TMA05 D120 PART A ENCOUNTERING
PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Answer: Developed by Sigmund Freud. Consists of 3 levels of
awareness. Disordered personality due to constant anxiety &
conflict. Ego uses unconscious defense mechanisms to manage these
problems
◉ Divisions of the MIND.
Answer: Preconscious = memories, info, and events.
Conscious = current awareness.
Unconscious = hidden, surfaces, symbolically
◉ Divisions of PERSONALITY.
Answer: Id = Completely unconscious; pleasure-seeking, amoral
(Sex, aggression, etc.)
Ego = mostly conscious; rational, logical, deals with reality ("If it
feels good, do it, but only if you can get away with it")
Superego = mostly unconscious, moral center, contains conscience
(guilt)
• Id = devil on shoulder
,• Ego = person in middle
• Superego = angel on shoulder
◉ Denial.
Answer: Defense mechanism - refusing to recognize or acknowledge
a threatening situation (ex. alcoholic denies being one)
◉ Repression.
Answer: Defense mechanism - pushing a threatening or
unacceptable event into unconscious (ex. cannot remember trauma
or abuse)
◉ Projection.
Answer: Defense mechanism - placing ones unacceptable thoughts
into others, as if the thoughts belonged to the other person (ex.
woman denies being attracted to sisters husband and believes he is
attracted to her)
◉ Displacement.
Answer: Defense mechanism - redirecting feelings from a
threatening target to a less threatening one (ex. taking out anger
from job on spouse at home later)
◉ Reaction Formation.
, Answer: Defense mechanism - forming an emotional reaction or
unacceptable actual thoughts (Unconsciously gay person voices
extreme hatred of homosexuals)
◉ Psychosexual Stages.
Answer: Freud believed in stages that resolve conflicts to dev.
personality. Each stage focuses on specific area of body. if not
resolved people get stuck in development (baggage)
◉ Oral Stage (0-18 months).
Answer: 1st psychosexual stage - erogenous zone is mouth. Conflict
= weaning. Fixation = overeating, binge drinking, nail biting, too
dependent & optimistic, aggressive & pessimistic
◉ Anal Stage (18-36 months).
Answer: 2nd psychosexual stage - erogenous zone = anus. Pleasure
from holding & releasing feces. Conflict = toilet training. Fixation =
anal expulsive personality (messy, destructive, hostile), Anal
retentive personality (stingy, stubborn, neat)
◉ Phallic Stage (3-6 years).
Answer: 3rd psychosexual stage - erogenous zone = genitals. Conflict
= sexual awakening. Fixation = immature sexual attitudes,
promiscuous and vanity, "mama's boy" or "daddy issues"
PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Psychoanalytic Perspective.
Answer: Developed by Sigmund Freud. Consists of 3 levels of
awareness. Disordered personality due to constant anxiety &
conflict. Ego uses unconscious defense mechanisms to manage these
problems
◉ Divisions of the MIND.
Answer: Preconscious = memories, info, and events.
Conscious = current awareness.
Unconscious = hidden, surfaces, symbolically
◉ Divisions of PERSONALITY.
Answer: Id = Completely unconscious; pleasure-seeking, amoral
(Sex, aggression, etc.)
Ego = mostly conscious; rational, logical, deals with reality ("If it
feels good, do it, but only if you can get away with it")
Superego = mostly unconscious, moral center, contains conscience
(guilt)
• Id = devil on shoulder
,• Ego = person in middle
• Superego = angel on shoulder
◉ Denial.
Answer: Defense mechanism - refusing to recognize or acknowledge
a threatening situation (ex. alcoholic denies being one)
◉ Repression.
Answer: Defense mechanism - pushing a threatening or
unacceptable event into unconscious (ex. cannot remember trauma
or abuse)
◉ Projection.
Answer: Defense mechanism - placing ones unacceptable thoughts
into others, as if the thoughts belonged to the other person (ex.
woman denies being attracted to sisters husband and believes he is
attracted to her)
◉ Displacement.
Answer: Defense mechanism - redirecting feelings from a
threatening target to a less threatening one (ex. taking out anger
from job on spouse at home later)
◉ Reaction Formation.
, Answer: Defense mechanism - forming an emotional reaction or
unacceptable actual thoughts (Unconsciously gay person voices
extreme hatred of homosexuals)
◉ Psychosexual Stages.
Answer: Freud believed in stages that resolve conflicts to dev.
personality. Each stage focuses on specific area of body. if not
resolved people get stuck in development (baggage)
◉ Oral Stage (0-18 months).
Answer: 1st psychosexual stage - erogenous zone is mouth. Conflict
= weaning. Fixation = overeating, binge drinking, nail biting, too
dependent & optimistic, aggressive & pessimistic
◉ Anal Stage (18-36 months).
Answer: 2nd psychosexual stage - erogenous zone = anus. Pleasure
from holding & releasing feces. Conflict = toilet training. Fixation =
anal expulsive personality (messy, destructive, hostile), Anal
retentive personality (stingy, stubborn, neat)
◉ Phallic Stage (3-6 years).
Answer: 3rd psychosexual stage - erogenous zone = genitals. Conflict
= sexual awakening. Fixation = immature sexual attitudes,
promiscuous and vanity, "mama's boy" or "daddy issues"
