Approaches: Psychodynamic

Question 1

Suggested the mind is made up of three parts

Answer 1

Freud

Question 2

Mind is made up of

Answer 2

Conscious
Pre-conscious
Unconscious

Question 3

Conscious

Answer 3

What we are aware of

Question 4

Pre-conscious

Answer 4

Thoughts we may become aware of through dreams and ‘slip of the tongue’

Question 5

Unconscious

Answer 5

A vast storehouse of biological drives and instincts that influence behaviour
Contains disturbing memories that have been repressed

Question 6

What is personality described as?

Answer 6

Tripartite - composed of 3 parts

Question 7

Personality

Answer 7

ID
Ego
Superego

Question 8

ID

Answer 8

Primitive part of personality
Operates on pleasure principle
Demands instant gratification of needs

Question 9

Ego

Answer 9

Operates on reality principle
Mediator between ID and superego
Role is to reduce conflict between ID and superego by employing defence mechanisms

Question 10

Defence mechanisms

Answer 10

Unconscious strategies that reduce anxiety

Question 11

Types of defence mechanisms

Answer 11

Repression
Denial
Displacement

Question 12

Repression

Answer 12

Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind

Question 13

Denial

Answer 13

Refusing to acknowledge anxiety

Question 14

Displacement

Answer 14

Transferring feelings from their true source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target

Question 15

Superego

Answer 15

Operates on morality principle
Internalised sense of right and wrong
Punishes ego through guilt

Question 16

Define psychosexual stages

Answer 16

Stages that determine adult personality

Each stage is marked by a different conflicts that the child must resolve to move onto the next

Question 17

Unresolved conflict

Answer 17

Any conflicts unresolved leads to fixation where the child become stuck and behaviours associated with that stage through to adult life

Question 18

Sequence of stages

Answer 18

Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

Question 19

Oral

Answer 19

0-1 years
FOP: mouth. Mothers breast object of desire
Conflict unresolved, consequence: smoking, biting nails

Question 20

Anal

Answer 20

1-3yrs
FOP:anus. Child gains pleasure from withholding and eliminating poo
Conflict unresolved, consequence: 
anal retentive: perfectionist, obsessive
Anal expulsive: thoughtless, messy

Question 21

Phallic

Answer 21

3-5 yrs
FOP: genital area
Child experiences opedius complex

Question 22

Latency

Answer 22

Earlier conflicts are repressed

Question 23

Genital

Answer 23

Puberty
Sexual desires become conscious
Conflict unresolved, consequence: difficulty forming heterosexual relationships

Question 24

Opedius complex

Answer 24

Little boys develop incestuous feelings towards mother and murderous hatred towards father

Later, repress feelings for mother and identify with father, taking on his gender role

Question 25

Electra complex

Answer 25

Girls experience penis envy