Test 1: Lectures 6&7 Flashcards
What is psychic determinism?
Psychic meaning underlie ALL thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Justified interpretation of dreams and often reading deeper meaning from every action.
All thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are determined by ______________forces
Unconscious
What does “personality is a closed system” mean?
Involves a fixed amounts of psychic energy shifting from one part to another. Explains pent up energy
What are the characteristics of instincts?
Aim to reduce internal tension
Pressure to motivate for action
Object is sought after as the goal
Source is the bodily area of origin
What are the natures of life and death of instincts?
Life- use psychic energy for preservation and hedonistic behaviours
Death- the return to tension free being
What are the regions of the mind according to Freud?
Conscious mind: little to do with determining behaviour
Preconscious mind: storage for immediate access
Unconscious: desires, fears, memories, impulses
What are the structural elements if personality?
Id, ego, superego
What is involved in the id?
Core of the personality. It is present at birth. Completely UNCONSCIOUS. Pleasure principle. Seeks immediate gratification.
What is in the ego about?
Mediates psychic conflicts between Id’s demands and superego. Meets the desires of Id within the reality principle
What does the superego do?
Works to oppose the expression of the id based on morality. Imposes moral standards on the ego.
What are the 3 types of anxiety?
Reality answer: legit fears
Neurotic anxiety: no rhyme or reason
Moral anxiety: violation of social norms–shouldn’t do it
What are the ways the ego defends itself?
- repression/denial
- reaction formation
- projection/displacement
- rationalization, regression
- undoing
- sublimation
What is involved in up each psychosexual stages?
- a dominating natural drive and associated TENSION reduction behaviour
- A specific PSYCHOSEXUAL CONFLICT that when not resolved…
…leads to MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITIES later in life
What are the 5 psychosexual stages?
- Oral (before 2)
- Anal (2-4)
- Phallic (5 years)
- Latency (5-13)
- Genital (puberty)
What are some methods for psychoanalysis?
Ensure psychoanalytic situation
Catharsis– to purify through discussion, release tension.
Dream analysis– interpretation of conscious expression of a dream to reveal the true, unconscious meaning (latent)
