Tutorial 3 - Freud

Question 1

What are Freud’s psychosexual stages of development?

Answer 1

• Oral
• Anal
• Phallic
• Latency
• Genital

Question 2

What is the oral stage?

Answer 2

Dominated by the Id

Question 3

What is the anal stage?

Answer 3

When the ego is formed

Question 4

What is the phallic stage?

Answer 4

When the superego emerges

Question 5

What is the latency stage?

Answer 5

A phase marked by sexual expression

Question 6

What is the genital stage?

Answer 6

When sexual feeling re-emerge

Question 7

When is the oral stage?

Answer 7

0-1 years

Question 8

When is the anal stage?

Answer 8

1-3 years

Question 9

When is the phallic stage?

Answer 9

3-6 years

Question 10

When is the latency stage?

Answer 10

6-12 years

Question 11

When is the genital stage?

Answer 11

12+

Question 12

What is the pleasure source of the oral stage?

Answer 12

Mouth

Question 13

What is the pleasure source of the anal stage?

Answer 13

Anus

Question 14

What is the pleasure source of the phallic stage?

Answer 14

Genitals

Question 15

What is the pleasure sources of the latency stage?

Answer 15

None

Question 16

What is the pleasure source of the genital stage?

Answer 16

Genitals

Question 17

What is the major development in the oral stage?

Answer 17

Coming off breast feeding

Question 18

What is the major development of the anal stage?

Answer 18

Toilet training

Question 19

What is the major development of the phallic stage?

Answer 19

Oedipus/ electra complex

Question 20

What is the major development of the latency stage?

Answer 20

Developing defence mechansisms

Question 21

What is the major development of the genital stage?

Answer 21

Full sexual maturity

Question 22

What is the fixation of the oral stage?

Answer 22

Smoking, overeating, nail biting

Question 23

What is the fixation of the anal stage?

Answer 23

Orderliness, messiness

Question 24

What is the fixation of the phallic stage?

Answer 24

Sexual dysfunction

Question 25

What is the fixation of the latency stage?

Answer 25

None

Question 26

What is the fixation of the genital stage?

Answer 26

Mentally healthy

Question 27

What is Freud's triarchical model?

Answer 27

The id, ego, and superego: Freud believed that we are only aware of a small amount of our mind’s activities and that most of it remains hidden from us in our unconscious. The information in our unconscious affects our behavior, although we are unaware of it.

Question 28

What is the Id?

Answer 28

pleasure principle – immediate gratification; strives to satisfy sexual and aggressive urges

Question 29

What is the ego?

Answer 29

reality principle – satisfying the id’s desires realistically; mediates between the id and superego; mostly conscious

Question 30

What is the superego?

Answer 30

internalised ideals - provides standards for judgments

Question 31

What are the ego defence mechanisms?

Answer 31

- repression - Denial - Projection - Displacement - Regression - Sublimation

Question 32

What is repression?

Answer 32

An unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious

Question 33

What is denial?

Answer 33

Involves blocking external events from awareness. If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it

Question 34

What is projection?

Answer 34

This involved individuals, attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feeling and motives to another person

Question 35

What is displacement?

Answer 35

Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object

Question 36

What is regression?

Answer 36

This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress

Question 37

What is sublimation?

Answer 37

Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in a socially acceptable way

Question 38

What are the issues with Freud's theories?

Answer 38

- He based his theories off his work with troubled adults - Too focused on human sexuality - Sexist and overly reliant upon a male perspective

Question 39

What did Freud give us?

Answer 39

- Highlighted importance of childhood attachment to adult psychological health