The Hidden Spring- Chap 2, Before and After Freud Flashcards
What did Freud believe was the reason for folks disregarding their unconscious aka resistance and repression?
In order to prevent emotional distress
What term can best describe what drives conscious behavior?
Unconscious intentionality
What did Freud believe the origins of feelings to be and why did he believe this was relevant to neurophysiology?
Bodily/biological needs
Freud believed neurophsyiological and physiological information should be interpreted according to what needs they attempted to meet, rather than simply localized phenomena with a physiological explanation (localisationist fallacy)
What did Freud consider metapsychological forces and why was he rejected for this at his time?
Metapsychological forces were the forces that lie behind one’s psychology, aka the driving forces
He was rejected because this was too subjective for his time
What role does the prefontal lobe have in opposition to seeking circuitry and how does this apply to me?
The seeking (dopamine) system become inhibited by the prefrontal lobe, likely showing that one can learn to become inhibited.
This applies to both me and Bismah, our exploratory natures were reduced because we were taught to reduce them
Which part of the brain lights up more during sleep and what particular circuitry?
Subcortical areas activate during sleep, with most of the activity happening in the seeking circuits
What precedes thoughts and how can thoughts override reality?
Feelings precede thought, although those feelings are not always recognized in thought. The thought often is counter to the feeling, which means if one’s initial thoughts are counter to their feelings then they are counter to reality
How does anxiety, as a feeling, precede and influence the proceeding thoughts?
The feeling of anxiety won’t necessarily be recognized, and one can think thoughts in opposition to the anxiety, without them knowing they are doing that.
Ex- Someone is anxious about a first date. They may say “well i can always get another date” prior to this date, expressing a thought that would counter the anxiety of an awkward first date and failed courtship
What did Panskepp describe the freudian notion of drives (id) as?
Homeostatic affect
