Chapter 2

Question 1

Thoughts we are currently aware of. Changes as new thoughts enter our mind. Only a small fraction of memory storage. Can have numerous thoughts at once

Answer 1

Conscious thought

Question 2

Unconscious material that can be brought forward with minimal effort

Answer 2

Preconscious

Question 3

No immediate access to these thoughts. Cannot bring information to our immediate mind except under certain circumstances.

Answer 3

Unconscious

Question 4

Description of the dream as we recall it. What one remembers from a dream. Censored version of our dream. Not a true representation of the unconscious.

Answer 4

Manifest content

Question 5

The real meaning of our dreams

Answer 5

Latent Content

Question 6

Rational mental activity governed by pleasure principal.

Desire to have needs met. Seek pleasure - avoid pain.

Answer 6

Primary Process Thinking

Question 7

Rational thought. More logical and organized. Governed by Reality Principal. Conscious and preconscious - what is actually happening around us.

Answer 7

Secondary Process Thinking

Question 8

Amount of mental energy a person is born with. The life/sexual instinct.

Answer 8

Libido

Question 9

Death instinct

Answer 9

Thanatos

Question 10

Source of our cravings, impulses, sexual and agressive thoughts. Operates on Pleasure Principal. Concerned with immediate satisfaction.

Answer 10

Id

Question 11

Medatior. Mediates between desires and reality. The executive part of personality (plans, organizes)
Can’t always have everything we want.

Answer 11

Ego

Question 12

Our conscious. Tells us societal standards. How one knows right from wrong.

Answer 12

Superego

Question 13

Created when 3 structures (Id, ego, superego) are in oppositions (when they disagree).

Answer 13

Instrapsychic conflict

Question 14

Stages

Answer 14

1) oral
2) anal
3) phallic
4) latency
5) genital

Question 15

how the ego deals with sexual/agressive desires and thoughts

Answer 15

Defense Mechanisms

Question 16

literally don’t remember

Answer 16

repression

Question 17

the refusal to accept that certain factors exist

Answer 17

denial

Question 18

contribute unconscious impulses to other people. Place unacceptable views on others

Answer 18

Projections

Question 19

reducing anxiety by acting the opposite way you feel

taking polar opposite position

Answer 19

reaction formation

Question 20

justifying actions (unacceptable actions) and concealing their true meaning.

Answer 20

rationalization

Question 21

when unacceptable thoughts are converted into physical symptoms

Answer 21

conversion reaction

Question 22

avoiding situations/places that bring back negative memories

Answer 22

phobic avoidance

Question 23

channeling impulses into non-threatening objects

Answer 23

Displacement

Question 24

reverting to earlier, developmental patterns when faced with a stressor

Answer 24

regression

Question 25

remove emotional content from our thoughts before allowing them into awareness. Taking the emotion out of our thoughts before letting them in; considering thoughts from an intellectual matter

Answer 25

Isolations

Question 26

magically or symbolically negating previously held thoughts of feelings. Superstitious.

Answer 26

Undoing

Question 27

When ego channels threatening unconscious impulses into socially acceptable actions. It’s productive in the sense that the Id is still allowed to express itself but ego doesn’t expend energy to hold it back and the super ego is satisfied. Allows us to have balance in our personality.
Ex: aggressive person plays sports to channel anger

Answer 27

Sublimation