Week 6 - Freud and Authoritarian Personality

Question 1

What is ‘Freudian structural model’?

Answer 1

Id - instincts/I want
Ego - reality/I will
Superego - morality/I should

Question 2

what is the Freudian topographical model?

Answer 2

conscious
pre-conscious - Brexit example
unconscious

Question 3

what are Freud’s processes/key concepts?

Answer 3

energy
anxiety
defence mechanisms

Question 4

what does fried mean by ‘the root of the problem’?

Answer 4

trauma - occurs when instinct expression is (or threatens to be) harmful to the self
anxiety - ‘reminders’ of previous traumas which are threatening
the source, experience, and consequences of anxieties can all be UC

Question 5

what are some examples of defence mechanisms?

Answer 5

repressions (father/umbrella)
denial
rationalisation
displacement 
projection
altruism

Question 6

what is psychosexual development?

Answer 6

(Oedipus complex)
oral
anal
phallic
latency
genital

Question 7

what is the authoritarian personality?

Answer 7

adorno et al
the idea that some people are more susceptible than others to being influenced by a powerful leader, think back to A level

Question 8

what is the F-scale?

Answer 8

the measure of the potential for Fascism 
target neutral items
ideologically neutral items
based on ethnocentrism differentiators 
all pro-trait

Question 9

what are three of the main f-scale clusters?

Answer 9

conventionalism
authoritarian submission
authoritarian aggression