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Week 1 - Freud Flashcards

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1
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Freud considered the ______ of a child’s life to be most important?

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First 5 years

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He interpreted _____

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Dreams

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Freud believed in ____ _________

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Psychic determination

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Role of _____ ________ shape adult _________

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Role of childhood experiences shape adult personality

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_____ and _____ symptoms or _______ have meaning

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Biology and individual symptoms or manifestations have meaning

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Transference

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The unconscious tendency to assign to others feelings and attitudes associated with a significant person to the therapist

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Countertransference

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The therapist’s emotional involvement with a client

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Structure of the Personality

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Freud organized the structure of the personality into 3 major components: Id, Ego, Superego

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3 major components of Personality

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Id, Ego, Superego

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Id

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  • Instinctual drives
  • Immediate gratification
  • *IMPULSIVE and irrational
  • Human nature
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Ego

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  • RATIONAL SELF
  • Develops at ages 4-6 months
  • Experiences the reality of the external world - adapts and responds to it
  • Role is to maintain harmony among external world, id, and superego
  • Controls conscious
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Superego

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  • OUR MORAL SELF
  • Perfection principle that develops between ages of 3-6 years olds
  • Internalizes the values and morals set forth by primary caregivers
  • Controls preconscious
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Psychic energy and drives

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Drives to fulfill basic psychological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sex as libido

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Impulsive behaviors prevail when

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Excessive psychic energy is stored in the id

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3 parts of Freud’s Mental Operations

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Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious

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Conscious

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Memories that remain within an individual’s awareness

-Under control of the ego (the rational and structure of the personality)

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Preconscious

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All memories that may have been forgotten or are not in the present awareness

  • Can be readily called into consciousness
  • Helps to suppress unpleasant or non-essential memories from consciousness
  • Partially under the control of the superego
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Unconscious

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Includes all memories that you can’t consciously remember

-Non-essential or unpleasant memories are repressed

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Unconscious material may only emerge in

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Dreams and in incomprehensible behavior

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Unconscious memories can only be retrieved through

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Therapy, hypnotism, and with certain substances that alter awareness and restructure repressed memories

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Rational self

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Ego

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Moral self

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Superego

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Impulsive/human nature

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Id

24
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Oral stage

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birth - 18 months
*attachment
*Sense of security and ability to trust others
Infant: can’t differentiate between self and person mothering
4-6 months: views self as separate

25
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How are security and ability to trust others developed in the oral stage?

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Derived from fulfilling basic needs

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Stage for birth to 18 months

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Oral Stage

27
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Phallic stage

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3-6 years

  • superego development
  • sexual identity with parent
  • Oedipus complex (males)
  • Electra complex (females)
28
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Oedipus complex/Electra complex

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Child’s unconscious desire to eliminate parent of same gender and possess parent of opposite gender for him/herself

Oedipus: male
Electra: female

29
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Stage for 3-6 years

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Phallic

30
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Latency stage

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6-12 years
Transition from egocentricism to interest in group activities, learning, socializing
-Sexuality is obscure and imperceptible to others
-Preference for same-gender relationships (might reject opposite gender)

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Stage for 6-12 years

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Latency stage

32
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Anal stage

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18 months - 3 years

  • Toilet training
  • Independence and control
  • Stubbornness, stinginess, controlling
33
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Stage for 18 months - 3 years

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Anal stage

34
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Genital stage

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13- 20 years

  • LIBIDINAL DRIVE
  • Focus on members of opposite gender and preps for mate selection
  • Interpersonal relationships based on genuine pleasure
35
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In the genital stage, sexual maturity evolves from

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Self-gratification to behaviors deemed acceptable by societal norms

36
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When are ego defense mechanisms used?

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  • When faced by a threat

- Used consciously or unconsciously as a protective device for ego or to relieve anxiety

37
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When do ego defense mechanisms become a problem?

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When they are used to a degree that a person can no longer deal with personal relations or reality

38
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Defense mechanisms (11)

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  • Compensation
  • Rationalization
  • Denial
  • Reaction formation
  • Displacement
  • Regression
  • Repression
  • Intellectualization
  • Sublimation
  • Undoing
  • Projection
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Compensation

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Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable

40
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Rationalization

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Attempting to make or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors

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Denial

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Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or feelings associated with it

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Reaction formation

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Preventing unacceptable or undesired thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors

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Displacement

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Transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or neutral

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Regression

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Retreating in response to stress at an earlier level of development and comfort measures associated with that level of functioning

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Repression

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Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

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Intellectualization

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An attempt to avoid expressing emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellect

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Sublimation

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Diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological from its immediate goal to one that is more acceptable

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Undoing

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Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that is intolerable

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Projection

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Attributing unacceptable feelings or impulses to another person

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