Ch. 2 Freud Classical Psychoanalysis

Aware; cognizant; mental processes of which a person is aware.

Mental content of which a person is currently unaware but that can readily be made conscious.

<p>Mental processes of which a person is unaware.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People differ in their ego defense mechanisms, which control the expression of primitive forces in personality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mental health involves the ability to love and to work; psychoanalysis provides a method for overcoming unconscious psychological conflict.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conscious experience often cannot be trusted because of distortions produced by unconscious defense mechanisms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All societies deal with universal human conflicts and lead to repressions of individual desires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Psychiatric symptoms are explained in psychodynamic terms instead of biological terms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Experience in the first 5 years is critical for personality formation; adult personality changes very little.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freud became convinced that unconscious forces have the power to influence behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of neurosis in which psychological conflicts are expressed in physical symptoms without actual physical damage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No sensation of touch or pain on the hand in the area a glove would cover.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individual experiences a highly suggestible state, a trance, influenced by a hypnotist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hypnotist suggests that a particular action or experience will occur when the hypnotic trance ends.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hilgard's theory stating that hypnosis is a state of consciousness that is divided into two or more simultaneous parts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An extreme form of mental disorder.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dreams are praised as 'the royal road to the unconscious'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The surface meaning of a dream; details of the recalled dream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hidden, unconscious meaning of a dream revealed by interpreting dream symbols.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of inferring the unconscious wishes disguised in the dream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologically motivated error in speech, hearing, behavior, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two or more images are combined to form an image that merges the meanings and impulses of both.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A test that presents ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots or pictures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A basic defense mechanism that keeps threatening material in the unconscious.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most primitive structure of personality; the source of psychic energy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most mature structure of personality; mediates between the id and reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers