Week 1 - Freud

Question 1

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

Answer 1

First 5 years

Question 2

He interpreted _____

Answer 2

Dreams

Question 3

Freud believed in ____ _________

Answer 3

Psychic determination

Question 4

Role of _____ ________ shape adult _________

Answer 4

Role of childhood experiences shape adult personality

Question 5

_____ and _____ symptoms or _______ have meaning

Answer 5

Biology and individual symptoms or manifestations have meaning

Question 6

Transference

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Countertransference

Answer 7

The therapist’s emotional involvement with a client

Question 8

Structure of the Personality

Answer 8

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

Question 9

3 major components of Personality

Answer 9

Id, Ego, Superego

Question 10

Id

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ego

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

Superego

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

Psychic energy and drives

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Impulsive behaviors prevail when

Answer 14

Excessive psychic energy is stored in the id

Question 15

3 parts of Freud’s Mental Operations

Answer 15

Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious

Question 16

Conscious

Answer 16

Memories that remain within an individual’s awareness

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

Question 17

Preconscious

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Unconscious

Answer 18

Includes all memories that you can’t consciously remember

-Non-essential or unpleasant memories are repressed

Question 19

Unconscious material may only emerge in

Answer 19

Dreams and in incomprehensible behavior

Question 20

Unconscious memories can only be retrieved through

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Rational self

Answer 21

Ego

Question 22

Moral self

Answer 22

Superego

Question 23

Impulsive/human nature

Answer 23

Id

Question 24

Oral stage

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Derived from fulfilling basic needs

Question 26

Stage for birth to 18 months

Answer 26

Oral Stage

Question 27

Phallic stage

Answer 27

3-6 years * superego development - sexual identity with parent - Oedipus complex (males) - Electra complex (females)

Question 28

Oedipus complex/Electra complex

Answer 28

Child's unconscious desire to eliminate parent of same gender and possess parent of opposite gender for him/herself Oedipus: male Electra: female

Question 29

Stage for 3-6 years

Answer 29

Phallic

Question 30

Latency stage

Answer 30

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)

Question 31

Stage for 6-12 years

Answer 31

Latency stage

Question 32

Anal stage

Answer 32

18 months - 3 years * Toilet training * Independence and control - Stubbornness, stinginess, controlling

Question 33

Stage for 18 months - 3 years

Answer 33

Anal stage

Question 34

Genital stage

Answer 34

13- 20 years - LIBIDINAL DRIVE - Focus on members of opposite gender and preps for mate selection - Interpersonal relationships based on genuine pleasure

Question 35

In the genital stage, sexual maturity evolves from

Answer 35

Self-gratification to behaviors deemed acceptable by societal norms

Question 36

When are ego defense mechanisms used?

Answer 36

- When faced by a threat | - Used consciously or unconsciously as a protective device for ego or to relieve anxiety

Question 37

When do ego defense mechanisms become a problem?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Defense mechanisms (11)

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Compensation

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Rationalization

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Denial

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Reaction formation

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Displacement

Answer 43

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

Question 44

Regression

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Repression

Answer 45

Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness

Question 46

Intellectualization

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Sublimation

Answer 47

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

Question 48

Undoing

Answer 48

Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that is intolerable

Question 49

Projection

Answer 49

Attributing unacceptable feelings or impulses to another person