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Sigmund Freud - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theorist who is most known for his
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Psychoanalysis
Levels of Consciousness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A dimension of Freud's Theory
that includes the:
Conscious; Preconscious; Unconscious
Conscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are mental activities
we are aware of
Preconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are feelings,
thoughts and ideas of which we are not currently aware but can bring to
awarness relatively easily
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are feelings,
thoughts and ideas of which we are unaware
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,-Much of human activitiy is a result of the motivation in this area of the brain
Free Association - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A technique in psychoanalysis that
involves encouraging the patient to express his or her thoughts without
editing; the psychoanalyst seeks to identify underlying conflict themes
Dream Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A technique in psychoanalysis where a
dream provides cues to the unconscious conflict of the patient
The Structure of the Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A dimension of Freud's
Theory that includes the:
Id, ego, and superego
*The way an individual's ego negotiates between the needs of the id, the
moral requirements and the superego, and the realities of the world
determines the individual's behavior
Instincts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are life (eros) and
death (thantos) that influence either our construtive, loving, and altruistic
acts, or our hateful and destructive acts
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,Id - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates upon
pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification with no regard for
anything or anyone else
-Cathexis occurs when the id invests libidinal energy into an image of an
object that has the capacity to fill a need
-Present at birth
Ego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates on
the reality principle and is aware of the individual's needs and the realities
of teh real world
-Development of critical skills results from this part of the personality
-It also has defenses designed to keep anxiety level of the individual to a
manageable level
Superego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates
on an internal value system to feel good when he lives in harmony with
those values and to feel bad when he does not
-This structure of personality contains the conscience, which taontains
"should nots" and the ego ideal
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, Psychosexual Stages of Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Developed by
Freud, these are the developmental stages of a child wherein the child's
experiences at each stage determine's adult personality characteristics.
-Pathology occurs when there is failure to negotiate one of these stages
Oral Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age birth - 1, where the breast is the initial object for
cathexis
-The stage represents the child's initial ability to distinguish between what
is part of me and what is not me.
Anal Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age 2-3, where the attention is focused on teaching the
child control over bowel and urinary functions
-Primary area associated with pleasure is anus and sphincter
Phallic Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age 3-6 where the child begins to associate pleasure
derived from self-stimulation with a love object (mother or father)
-It also encompasses the Oedipus Complex and Electra Complex
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Sigmund Freud - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theorist who is most known for his
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Psychoanalysis
Levels of Consciousness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A dimension of Freud's Theory
that includes the:
Conscious; Preconscious; Unconscious
Conscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are mental activities
we are aware of
Preconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are feelings,
thoughts and ideas of which we are not currently aware but can bring to
awarness relatively easily
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are feelings,
thoughts and ideas of which we are unaware
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,-Much of human activitiy is a result of the motivation in this area of the brain
Free Association - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A technique in psychoanalysis that
involves encouraging the patient to express his or her thoughts without
editing; the psychoanalyst seeks to identify underlying conflict themes
Dream Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A technique in psychoanalysis where a
dream provides cues to the unconscious conflict of the patient
The Structure of the Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A dimension of Freud's
Theory that includes the:
Id, ego, and superego
*The way an individual's ego negotiates between the needs of the id, the
moral requirements and the superego, and the realities of the world
determines the individual's behavior
Instincts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔According to Freud, these are life (eros) and
death (thantos) that influence either our construtive, loving, and altruistic
acts, or our hateful and destructive acts
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,Id - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates upon
pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification with no regard for
anything or anyone else
-Cathexis occurs when the id invests libidinal energy into an image of an
object that has the capacity to fill a need
-Present at birth
Ego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates on
the reality principle and is aware of the individual's needs and the realities
of teh real world
-Development of critical skills results from this part of the personality
-It also has defenses designed to keep anxiety level of the individual to a
manageable level
Superego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A part of the structure of persontliy that operates
on an internal value system to feel good when he lives in harmony with
those values and to feel bad when he does not
-This structure of personality contains the conscience, which taontains
"should nots" and the ego ideal
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, Psychosexual Stages of Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Developed by
Freud, these are the developmental stages of a child wherein the child's
experiences at each stage determine's adult personality characteristics.
-Pathology occurs when there is failure to negotiate one of these stages
Oral Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age birth - 1, where the breast is the initial object for
cathexis
-The stage represents the child's initial ability to distinguish between what
is part of me and what is not me.
Anal Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age 2-3, where the attention is focused on teaching the
child control over bowel and urinary functions
-Primary area associated with pleasure is anus and sphincter
Phallic Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of
Development, from age 3-6 where the child begins to associate pleasure
derived from self-stimulation with a love object (mother or father)
-It also encompasses the Oedipus Complex and Electra Complex
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