Clinical Psychology Quiz 8 (Week 11)

What is the superego?

Both conscious and unconscious. Inhibition and rules. Sense of right and wrong. Ego ideal motivates us to do what is morally right.

What are the ways in which the unconscious is accessed according to Freud?

Free association Freudian Slips Dream Interpretation Resistance Defense Mechanisms Transference

Of all defense mechanisms, ______ is typically considered to be the most mature or healthy by psychodynamic psychotherapists.

Sublimation

What is free association?

A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

______, according to psychodynamic psychotherapists, is the therapist's unconscious tendency to interact with clients as if the client is very similar to an individual from the therapist's own personal history.

Countertransference

What is the id?

It is made up of the unconscious. Impulses. Demands immediate satisfaction. Pleasure principle.

What is the ego?

It is mostly conscious. Encompasses reason and logic. Moderator between the superego and the id. Reality principle.

What are Freud's psychosexual stages of development?

Oral (Birth - 18 months) Anal (18 months - 3 years) Phallic (3 years - 6 years) Latency (6 years - Puberty) Genital (Puberty on)

What is a corrective emotional experience?

Re-exposure of the patient, under more favorable circumstances, to the emotional situations which he could not handle in the past.

What are some commonly acknowledged defense mechanisms?

Repression/denial Projection Reaction formation (overcompensating) Displacement Sublimation

Ron is a psychotherapy client who senses that certain unconscious material will soon be exposed. This makes him anxious, so he abruptly changes the subject and then misses his next appointment. Ron's psychodynamic psychotherapist is likely to understand Ron's actions as ______.

Resistance

Psychodynamic psychotherapy refers broadly to the approach created by ______ and includes all subsequent adaptations or expansions of it.

Sigmund Freud

What is transference?

The redirection of emotions originally felt in childhood from a patient to a therapist.

The primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy is ______.

To make the unconscious, conscious.