pcn-107 midterm Exam Questions and Answers

pcn-107 midterm Exam Questions and Answers Freud's topographic model (#1) - ️️ Conscious: thoughts you are currently aware of Freud's topographic model (#2) - ️️ Preconscious: stored information you can retrieve if desired Freud's topographic model (#3) - ️️ Unconscious: thoughts, feelings, and desires you cannot access under most circumstances, although they may be accessed through specific techniques. (compared to an "iceberg"). Explain the purpose of defense mechanisms - ️️ Defense mechanisms are the unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing its source from themselves and others. Ego attempts to reduce or avoid anxiety by keeping material out of the conscious (ex: repression, sublimation, displacement, etc.) Name the five stages of psychosexual development - ️️ 1. Oral stage (0-18 months) 2. Anal stage (18 months-3yrs) 3. Phallic stage (3-6yrs) *Oedipus complex 4. Latency (6+ yrs) 5. Genital (Beyond Puberty) fixation= psychic energy Transference - ️️ unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another (usually client to counselor). Key to psychodynamic therapy. counter transference - ️️ unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes onto the client by the therapis