mother, fear father will castrate him = CASTRATION ANXIETY
  • Decides to identify with father, hoping to find partner like mother
17
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What happens during the Electra complex?

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  • Girls realise they don’t have a penis=PENIS ENVY
  • Wants father to give substitute (baby)
  • Identifies with mother
18
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When difficulties arise during the Oral Stage what are the later problems?

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  • Oral fixation
  • Smoking
  • Thumb sucking
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When difficulties arise during the Anal Stage what are the later problems?

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  • Anal retentiveness
  • Won’t spend $$$
  • Obstinate (stubborn)
  • Likes painting
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When difficulties arise during the Phallic Stage what are the later problems?

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-Castration anxiety=gay?

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Problems with Freud’s studies

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  1. Never studied actual children
  2. Ideas not falsifiable (can’t disprove it)
  3. Little experimental evidence to support ideas
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What is the experimental evidence for Freud?

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  1. Data more appropriately explained through other processes
  2. Supporting experiments often flaws
23
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What did Freud say about children with harsh parents?

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That the would redirect aggressive instinct onto others with less power

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What does evidence suggest for children with harsh parents?

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Authoritarian aggression isn’t caused by redirection of repressed impulses, but observational learning

25
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What did Bruner and Postman’s study look at?

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  • If threatening stimuli are repressed
  • They presenting participants with threatening words (sex/fuck/penis) and non-threatening words (six/brick/tennis) through tachistoscope
  • Threatening words took longer to report, SUPPORTS REPRESSION
  • However findings are problematic as people may
  • > feel embarrassed
  • > want to recheck eyes (which takes time)

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