Psychodynamic Approach Flashcards
(11 cards)
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Psychodynamic Approach
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Psychic Determinism: All behaviour is caused by unconscious internal conflict that we have no control over
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Conscious
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Aware
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Unconscious
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Stores biological drives and instincts
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Preconscious
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Dreams, Slips of the tongue
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ID
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- Instinctive part of personality
- Innate
- Demands instant gratification and operates on the pleasure principle
- Wants to fulfil biological drives, so is in conflict with the superego
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Ego
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- Represents the conscious mind
- Develops during infancy
- Operates on the reality principle
- Balances the ID by providing logical and rational thought processes
- Uses defence mechanisms to protect itself
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Superego
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- Forms at 5-6 years
- Operates on the morality principle
- Internalised sense of right and wrong based upon their same sex parent
- In conflict with ID
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Defence Mechanisms
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- An unconscious mechanism that prevents us from becoming overwhelmed by temporary threats or trauma
- Involve a distortion of reality so are considered unhealthy and undesirable in the long term
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Repression
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Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind
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Denial
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Refusing to acknowledge some sort of reality
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Displacement
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Transferring feelings from true source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target
