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CHAPTER 2: Sigmund Freud Flashcards

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1
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Human personality and behavior are
powerfully shaped by ______ relationships.

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Early Childhood

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They believed that humans are
primarily ______ creatures dominates by sexual and aggressive impulses.

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Pleasure-seeking

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What are the different levels of mental life?

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  • Unconscious
  • Pre-conscious
  • Conscious
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Contains drives, urges, and instincts beyond awareness. It
is also the reason behind dreams, slips, and certain kinds
of forgetting (repression).

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Unconscious

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Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can
become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

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Pre- Conscious

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Those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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Conscious

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Inherited Experience that lies on individual’s personal experiences (Unconscious Images)

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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Name two sources of the the Pre-conscious.

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  • Conscious Perception
  • Unconscious
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Name two direction of the conscious.

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  • Perceptual Conscious System
  • Within mental structure and the preconscious
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What are the three provinces of the mind?

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  • ID (The “It”)
  • Ego (The “I”)
  • Superego (The “Above I”
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This province of mind is:

-Unrealistic
-Serves the pleasure principle
-Amoral

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ID (The “It”)

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This province of mind is:

-Reality Principle
-Decision-making or executive branch of personality

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Ego (The “I”)

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This province of mind is:

-Moralistic and idealistic principle
-Unrealistic in its demand for perfection

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Superego (The “Above I”)

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What are the subsystem of the Superego “Above I”?

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-The conscience
-Ego-ideal

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Every basic drive is characterized by an
______, a source, an aim, and an object.

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Impetus

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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

Grouped into two major headings:

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Sex and Aggression

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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

What are the aim of sexual drive?

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-Primary Narcissism
-Sadism
-Masochism

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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

The Aim of this destructive drive is to return the
organism to an inorganic state
Flexible and can take many forms.

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Aggression

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DRIVES AND INSTINCTS

It warns us against impeding danger

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Anxiety

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What are the two dynamics of personality?

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-Aggression
-Anxiety

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Three forms of Anxiety.

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-Neurotic
-Moral
-Realistic

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Fear that one’s inner impulses cannot
be controlled

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Fear of violating moral or societal codes

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Tangible fears/ dangers

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Blocking a wish or desire from the conscious expression
Repression
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Expressing an impulse by its opposite
Reaction Formation
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object
Displacement
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Returning to an earlier form of expressing an impulse
Regression
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Attributing an unconscious impulse, attitude, or behavior to another
Projection
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Incorporating positive qualities of another person into own ego
Introjection
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Rechanneling an impulse into a more socially desirable outlet
Sublimation
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Refusing to accept an unpleasant reality
Denial
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Dealing with an emotion intellectually to avoid emotional concern
Rationalization
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS Modelling one's behavior after the behavior of someone else
Identification
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Which Psychosexual stage is a period of pre-genital sexual development during the first 4 or 5 years after birth ?
Infantile Period
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State the 5 psychosexual stages of development
-Oral -Anal -Phallic -Latency -Genital
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Mouth is the first organ to provide an infant with pleasure.
Oral Phase
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When excessive they become orderly, organized, and tidy.
Anal Phase
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A time when the genital area becomes the leading erogenous zone.
Phallic Stage
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Sexual Attraction towards the opposite sex of the parent
Oedipus Complex
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Preceding the phallic stage an infant boy forms an IDENTIFICATION with his father: That he wants to be his father
Male Oedipus Complex
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from the 4th until 5th year until puberty both boys and girls usually but not always go through dormant psychosexual development
Latency Period
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The awakening of sexual aim and the beginning of the _____ during puberty sexual life diphasic sexual life of a person enters a second phase which has basic difference from infantile period
Genital Period
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What is the "Royal road to the unconscious"?
Dreams
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Freud used _____ to transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content.
Dream Analysis
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The basic assumption of Freud's dream analysis is that nearly all dreams are ______
Wish Fulfillment
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What the dreamer sees and remembers
Manifest Content
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The meaning of the manifest content, what is the unconscious interpretation of the said dream.
Latent Content
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY wherein A subject is presented with ambiguous stimuli and asks the person to respond with a story, the identification of objects or perhaps a drawing.
Projective Test
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY wherein you spend a few minutes to clear your mind of thoughts. Then allow whatever comes into your mind to enter.
Free Association
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Commonly called slips of the tongue or pen, misreading, incorrect hearing, misplacing objects, and temporarily forgetting names or extensions that are not chance accidents but reveal a person’s unconscious intentions.
Freudian Slips (Parapraxes)
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Early experiences with ______ helped Freud to understand that there was more to the human mind than what one can bring into awareness.
Hypnosis
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Repressed in a person’s mind, examine what he or she finds humorous.
Humor
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APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Many of our daily behaviors be taken as __________ of these unconscious thoughts.
Symbolic Gestures

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