Chapter 2 Flashcards
(41 cards)
Who is the father of psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Why does Freud use biological causes to explain mental disfunction?
Because he was originally trained as a medical doctor
The origin and nature of the _________ is created primarily by childhood experience through depression
Unconscious
What states that impulses for pleasure are often accompanied by painful thoughts because pleasure would violate the moral restrictions we’ve learned
Hedonic Hypothesis
What proposes that underlying psychological factors cause symptoms and other behavior?
Psychic Determinism
What are the three levels of consciousness?
Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious
What are the experiences of which a person is aware? Includes memories and intentional actions
Conscious
What is material that’s not in awareness at a particular time and can be brought to awareness readily? For ex. your moms birthday
Preconscious
What is the mental process of which a person isn’t aware? This material is kept there because it would cause too much anxiety.
Unconscious
What are the three structures of personality?
ID, Ego, and Superego
What is hedonistic and aims to satisfy urges, which reduce tension and bring pleasure?
ID
What is psychic energy?
Libido
What adapts to the constraints of the real world?
Ego
What is an informal representative of rules and restrictions of family and society?
Super Ego
What is the most healthy defense mechanism?
Sublimation
What states that repression requires energy and the more energy tied up in the conflict the less energy is available for dealing with the current reality?
Energy Hypothesis
What signals that the ego is failing?
Anxiety
What deals with anxiety?
Defense Mechanisms
What is the primitive way not acknowledging painful aspects of reality?
Denial
What is shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person?
Displacement
What means people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others?
Projection
What term offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reason for ones action?
Rationalization
What is the process of borrowing or merging one’s identity with that of someone else?
Identification
What does it mean to find a socially acceptable aim and object for the expression of an unacceptable impulse? This may be expressed in art and occupation.
Sublimation
