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Test 1 (Ch. 2) Flashcards

0
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Freud was _______ in birth order.

A

first

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Freud had a _____ relationship with his mother.

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strong

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What was Freud’s religion?

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jewish

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action or force

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cause

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emotion or opperating will that caused you do to cause (usually unaware of this)

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motive

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represents internalized values, ideals, and standards (conscious)

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super ego

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the self; function of the personality that follows the reality principle and operates according to secondary processing and reality testing

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ego

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Freud said that dreams are broken down into how many parts?

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two

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What are the two parts Freud said dreams are broken down into?

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manifest content and latent content

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the main portion of the dream; what you remember when you wake up

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manifest content

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meaning or motive underlying manifest dream (what the dream actually means)

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latent content

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emotional and psychic energy derived from the biological drive of sexuality (sexual energy)

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libido

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What are the four parts of drive?

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source, impetus, aim, object

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13
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Are drives driven by conscious or unconsious?

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unconscious

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need or bodily stimulus

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source

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intensity or amount of energy in a drive

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impetus

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purpose or goal of drive

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aim

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solution to need (person or object that will satisfy need) in drive

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object

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a mental representation of an inner bodily source of excitement

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drive

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Psychosexual stage where major souce of pain and pleasure is mouth

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oral

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psychosexual stage in which the major source of pleasure and conflict is the anus

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anal

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psychosexual stage where pleasurable and conflicting feelings are associated with the genitals

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phallic

22
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period of sexual calm

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latency stage

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stage in which individual reaches sexual maturity

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genital stage

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a procedure that wards off anxiety and prevents the conscious perception

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defense mechanisms

25
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total composite of your emotions, motivations, learning capacities, perceptual mechanisms, and biological capacities

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personality

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an unconscious psychological conflict in which the child loves the parent of the opposite sex

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Oedipus Complex

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the female counterpart to the Oedipus Complex (trying to get penis back)

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Electra Complex

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a technique in which a person verbalizes whatever comes to mind

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free association

29
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seeking immediate tension relief

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Pleasure Principle

30
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satisfying the id’s impulses in an appropriate manner to the external world

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Reality Principle

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a process whereby the patient transfers to the analyst emotional attitudes felt as a child toward important persons; transferring feelings onto other people

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transference

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when a force from within prevents patient from becoming aware of events and keeps the memories unconscious

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resistance

33
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credited by Freud with the discovery of psychoanalytic method

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Jospeh Breuer

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refusing to believe a relality or fact of life

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denial

35
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involves unconscious denial of the existence of something that causes anxiety

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repression

36
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involves denying the existence of an external threat of traumatic event

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denial

37
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acting the opposite of how you really feel

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reaction formation

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involves attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else; projecting feelings onto someone else

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projection

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involves retreating to an earlier, less frustrating period of life and displaying the childish and dependent behaviors characteristic of that more secure time

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regression

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reinterpreting behavior to make it more acceptable and less threatening; making up an excuse for what happened

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rationalization

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taking feelings out onto something or someone other than the actual things causing the feelings

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displacement

42
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taking impulses and turning them into a more socially acceptable behavior

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sublimation

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