chapter 3

Question 1

Describe Freud’s environment

Answer 1

rigorous, chaste, supressed

Question 2

instincts

Answer 2

propelling forces of personality

Question 3

life instincts

Answer 3

instincts oriented toward survival

Question 4

two examples of life instincts

Answer 4

libido, cathexis (energy investment)

Question 5

death instincts

Answer 5

compulsion to destroy and conquer

Question 6

What causes individual differences according to Freud?

Answer 6

ego defense mechanisms

Question 7

what are the most important years for development (Freud)?

Answer 7

first 5 years

Question 8

Can you trust conscious experience?

Answer 8

No, unconscious defense mechanisms distort it

Question 9

determinism

Answer 9

behaviour is determined by unconscious processing

Question 10

free association

Answer 10

description of hidden material by patients that seemed related to the causes/cure of hysterical symptoms

Question 11

What causes hysterical symptoms expressed by adult patients?

Answer 11

early traumatic sexual experiences

Question 12

conscious

Answer 12

thoughts a person is currently aware of

Question 13

preconscious

Answer 13

retrievable information

Question 14

unconscious

Answer 14

thoughts that cannot be easily brought into awareness

Question 15

Id

Answer 15

pleasure principle + primary process thinking

Question 16

ego

Answer 16

reality principle + secondary process thinking

Question 17

superego

Answer 17

internalized values, conscience, ego-ideal

Question 18

what happens when the id demands are unacceptable?

Answer 18

super makes you feel guilt/shame

Question 19

reality anxiety

Answer 19

tangible dangers in environment

Question 20

neurotic anxiety

Answer 20

ego struggles mediating demands of id

Question 21

moral anxiety

Answer 21

id directly confronts superego

Question 22

defense mechanisms

Answer 22

ego strategies to defend against anxiety

Question 23

repression

Answer 23

unconscious removal from awareness

Question 24

denial

Answer 24

denying the existence of a threat

Question 25

reaction formation

Answer 25

hide from unconscious ideas or urges by acting in a manner opposite to our unconscious desires

Question 26

projection

Answer 26

attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else

Question 27

regression

Answer 27

retreat to an earlier period of life

Question 28

rationalization

Answer 28

reinterpreting behaviour

Question 29

displacement

Answer 29

shifting id impulses to a non-threatening suitable object

Question 30

sublimation

Answer 30

displacing id impulses into socially acceptable behaviors

Question 31

What defense mechanism would road rage be an example of?

Answer 31

displacement

Question 32

psychosexual stages of development

Answer 32

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Question 33

fixation

Answer 33

stagnation of energy from a child being unable to move through a particular stage

Question 34

what can cause an oral fixation

Answer 34

feeding problems

Question 35

what can cause an anal fixation?

Answer 35

traumatic toilet training

Question 36

oedipus complex

Answer 36

children develop sexual attraction for their opposite-sex parent

Question 37

How to get at unconscious material?

Answer 37

dreams projective tests free association hypnosis

Question 38

what happens during latency stage?

Answer 38

sexual desires lessen

Question 39

Anna O

Answer 39

patient with hysterical symptoms who was fine when under hypnosis

Question 40

how does id satisfy its needs?

Answer 40

wish fulfillment

Question 41

what are the actions of the ego based on?

Answer 41

reality principle

Question 42

what are the actions of the id based on?

Answer 42

pleasure principle

Question 43

libido

Answer 43

life or sexual instinct

Question 44

thanatos

Answer 44

death or aggressive instinct

Question 45

What is the difference between sublimation and displacement?

Answer 45

sublimation is socially acceptable and displacement isn't

Question 46

intellectualization

Answer 46

considering something in a strictly intellectual, unemotional manner

Question 47

during what stage does the oedipus complex develop?

Answer 47

phallic

Question 48

what is the goal of psychoanalysis?

Answer 48

bring unconscious material into consciousness

Question 49

rorschach inkblot test

Answer 49

test takers must describe what they see on 10 cards, each with an ink blot. Responses are then analyzed/scored

Question 50

Thematic apperception test (TAT)

Answer 50

test takers must form a story off of a series of ambiguous pictures