PCN 107 FULL SOLUTION QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS PREPARATION
RESOURCE
●● Freud's topographic model (#2)
Answer: Preconscious: stored information you can retrieve if desired
●● Freud's topographic model (#3)
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another
(usually client to counselor). Key to psychodynamic therapy.
●● counter transference
Answer: unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes
onto the client by the therapist
●● Free association
Answer: the client is permitted to discuss anything that they want
without any limitations. eventually thoughts and feelings protected by
ego's defense mechanisms can be exposed.
●● Resistance
Answer: anything that impedes the work of psychoanalysis or prevents
the analyst from gaining access to client's unconscious.
●● Dream Analysis
Answer: the interpretation of dreams is the road to unconscious
activities. (manifest content: the obvious conscious meaning of a dream
& underlying meanings)
ACCURATE ANSWERS PREPARATION
RESOURCE
●● Freud's topographic model (#2)
Answer: Preconscious: stored information you can retrieve if desired
●● Freud's topographic model (#3)
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: 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
Answer: unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another
(usually client to counselor). Key to psychodynamic therapy.
●● counter transference
Answer: unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes
onto the client by the therapist
●● Free association
Answer: the client is permitted to discuss anything that they want
without any limitations. eventually thoughts and feelings protected by
ego's defense mechanisms can be exposed.
●● Resistance
Answer: anything that impedes the work of psychoanalysis or prevents
the analyst from gaining access to client's unconscious.
●● Dream Analysis
Answer: the interpretation of dreams is the road to unconscious
activities. (manifest content: the obvious conscious meaning of a dream
& underlying meanings)
