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psy freud
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define hysteria | an uncontrollable outburst of emotion |
| Who was Jean Martin Charcot? | founder of modern neurology and one of France's greatest medical teachers and clinicians. |
| Why was Freud interested in Jean Martin Charcot's work? | to become interested in the psychological origins of neuroses |
| Who was Anna O? | she had hysteria and was treated by Josef Breuer |
| Why is Anna O so important in psychoanalytic literature? | Her treatment played an important role in the establishment and development of psychoanalysis |
| Id | the unconscious part of the mind that drives basic needs and impulses |
| Ego | part conscious and unconscious mind, rationality |
| Superego | moral judgment |
| Pleasure | a psychoanalytic theory that explains how people are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain |
| Reality | the ability of the mind to assess the reality of the external world, and to act upon it accordingly |
| Moral | a standard or guideline that individuals use to determine what is considered "right" or "wrong" behavior |
| What was Freud’s original seduction theory? | A repressed memory of child sexual abuse in early childhood was the precondition for hysterical symptoms with an addition of an active sexual experience |
| How did Freud modify this theory years later? | modified to hysteria was caused by fantasies of childhood sexual abuse |
| What did Freud mean by libido? | sexual drive |
| What purpose did the ego defense mechanisms serve? | anxiety is reduced by unconsciously distorting reality |
| Repression | the use of force to restrict and control a society or other group of people |
| Suppression | the act of ending something by force |
| Regression | people seem to return to an earlier developmental stage |
| Projection | the process of displacing one's feelings onto a different person, animal, or object |
| Denial | ignoring the reality of a situation to avoid anxiety |
| Displacement | a person redirects an emotional reaction from the rightful recipient onto another person or object |
| Rationalization | people justify difficult or unacceptable feelings with seemingly logical reasons and explanations |
| Reaction formation | people express the opposite of their true feelings, sometimes to an exaggerated extent |
| Sublimation | involves channeling unwanted or unacceptable urges into an admissible or productive outlet |
| Acting out | the performance of an action considered bad or anti-social |
| Somatic reaction | an extreme focus on physical symptoms that causes major emotional distress and problems functioning |
| Undoing | positive emotions can help to reduce the physiological repercussions of negative emotion |
| Fixation | The idea that part of a person's libido is stuck in a particular stage of development through overindulgence or disruption. |
| Erogenous Zone | A part of the body that is sensitive to stimulation |
| Oral | focuses on oral satisfaction |
| Anal | the period of human development occurring at about one to three years of age, potty training |
| Phallic | the child begins to experience pleasure associated with their genitalia |
| Latency | a point in life when the child is less influenced by sexual and aggressive instincts. the child focuses more on friendships and learning more about the world |
| Adult genital | people develop a conscious interest in their genitalia, and their sexual instincts become more focused on others |
| What did Freud believe caused fixation in the oral stage? | unmet oral needs in early childhood. This creates a persistent need for oral stimulation, causing negative oral behaviors |
| What did Freud believe caused fixation in the anal stage? | overly strict or harsh parenting during toilet training |
| What did Freud believe caused fixation in the phallic stage? | where a child develops a sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent, typically a boy desiring his mother |
| Oral accepting | passive and dependent in relationships, nail biter, thumb sucker, gum chewer, smoker, overeater, excessive drinker |
| Oral rejecting | verbally aggressive, abusive, sarcastic, cynical, sardonic |
| Anal retentive | excessively neat and clean, overly organized, rigid, stingy, perfectionist |
| Anal expulsive | disorganized, sloppy, destructive with regard to possessions and property |
| Oedipus complex | a young boy's unconscious desire for his mother and hostility towards his father |
| Electra complex | describes a young girl's similar desire for her father and competitiveness with her mother |
| Castration anxiety | boy's fear of loss of or damage to the genital organ as punishment for weird wishes toward the mother and murderous thoughts toward his father |
| Penis envy | the feelings of longing that some young girls experience when they realize they don't have a penis |
| What did Freud mean by identification? | A process where a person develops the characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes of another person such as a parent |
| What is the purpose of this defense mechanism? | to alleviate anxiety by unconsciously adopting the characteristics, behaviors, or attitudes of another person, usually someone with more power or authority, in order to feel more connected, secure, or like they belong |
| What was the client instructed to do in free association? | Say whatever thoughts, memories, images or words that come to mind no matter what they are |
| What did Freud mean by resistance? | a patient's unconscious efforts to avoid confronting painful repressed memories, thoughts, or feelings during therapy |
| What did Freud mean by transference? | the unconscious process where a person projects feelings, attitudes, and desires from significant figures in their past onto someone in their present life |
| What did Freud mean by insight? | the conscious awareness and understanding of previously unconscious thoughts, feelings, and motivations |
| What did dreams represent for Freud? | a pathway to the unconscious mind |
| Manifest content of a dream | the literal events and imagery experienced in a dream that you remember upon waking |
| Latent content of a dream | represents the underlying, hidden meaning or unconscious thoughts and desires that are believed to be disguised within the manifest content |
| What is the goal of psychoanalytic treatment? | to help patients gain insight into their unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories, and how they influence their behavior. |
| What were some of the criticisms of Freud’s theory? | overemphasis on sexuality and the unconscious mind, being too focused on childhood experiences, difficulty in testing his concepts due to their subjective nature |
| Describe how Neo-Freudians, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson and Karen Horney differed in their views of psychological development from Freud. | placing a greater emphasis on social and cultural influences on personality development, minimizing the role of sexual drives as the primary motivator, and focusing more on conscious aspects of the mind compared to Freud's emphasis on the unconscious mind |
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