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Week 4: Freud and post-Freudian theorists Flashcards

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Which two people and their theories were big influences for Freud?

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  • Charles Darwin and his view on humans not being fundamentally different from animals
  • Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzche who focused on the unconscious and irrational and primitive forces
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List the main emphases of Psychoanalytic theory

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  • intra-psychic events
  • unconscious drives
  • early childhood
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List Freud’s major theories

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  • instincts
  • topographic model
  • structural model
  • stages of psychosexual development
  • defence mechanisms
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Describe Freud’s instincts

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  • Eros: the life instinct - sexual reproduction, creativity, generativity
  • Thanatos: the death instinct - destruction, war
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Describe Freud’s topographic model

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  • Things we are conscious of at the surface, the middle is preconscious, and the bottom is unconscious - think top to bottom of ice berg
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Describe Freud’s structural model

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  • Superego: internalised rules, dogmatic
  • Ego: the balancing force between the superego and the id
  • Id: destructive, primitive force, animalistic part of the self
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Describe Freud’s stages of psychosexual development

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Freud posited that as infants grow, they go through different sexual fixations at different stages, with key conflicts at each stage

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Describe Freud’s defence mechanisms

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Defence mechanisms are processes that help defend against assaults to your personality

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What are some popular criticisms of Freud’s theories?

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  • overemphasis on sexual urges
  • heterosexist and offensive to women
  • focus on early childhood
  • virtually impossible to test
  • cultural generalisability?
  • restricted sample: unhappy middle class females
  • no real time data - wrote from memory
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List Freud’s 6 main contributions to psychology

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  • unconscious mental life affects conscious experience
  • dynamic components of the mind in conflict
  • past experiences (early childhood) affect our current perception
  • transference can occur
  • defence mechanisms
  • observable psychological and psychosomatic symptoms
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Define transference

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The tendency to transfer problems from one close relationship to areas that mirror it

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What were Erik Erikson’s main views on personality?

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  • it continues to develop throughout the lifespan
  • it is buit up over time
  • emphasised the impact of culture, society and history
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Erik Erikson’s childhood

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  • born in Germany
  • father abandoned family before birth
  • rejected by school peers, dropped out to travel and paint, trained in psychoanalysis
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List the 8 stages of Erikson’s stage model

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  • oral sensory
  • muscular-anal
  • locomotor
  • latency
  • adolescence
  • young adulthood
  • middle adulthood
  • maturity
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What was the main premise of Erikson’s stages?

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We go through each stage and have conflicts that we have to deal with. Successful handing of conflicts leads us into the next stage in a positive way

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What is the age and basic conflict of the oral sensory stage?

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  • 0-12/18 mo

- Trust vs. mistrust (hope)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the muscular-anal stage?

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  • 18mo - 3 years old

- Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

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What is the age and basic conflict of the locomotor stage?

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  • 3-6

- Initiative vs. guilt (purpose)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the latency stage?

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  • 6-12

- Industry vs. inferiority (competence)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the adolescence stage?

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  • 12-18

- Identity vs. role confusion (fidelity)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the young adulthood stage?

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  • 19-40

- Intimacy vs. isolation (love)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the middle adulthood stage?

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  • 41-65

- Generativity vs. stagnation (care)

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What is the age and basic conflict of the maturity stage?

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  • 65-death

- Ego integrity vs. despair (wisdom)

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What are the three neurotic trends by Horney?

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  • moving toward people
  • moving against people
  • moving away from people
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What are neurotic needs?

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Those generated from personal insecurities or expectations from others

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List a couple of things about Alfred Adler’s childhood

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  • jealousy of brother
  • inferiority to brother
  • early childhood illness
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What was Adler’s overall approach called?

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Individual psychology

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What were Adler’s focuses under ‘individual psychology’?

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  • people have a will to power
  • people strive for superiority
  • there is social interest in kinship with others
  • personal continuity is a qualitative narrative
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What is said about our earliest conscious memories?

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They hold clues about the person’s present and future identity and style of life

30
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Define style of life

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Someone’s unique mode of adjustment to life, including self selected goals and means of achieving them

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What did Bruhn and Schiffman suggest were congruent with our earliest memories and present identity?

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  • mastery and control
  • punishment
  • interpersonal difficulties
32
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What is a fictional final goal?

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  • a idealised, hypothetical, vague goal that is created to give life meaning and purpose
  • guides striving for superiority, wholeness and completion
33
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Humans begin life with a ________ which is never outgrown

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sense of inferiority

34
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Failure to reach ones striving can result in…

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inferiority complex

35
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Organ inferiority

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Defective parts/organs shape personality through efforts to compensate for defect/weakness

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Spoiling

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When spoilt children meet obstacles, they believe they have a personal deficiency, and an inferiority complex develops

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Neglect

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Children whose infancy and childhood is characterised by lack of love and security can develop feelings of worthlessness and distrust in others

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What did Adler believe about birth order?

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The first five years of life helped set the stage for later psychological development

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First borns

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  • oriented towards the past, nostalgic, pessimistic about the future
  • order and authority
  • over represented in uni attendance, girls more obedient and responsible
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Second borns

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  • more optimistic about the future

- less likely to be competitive and ambitious

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Youngest children

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  • often high achievers

- could be too pandered and believe they need not do anything for themselves

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Only children

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  • often mature early and manifest adult behaviours and attitudes
  • have not learned to share or compete
  • high levels of industriousness, initiative and self esteem
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What kind of things would Adler look at to discover lifestyle fictions/personality assessment?

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  • birth order position
  • earliest childhood memory
  • childhood problems
  • dreams and daydreams
  • how people express themselves
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How did Horney and Freud differ

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  • horney emphasised the relationship between child and parents
  • she didn’t believe in developmental stages or
    childhood conflicts
  • childhood is dominated by need for safety
  • suggested womb envy
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How did Horney suggest that anxiety aroused?

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Through culture and the way in which a child is brought up

46
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How did Horney suggest neurotic behaviour came about?

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The child represses anger and resentment so they don’t lose love and security, but a cycle of intrapsychic conflict results

47
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People with an inferiority complex feel…

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Helpless and unable to cope with life

48
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What kind of events can interfere with striving?

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Physical obstacles and personal limitations

49
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List some ways in which individuals can compensate for an inferiority complex

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  • becoming good at what they feel inferior about
  • becoming good at something else
  • not developing self esteem at all
50
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Freud’s basic concept

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  • unconscious is self destructive

- unconscious thoughts can be the source of neurosis

51
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Explain Adler’s concept of birth order

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Order of birth is a major influence in childhood, from which we create our style of life

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