Final Exam, History of Psych Final: Freud Psychoanalysis
An example of Freud's notion of projection might be
"I like him fine, but for some reason he hates me."
Conflict Resolution
A boy or girl will identify with his father or mother and Freud suggested that this is conflict resolution from the Phallic Stage.
Ego
Reality principle - largely conscious "executive" part of the personality.
Freud's free association technique evolved from
Breuer's cathartic method.
Freud believed that the superego develops from the
ego.
According to Freud's theory, anxiety
instigates repression.
behavioral consistency
is the concept of personality
Freud called an expression of both the sexual and aggressive instinct
masochism.
From Freudian perspective, psychological maturity might be characterized by
minimal repression and maximal consciousness.
According to Freud, the ego's dependency on the superego results in
moral anxiety.
"Freudian slips" are a product of
preconscious and unconscious forces.
Freud's psychoanalysis rests on which two cornerstones?
sex and aggression
Seeing deficiencies in others that one unconsciously feels within oneself is an example of which Freudian defense mechanism?
projection
The most basic Freudian defense mechanism is
repression.
Oedipus complex
According to Freud; feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father. Little boy unconsciously wants to kill the father and marry the mother. Boys experience at Phallic Stage.
Psychosexual Stages
Freud's structural model of childhood development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages.
Freud gave several reasons why he abandoned his seduction theory. Which of the following was NOT a reason?
He realized that his highly suggestive therapeutic tactics had elicited false memories of seduction
Passive Dependence
Orally fixated adults often display this behavior.
Freud was a ____________ by professional training.
Physician
Anal Stage
Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination and coping with demands of control.
Phallic
Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings.
Defense Mechanisms
Protect an individual from anxiety.
Free Association
Reporting whatever thoughts come to mind even if they are trivial or embarrassing.
Which statement is correct, according to Freud?
Repression reduces anxiety.
Like Freud, Jung was
a physician.
A compulsively neat person who is also stubborn and miserly is what Freud called an
anal character
According to Freud, the genital period
begins at puberty.
Freud's lifelong optimism and self- confidence may have stemmed from
being his mother's favorite child.
In Freudian theory, dreams are seen as
being prophetic in nature.
Freud held that ideas in the preconscious originate from
both the conscious and the unconscious.
Personality involves a dynamic interaction between....
conscious and unconscious mental processes
Freud held that the pain of anxiety is most likely to result in
defensive behavior
Madison is frequently betrayed by his domineering employer. Madison is too timid to confront his employer, but he takes out his frustration by mistreating his dog, children, and wife. According to Freud, this is an example of
displacement.
According to Freud, which of these regions of the mind is in contact with the external world?
ego
The use of Freudian defense mechanisms requires an
expenditure of psychic energy.
Freud claimed that during the Oedipal period, a boy
feels sexual love only toward his mother.
Asking a patient to verbalize thoughts, no matter how absurd, irrelevant, or embarrassing, is the Freudian technique of
free association.
Freud called areas of the body especially capable of producing sexual pleasure
genital organs.
Freud's enduring popularity is most likely due to his
gifts as a writer and his emphasis on sex and aggression.
Jung, like Freud, assumed that the mind, or psyche,
has conscious and unconscious aspects.
Freud claimed that pleasure-seeking people with no thought of what is reasonable or proper are dominated by the
id.
According to Freud, normally, in post-Oedipal identification with his father, a boy
identifies with his father's morals and ideals.
Freud believed that unconscious ideas
influence behavior even when one is unaware of them.
According to Freud, dreams have meaning on two levels, The more important level concerns the
latent content.
The apprehension one feels while in the presence of a teacher is what Freud called ______ anxiety.
neurotic
Freud's notion of phylogenetic endowment refers to
our ancestor's experiences that we inherit and that form part of our unconscious.
The classical Freudian anal character possesses all of the following traits EXCEPT for?
passivity
Freud believed that a little girl's Oedipal wish for a baby is a substitute for the
phallus
When carried to extremes, which Freudian defense mechanism can become paranoid behavior?
projection.
The event that eventually led to Freud's achievement of fame was his
publication of "The Interpretation of Dreams".
A mother who has deep-seated hostility toward her only child but who shows overprotection and hyper-concern for the physical well being of her child illustrates which Freudian defense mechanism?
reaction formation
Amy, an 18-month-old child, resorts to taking her baby sister's bottle even though she has previously been weaned. This behavior illustrates which Freudian defense mechanism?
regression
Adler's notion of moving backward is similar to Freud's notion of
regression.
Freud believed that parapraxes, or "Freudian slips,"
revealed unconscious intent.
Freud saw himself primarily as a
scientist.
According to Freud, a teenager preoccupied with self and personal appearance is exhibiting
secondary narcissism.
Freud abandoned his ________ theory in 1987, the year after his father died.
seduction
Freud abandoned his ______ theory in 1897, the year after his father died.
seduction.
The paintings and sculpture of Michelangelo best exemplify Freud's concept of
sublimation.
The transformation of instinctual drives into socially productive forces such as art, science, and religion is what Freud called
sublimation.
Freud said that in girls, the castration complex
takes the form of penis envy.
Freud's concept of phylogenetic endowment is similar to Jung's idea of
the collective unconscious.
After successful psychoanalytic treatment
the ego is expanded with previously repressed material.
Freud held that the secondary process functions through
the ego.
Freud's oral-sadistic stage is characterized by
the emergence of teeth.
Erogenous Zones according to Freud
the id's pleasure-seeking energies that focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas of the body.
Which issue became part of a bitter debate between Melanie Klein and Anna Freud during the 1920s and 1930s?
the idea of childhood psychoanalysis
Freud contended that the object of the sexual instinct is
the person or thing that is capable of bringing about sexual pleasure.
Gender Identity
the sense of being male or female
In Freud's aim-inhibited love, that which is inhibited is
the sexual aspect of the instinct.
According to Freud, a boy who feels strong hostility toward his father and sexual love for his mother is experiencing
the simple male Oedipus complex.
After the female Oedipus complex is resolved, Freud claimed that it is replaced by
the superego.
The unconscious is
the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware.
The id is primarily involved in which of the following activities, according to Freud?
thumb-sucking behavior
The principle source of frustration during Freud's anal phase is
toilet training.
The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to
transform unconscious material into consciousness.
Psychodynamic Theories
view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of child-hood experiences. Conscious and unconscious mental processes.
Jung disagreed with Freud's belief that dreams
were wish fulfillments.
Oral Stage
Pleasure centers on the mouth.
Sigmund Freud
Created psychoanalysis: the psychosexual personality theory and therapeutic practices/ psychoanalysis. He was criticized because his theories underestimates the importance of biological contributions to personality development.
Latency
Dormant sexual feelings; concentration is on education
Genital
Focus is again on the pleasure zones. Maturation of sexual interest.
Preconscious
Forgotten memories that we can easily recall.
Id
Immediate gratification and pleasure principle
Superego
Moral principle - The process of identification is most directly responsible for strengthening the superego.
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and actions to unconscious motives and conflict. Also a therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders-believed the patient's free associations, and the therapist interpretations of them, released previously repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self-insight.
Unconscious
Sigmund Freud. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Information process of which we are unaware of.
Fixation
Stuck in one of the psychosexual stages, according to Freud.
Which of the following distinguishes sublimation from the other Freudian defense mechanisms?
Sublimation is constructive to society.
Electra complex
The girl has feelings of jealousy, etc. the same as the Oedipus complex. Girls experience at the Phallic Stage.
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
Would most likely predict that boys raised without a father figure will have difficulty developing a strongly masculine gender identity.