Psychodynamic Theory

Question 1

What is the conscious mind?

Answer 1

The small amount of small mental activity that we know about

Question 2

What is the unconscious mind?

Answer 2

Things we are aware of and can’t beware of

Question 3

What is dream analysis?

Answer 3

‘The royal road to the unconscious’ (manifest and latent content)

Question 4

What is free association?

Answer 4

Exploring unconscious but spontaneous word association

Question 5

What are Rochards ink blocks?

Answer 5

Subjects are recorded and analysed using psychological interpretation

Question 6

What is the structure of the personality?

Answer 6

Freud’s personality theory saw the pysche structured into three parts

• ID
• Super Ego
• Ego

Question 7

What is the ID?

Answer 7

The pleasure seeking part of the personality

Question 8

What is the Ego?

Answer 8

The sensible and logical part of the personality

Question 9

What is the super ego?

Answer 9

Really uptight,usually developed through the same sex parent. Punishes the ego

Question 10

Who came up with the psychodynamic theory?

Answer 10

Freud

Question 11

Name 3 ways in which the unconscious motivations can be assessed?

Answer 11

Dream analysis
Free association
Ink Blots

Question 12

Name one way in which Freud theory can be said to be unscientific?

Answer 12

Hasn’t got any evidence
Totally subjective
No scientific methodology

Question 13

What was the determinism in how you act due to unconscious drives?

Answer 13

Psychic Determinism

Question 14

What object can the unconscious and conscious mind be compared to? And why?

Answer 14

Iceberg

Most of your unconscious motivations are underneath the surface

Question 15

How does the ego balance potential conflict between the ID and the super ego, and try to reduce anxiety?

Answer 15

Defence Mechanisms

Question 16

When does your unconscious develop?

Answer 16

Childhood

Question 17

What is Oedipus Complex?

Answer 17

When the boy wants his mother as his primary ‘love object’ and his father out of the way

Question 18

What are the psychosexual stages?

Answer 18

The oral stage
The anal stage
The Phallic stage
The latency stage
Genital stage

Question 19

What is the age range for the oral stage?

Answer 19

0-1 years

Question 20

What is the Erogenous Zone for the oral stage?

Answer 20

Mouth

Question 21

What are the consequences of unresolved conflict of the oral stage?

Answer 21

Orally aggressive

Orally Receptive

Question 22

What are the features of being orally aggressive?

Answer 22

Hostile

Verbally abusive to others

Question 23

What are the features of being Orally Retentive?

Answer 23

Possessive
Needy
Sensitive to rejection

Question 24

What age range is the Anal Stage?

Answer 24

1-3 years approx

Question 25

What Erogenous Zone is the Anal Stage?

Answer 25

Anus

Question 26

What are the consequences of unresolved conflict in the anal stage?

Answer 26

Anal Retentive | Anal Expulsive

Question 27

What are the features to being Anal Retentive?

Answer 27

- compulsive seeking order to be tidy - stubborn - perfectionist

Question 28

What are the features to being Anal Expulsive?

Answer 28

- opposite of retentive - careless - messy - lack of control

Question 29

What age range is the phallic stage?

Answer 29

3-5 years approx

Question 30

What Erogenous Zone is the Phallic Stage?

Answer 30

Genitalia

Question 31

What is the Electra Complex?

Answer 31

- Girls experience penis envy | - They desire their father as the penis is the primary love object and want their mother gone

Question 32

What age range is the latency stage?

Answer 32

6 to puberty

Question 33

What Erogenous Zone is the Latency stage?

Answer 33

Dormant Sexual Feelings

Question 34

What age range is the Genital Stage?

Answer 34

Puberty to adulthood

Question 35

What erogenous zone is the genital stage?

Answer 35

Genitals but not to same extent as phallic stage.

Question 36

What are the consequences of unresolved conflict in the genital stage?

Answer 36

Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships

Question 37

What are defence mechanisms?

Answer 37

Unconscious strategies used by the ego to manage anxiety by redirecting psychic energy

Question 38

What are the three defence mechanisms?

Answer 38

Denial Displacement Repression

Question 39

What is Denial?

Answer 39

Defence mechanism where a threatening thought is ignored or treated as of it is not true

Question 40

What is displacement?

Answer 40

Defence mechanism where emotions are redirected away from their source or target,towards something else

Question 41

What is repression?

Answer 41

Defence mechanism which involves burying an unpleasant thought into the unconscious

Question 42

What are some strengths to this theory?

Answer 42

Led to effective therapies Case study methodology Psychic determinism

Question 43

What are some weaknesses to this theory?

Answer 43

Can’t be used for some mental disorders Lack of scientific methodology Can’t be generalised (case studies) Doesn’t allow for free will