The psychodynamic approach

Question 1

What is the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 1

The belief that change and development of an individual is caused by ‘drive’

Question 2

Which psychologist is associated with the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud

Question 3

What is the unconscious mind?

Answer 3

The part of the mind that contains repressed thoughts and primitive desires/impulses

Question 4

What metaphor did Freud use when talking about the mind?

Answer 4

An iceberg

Question 5

What are Freudian slips?

Answer 5

An unintentional error that reveals unconscious thoughts

Question 6

How did Freud propose that the mind prevents unconscious thoughts from reaching the conscious mind?

Answer 6

Defence mechanisms

Question 7

What are defence mechanisms?

Answer 7

Unconscious strategies that protect our conscious minds from anxiety

Question 8

What are the 3 defence mechanisms?

Answer 8

Denial, displacement and repression

Question 9

What is repression?

Answer 9

The unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts

Question 10

What is the issue with repression?

Answer 10

It continues to influence behaviour without the individual being aware

Question 11

What is denial?

Answer 11

The refusal to accept reality to avoid painful feelings

Question 12

What is displacement?

Answer 12

The redirection of thoughts and feelings

Question 13

What personality type did Freud invent?

Answer 13

The tripartite personaility

Question 14

What are the 3 components of the tripartite personality

Answer 14

The id, the ego and the superego

Question 15

Where does the id operate?

Answer 15

The unconscious mind

Question 16

What does the id operate according to?

Answer 16

The pleasure principle

Question 17

What is the pleasure principle?

Answer 17

The demand of immediate gratification regardless of the circumstances

Question 18

What does the ego mediate between?

Answer 18

The demands of the id and the moralistic demands of the superego

Question 19

What can the superego be subdivided into?

Answer 19

The ego ideal and the conscience

Question 20

What is the conscience?

Answer 20

The internalisation of societal rules

Question 21

What is the role of the conscience?

Answer 21

It determines which behaviours are acceptable and causes feelings of guilt when rules are broken

Question 22

What is the ego ideal?

Answer 22

What a person strives towards

Question 23

What are the psychosexual stages?

Answer 23

Stages of childhood development that focus on libido

Question 24

What are the 5 psychosexual stages?

Answer 24

Oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital

Question 25

What is the approximate age of the oral stage?

Answer 25

0-2 years

Question 26

What occurs in the oral stage?

Answer 26

The mouth is the focal point of sensation

Question 27

What behaviours occur in the oral stage?

Answer 27

Sucking and biting

Question 28

What is the approximate age of the anal stage?

Answer 28

2-3 years

Question 29

What occurs in the anal stage?

Answer 29

The ego begins to develop

Question 30

What behaviours occur in the anal stage?

Answer 30

Toilet training

Question 31

What is the approximate age of the phallic stage?

Answer 31

3-6 years

Question 32

What occurs in the phallic stage?

Answer 32

Sexual energy is focused on the genitals

Question 33

What behaviours occur in the phallic stage?

Answer 33

Oedipus complex and castration anxiety

Question 34

What is the Oedipus complex?

Answer 34

When male children desire to possess their mother and get rid of their father

Question 35

What is castration anxiety?

Answer 35

The fear of male children that their father will castrate them as a result of the Oedipus complex

Question 36

What is the approximate age of the latent stage?

Answer 36

6-12 years

Question 37

What occurs in the latent stage?

Answer 37

The child develops a mastery of the world around them

Question 38

What is the approximate age of the genital stage?

Answer 38

12+ years

Question 39

What occurs during the genital stage?

Answer 39

Sexual energy is fixed on the genitals

Question 40

What behaviours occur during the genital stage?

Answer 40

Sexual intercourse