The psychodynamic approach

Question 1

3 levels of conciousness? 1-

Answer 1

Unconscious mind = exists outside of your awareness at all times

Question 2

3 levels of consciousness? 2

Answer 2

Preconcious mind = includes all info that you are not currently aware of but that can be recalled

Question 3

3 levels of conciousness? 3

Answer 3

Conscious mind = your current state of awareness

Question 4

ID?

Answer 4

• first to develop
• is the biological component of the personality and includes instincts
• operates in unconscious mind
• operates according to pleasure principal

Question 5

What is the PLEASURE PRINCIPAL?

Answer 5

The idea that all of your needs should be met immediately

Question 6

Ego?

Answer 6

• Operates in your preconcious and concious mind
• part of the personality that makes your descisions
• operates according to the reality principal

Question 7

What is the reality principal?

Answer 7

The idea that the desires of the id must be satisfied in a method that is both socially appropriate and realistic

Question 8

Super ego

Answer 8

• exists in all 3 levels of conciousness
• concerened with what is socially acceptable
• pushes you to obtain the EGO IDEAL
• represents your CONCIOUS

Question 9

Concious definition?

Answer 9

Your view of what is considered wrong

Question 10

Ego ideal definition?

Answer 10

Your view of what is right

Question 11

STRENGTHS

Answer 11

• given rise to one of the first “talking cure” psychoanalysis, on which many psychological therapies are now based
• could be argued that Freud was the 1st person to highlight the importance of childhood in mental health and this idea is extensively used today
• takes into account both sides of the Nature/ Nurture arguement ( Freud claimed that adult personality is the product of innate drives i.e. natural motivations and childhood experiences - way we are raised)

Question 12

WEAKNESSES

Answer 12

• ignores medications processes ( thinking)
• too much emphasis placed on psychological factors without considering the biological/ genetic factors that influence and contribute to mental health problems
• too deterministic ( little free will)
• infalsifiable ( difficult to prove wrong)
• case studies - subjective/ cannot generalise results
• simplifying the human mind into the id, ego and superego and the 5 psychosexual stages makes the approach reductionist

Question 13

Unfalsifiable definition?

Answer 13

Difficult to prove wrong

Question 14

Deterministic definition

Answer 14

Little free will

Question 15

Personality definition

Answer 15

Your distinctive and enduring characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving

Question 16

which 2 ways do scientists study personality in?

Answer 16

• by trying to understand differences in specific characteristics
  2- by looking at how all the various parts of each person mesh together as a whole

Question 17

Repression definition

Answer 17

defense mechanism ythats thought to work by baninishing any thoughts feelings of anxiety into the unconcious

Question 18

defense mechanism?

Answer 18

the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

Question 19

5 psycho sexual stages 1

Answer 19

oral (10- 18 months) pleasure from eating

Question 20

5 psycho sexual stages 2

Answer 20

anal (18-36 months) bowel + bladder

Question 21

5 psycho-sexual stages 3

Answer 21

phallic (3-6 years) genitals, incestuous

Question 22

5 psycho sexual stages 4

Answer 22

latency (6 to puberty) - dormant sexual feelings

Question 23

5 psychosexual stages 5

Answer 23

genital -> mature sexual intent

Question 24

mnemonic for psychosexual stages

Answer 24

old (oral) age (anal) pensioners (phallic) love (latent) grapes (genital).

Question 25

FREUD

Answer 25

• developed talk theory
• heavy cigar smoker, after cancer deemed inoperable, Freud asked doctor to help him commit suicide
• thought that lesbianism is the fault of the father and can be cured by psychoanalysis