FINAL - Personality

Question 1

Psychic energy

Answer 1

Generated by instinctual drives pressing for release

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

Present at birth
Unconscious
Functions irrationally
Eg. eating drinking sex
Follows PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
and PRIMARY PROCESS THEORY

Question 3

Id - Pleasure principle

Answer 3

Maximize pleasure, minimize pain

Question 4

Id - primary process theory

Answer 4

If needs can be met with fantasy

Question 5

Ego

Answer 5

Second to develop
Follows the REALITY PRINCIPLE
Executive of personality
Balances SuperEgo and Id

Question 6

Reality Principle

Answer 6

Tests reality to decide when the Id can safely discharge its impulses

Question 7

Superego

Answer 7

Last to develop (4/5yo)
In charge of morals
Ideas from Parents
Decides whether Ego has been good or bad
Pride and Guilt

Question 8

3 sources of anxiety in Psychodynamic perspective

Answer 8

Reality
Neurotic
Moral

Question 9

Reality anxiety

Answer 9

Fear of real world threats

Question 10

Neurotic anxiety

Answer 10

Fear of Ids desires

Question 11

Moral anxiety

Answer 11

Fear of Superegos guilt

Question 12

Defense mechanisms (11)

Answer 12

1. Repression
2. Denial
3. Sublimation
4. Projection
5. Regression
6. Intellectualization
7. Reaction formation
8. Conversion
9. Displacement
10. Isolation
11. Rationalization

Question 13

Repression

Answer 13

Pushed to subconscious

Question 14

Denial

Answer 14

Denying

Question 15

Sublimation

Answer 15

Released in socially acceptable behaviour

Question 16

Projection

Answer 16

Attributing impulse to other people

Eg. i hate her cause she hates me

Question 17

Regression

Answer 17

Mentally returning to an earlier safer state

Eg. Thumb sucking, bed wetting

Question 18

Intellectualization

Answer 18

Situation treated as an intellectually interesting event

Question 19

Reaction formation

Answer 19

Exaggerated opposite behaviour
Hostility shows thru

Eg. React to hating your sister by talking abt how much u luv her

Question 20

Conversion

Answer 20

Conflict converted into physical symptom

Eg. Develop blindness so that u wont have to see the situation

Question 21

Displacement

Answer 21

Use a secondary goal as an outlet

Eg getting angry at something else

Question 22

Rationalization

Answer 22

Hitting my kids for their own good

If i cant get it, it must not be good (fox and grapes)

Question 23

Isolation

Answer 23

Memories allowed back into consciousness but without motives or emotion

Question 24

Sublimation

Answer 24

Released in a socially acceptable/admired behaviour

Question 25

Unc - dreams

Answer 25

Not constrained by reality (ego) and morality (superego)

• anxiety can still be aroused
• have latent (surface) and manifest (deep) content

Question 26

Unc - Free association

Answer 26

• freud opts for this over hypnosis
• patient is to say anything
• analyst looks for association and resistance

Question 27

Unc - errors of speech and memory

Answer 27

Freudian slips
Absent mindedness
Freud believes these are motivated

Eg. Ross sayin rachels name

Question 28

Superior

Answer 28

Above