Psychodynamic aproach

Question 1

What three parts of the mind is behavour influenced by ?

Answer 1

• Conscious mind
• Unconscious mind
• Pre cnscious mind

Question 2

What is the conscious mind ?

Answer 2

Everything you’re currently thinking.

Question 3

what is the pre conscious mind ?

Answer 3

everything you’re not currently thinking about right now but can easily access.

Question 4

Unconscious mind ?

Answer 4

things outside our conscious awareness and we can never access

Question 5

What is the key assumption of the psychodynamic approach ?

Answer 5

most behaviour is caused by the unconscious mind.

Question 6

What is the id ?

Answer 6

-responsible for impulses and the urge for instant gratification.

-it is in the unconscious mind.

-responsible for most of our behaviour.

Question 7

Super-Ego

Answer 7

-wants us to follow rules and morals
-found in the consciuos , preconscious and unconscious mind.

Question 8

Ego

Answer 8

• mediates betwen the id and the superego and decides what to do

-conscious and preconscious mind

-ego is less powerful tha the id.

Question 10

what are defence mechanisms ?

Answer 10

-the way the ego deals with uncomforatble feelings from the id .

Question 11

what re the defence mechanisms

Answer 11

• displacement
• repression
• denial.

Question 12

What is displacement ?

Answer 12

• when the ego redirects the id impluse towards somthing else.

or shifting motions to a sfer target.

Question 13

What is repression

Answer 13

when the ego pushes he ids impulses into the unconscious mind .

Question 14

What is denial ?

Answer 14

when the ego gives in to the id but then refuses to believe its has done so .

Question 15

What r impulses in the unconscious mind shaped by ?

Answer 15

• represses childhood experiences.

Question 16

what are the 5 psycho sexual stages ?

Answer 16

-oral (0-18months) - mouth , main impulse to eat
Fixation - smoking , nailbiting , dependency.

-anal( 18 - 3 years ) , anus , main impluse to poo
Fixation - very emotional , obsessive , messiness

-phallic (3-6 yo) , penis , girls attracted to their father
boys - castraction anxiety
girls - penis envy

-latent (6-12 ) , id impulses spread across body

-genital (12 +) , genitals , helthy adult relationships .

Question 17

Study ?

Answer 17

-Little hans
-he was in his phallic stage
- his fear of horses was redirected to his father

Question 18

Strengths

Answer 18

• hisorical importance
  
  • childhood experiences = psychological disorders
• balance btwn being idiographic + nomothetic
• case studies for individual experiences

Question 19

Weaknesses

Answer 19

• isnt scientific
• lack population validity
• androcentric bias , based on outdated gender stereotypes
• psychic determinism ( the belief that repressed trauma in the unconscious mind casually determines our behaviour )

Question 20

What is psychic determinism ?

Answer 20

the belief that repressed trauma in the unconscious mind casually determines our behaviour