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LESSON 3: Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspective Flashcards

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modifications, extensions, or revisions of Freud’s original psychoanalytic theory

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neo-freudian

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method of investigating and treating personality disorders that are commonly used in psychotherapy

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psychoanalytical perspective

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past experiences of people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as adults

True or False

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true

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3 regions of the mind

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  • conscious
  • preconscious
  • unconscious
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mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

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conscious

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conscious is a highly ______ state

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fugitive

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turned toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perception of external stimuli

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perceptual conscious system

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contains all elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty

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preconscious

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memories and emotions that have not been repressed can be _______

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preconscious

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consists of thoughts and feelings that are repressed and therefore unknown

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unconscious

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unconscious holds the _____ area

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largest

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region of the mind where the id resides

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unconscious

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discharge of previously repressed effects or emotions connected to traumatic events that occur when these events are brought back into someone’s consciousness and re-experienced

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catharsis

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people could achieve catharsis by bringing _____ and ____ to light

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  • unconscious feelings
  • memories
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3 parts of personality

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  • id
  • ego
  • superego
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represents the norms & qualities of the individual, his family and society

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superego

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unorganized part of the personality structure that contains a human’s basic, instinctual drives

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id

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mind’s avenue to the real world; mediates between the id and the external world

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ego

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rational thinking that includes intellectual activities such as perception, logical thought, problem-solving, and memory

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secondary-process thought

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moral principle

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superego

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reality priinciple

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ego

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pleasure principle

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id

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coping styles used during moments of anxiety brought by unresolved libidinous urges

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defense mechanisms

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8 types of defense mechanisms

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  • repression
  • regression
  • denial
  • rationalization
  • reaction-formation
  • fixation
  • projection
  • displacement
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refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

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denial

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work by banishing any thoughts, feelings, or memories that cause anxiety in the unconscious

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repression

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disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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projection

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offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one’s action

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rationalization

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switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

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reaction-formation

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shifting sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

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displacement

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retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

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regression

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a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

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fixation

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5 stages of psychosexual development

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  • oral
  • anal
  • phallic
  • latency
  • genital
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childhood personality problems were the result of early experiences in life

True or False

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False - adult personality problems

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parts of the body that have especially strong pleasure-giving qualities at particular stages of development

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erogenous zones

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3 erogenous zones

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  • mouth
  • anus
  • genitals
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occurs during the first 18 months of life when the infant’s pleasure centers on the mouth

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oral

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pleasure focuses on the genitals as the child discovers that self-stimulation is enjoyable

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phallic

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phallic stage triggers the ______

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oedipus complex

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final stage of psychosexual development; time of sexual reawakening, but the source of sexual pleasure now becomes someone outside the family

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genital

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the child’s greatest pleasure involves the anus or the eliminative functions associated with it

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anal

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the child represses all interest in sexuality and develops social and intellectual skills

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latency

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men were affected by their inability to bear children

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womb envy

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when female children notice their lack of a penis, they see it as a deficit

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penis envy

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attraction of daughter to father

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electra complex

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attraction of son to mother

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oedipus complex

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5 mechanisms of development

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  • maturation
  • external frustrations
  • internal conflicts
  • personal inadequacies
  • anxiety
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certain skills, knowledge, expertise, or experience that the person needs but lacks

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personal inadequacies

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cause a painful buildup of tension and force children to delay and detour their discharge of energy

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external frustration

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external frustration come from ___ or ___ that do not allow the immediate expression of needs

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  • people
  • events
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involves changes in the nervous system, motor development, hormonal changes, drives, and so on

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maturation

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unpleasant feeling that occurs when the child anticipates physical or psychological pain

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anxiety

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3 types of anxiety

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  • neurotic anxiety
  • moral anxiety
  • realistic anxiety
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arise from the battle among the id, ego, and superego, or more specifically, between drives and forces of repression

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internal conflicts

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2 types of drives

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  • sexual drives
  • death drives
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apprehension about an unknown danger

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neurotic anxiety

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unpleasant, nonspecific, feeling involving a possible danger

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realistic anxiety

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stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego

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moral anxiety

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can be expressed via narcissism, love, sadism, and masochism

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sexual drives

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expressed via teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor and enjoyment of other people’s suffering

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death drives

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operate as a constant motivational force

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drives

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Freud believed that the entire body is invested with libido, especially in the erogenous zones

True or False

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true

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the aim of the destructive drive is to return the organism to an ______ state

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inorganic

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destructive state

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death drives

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energy for sexual drive

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libido

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