Unit 7.6

Question 1

Unconscious

Answer 1

Unacceptable thoughts, feelings, wishes, & memories

Question 2

Ego

Answer 2

Operates on reality principle (seeks to satisfy id’s impulses in a realistic way).

Question 3

Id

Answer 3

Unconscious psychic energy constantly trying to satisfy basic need; operates on pleasure principle.

Question 4

Super Ego

Answer 4

Conscience forces ego to consider the ideal (how we ought to behave).

Question 4

Psychosexual Development

Answer 4

Process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages.

Question 5

Fixated

Answer 5

When one’s desire is tied to an object of desire connected to an earlier phase in one’s psychosexual development.

Question 6

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 6

A mental process initiated, typically unconsciously, to avoid conscious conflict or anxiety.

Question 7

Oral Stage

Answer 7

• 0-18 months
• Pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, biting, chewing.

Question 8

Anal Stage

Answer 8

• 18-36 months
• Pleasure focuses on bowel & bladder eliminator; coping with demands for control

Question 9

Phallic Stage

Answer 9

• 3-6 years
• Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with your incestuous sexual feelings.

Question 10

Oedipus Complex-Castration Anxty

Answer 10

Freud believed that as the child becomes aware of the physical differences between males and females, he assumes that the females penis has been removed.

Question 11

Electra Complex-Penis Envy

Answer 11

Theory that girl’s develop resentment towards their mother for “castrating” them, and develops attachment to their father.

Question 12

Genital Stage

Answer 12

Final stage of development, where person seeks to satisfy sexual impulses.

Question 13

Latency Stage

Answer 13

The period of reduced sexuality that Freud believed occurred between approximately age seven and adolescence.

Question 14

Carl Jung

Answer 14

Collective Unconscious: the collective conscious refers tot eh idea that a segment of the deepest unconscious mind is genetically inherited & not shaped by personal experience.
Archetypes: the persona, the shadow, the anima/animus, the self, and the hero.

Question 15

Alfred Adler

Answer 15

Compensation: striving for a personally defined superiority. It is the attempt to move upward from a place of inferiority to a place of superiority.
Inferiority Complex: natural-born psychological state of all people

Question 16

Karen Horney

Answer 16

Anxiety: when a person feels hopeless or isolated due to being raised by emotionally neglectful parents.
Neurotic Trends: methods of dealing with anxiety can become excessive and obsessive.