Psychoanalysis Overview and Key Concepts
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What is the term Freud used for a drive or stimulus within a person?

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What are the two major divisions of Freud's theory of drives?

Sex and Aggression

What is the aim of the sexual drive?

  • Pleasure (correct)
  • Dominance
  • Inhibition
  • Power
  • What is the term for the term for the psychic energy associated with the sexual drive?

    <p>Libido</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud argued that the aim of the sexual drive can be varied?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used by Freud for the love of self?

    <p>Narcissism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term Freud used for a child's sexual interest in their mother?

    <p>Oedipus complex.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the fear of losing the penis?

    <p>castration anxiety.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used to describe the force created when the id's demands are stifled?

    <p>Anxiety</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did Freud use to describe a person's effort to defend against anxiety?

    <p>Defense Mechanisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism forces threatening feelings into the unconscious?

    <p>Repression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form?

    <p>Reaction formation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves redirecting unacceptable urges onto other people or objects?

    <p>Displacement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves remaining at a comfortable psychological stage?

    <p>Fixation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves reverting back to an earlier stage during times of stress?

    <p>Regression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves attributing unwanted impulses to another person?

    <p>Projection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves incorporating positive qualities of another person into one's own ego?

    <p>Introjection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defense mechanism involves repressing the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim?

    <p>Sublimation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What stage does Freud consider to be the foundation for personality formation?

    <p>Infantile Period</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three phases of the infantile period?

    <p>Oral Phase, Anal Phase, Phallic Phase</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What stage is associated with infants receiving satisfaction by destroying or losing objects?

    <p>Anal Phase</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the sexual interest in the genitals?

    <p>Genital Period</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's three blows to humanity's narcissistic ego?

    <p>Humans are not the center of the universe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which unconscious drive does Freud believe encourages the idea of self-destruction?

    <p>Thanatos</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aspect of humanity does Freud believe is shaped by past causes?

    <p>Behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which unconscious drive is believed to be at the root of our desire for sexual and aggressive drives?

    <p>Id</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term Freud believed provided the executive function of the mind?

    <p>Ego</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What part of the mind did Freud believe was responsible for the moral and idealistic principles and began to form after the Oedipus complex?

    <p>Superego</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud argue was the main purpose of his psychoanalytic therapy?

    <p>To transform the unconscious into the conscious</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the strong sexual or aggressive feelings that patients develop toward their therapist?

    <p>Transference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the surface meaning of a dream as reported by the dreamer?

    <p>Manifest content</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the unconscious meaning of a dream?

    <p>Latent content</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud believe was the term for faulty actions?

    <p>Fehlleistung</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that parapraxes or unconscious slips reveal the unconscious intentions of a person?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the book where Freud discusses the various interpretations of dreams?

    <p>The Interpretation of Dreams</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud believe that dreams originated from?

    <p>Unconscious Wishes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did Freud use for the process of shortening or combining an unconscious image in a dream?

    <p>Condensation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did Freud use to describe the process when an unconscious image is replaced by another in a dream?

    <p>Displacement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the book Freud published in 1901 that discusses slips of the tongue?

    <p>Psychopathology of Everyday Life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud believe was the purpose of his more active early therapeutic technique?

    <p>To extract repressed childhood memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the main goal of Freud's later therapeutic technique?

    <p>To uncover repressed memories</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud term the process of verbalizing every thought that comes to mind when using Freud's later therapeutic technique?

    <p>Free Association</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the key components of Freud's later therapeutic technique that he used to access the unconscious?

    <p>Dream Analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used by Freud to describe the strong sexual or aggressive feelings that a patient may develop toward their therapist during the course of treatment?

    <p>Transference</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used to describe behaviors used by patients to block their own progress in therapy?

    <p>Resistance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that all old memories should be brought into consciousness during the course of psychoanalysis?

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Freud use to transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content?

    <p>Dream Analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that nearly all dreams are wish fulfillments?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did Freud use for the process of shortening or combining unconscious material in a dream?

    <p>Condensation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did Freud use to describe the process of replacing unconscious material in a dream?

    <p>Displacement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the term used by Freud for faulty actions?

    <p>Fehlleistung</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is often used in place of the term 'Freudian slips'?

    <p>Parapraxes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud argued that parapraxes or unconscious slips are not chance events?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud viewed his work as creating a new science?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud's early therapeutic techniques were focused on identifying repressed memories?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud's later therapeutic techniques were focused on using free association and dream analysis?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that during the latency period of a person's development, sexual drives are mostly repressed.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that during the genital period, a person must repress their sexual drives?

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which one of these is NOT one of Freud's three blows to humanity's narcissistic ego?

    <p>Humans are not the center of the universe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that humanity is fundamentally pessimistic?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that human behavior is primarily driven by unconscious drives and desires?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that humanity is primarily shaped by biological influences rather than by social influences?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Freud believed that humanity is shaped by both unique and similar factors?

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Freud: Psychoanalysis

    • Overview of Psychoanalytic Theory
    • Biography of Sigmund Freud
    • Levels of Mental Life:
      • Unconscious
      • Preconscious
      • Conscious
    • Provinces of the Mind:
      • Id
      • Ego
      • Superego
    • Dynamics of Personality:
      • Drives:
        • Sex (Eros)
        • Aggression (Thanatos)
    • Anxiety
    • Defense Mechanisms:
      • Repression
      • Reaction Formation
      • Displacement
      • Fixation
      • Regression
      • Projection
      • Introjection
      • Sublimation
    • Stages of Development
      • Infantile Period
        • Oral Phase
        • Anal Phase
        • Phallic Phase
      • Latency Period
      • Genital Period
      • Maturity
    • Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory:
      • Freud's Early Therapeutic Technique
      • Freud's Later Therapeutic Technique
      • Dream Analysis
      • Freudian Slips
    • Related Research
      • Unconscious Mental Processing
      • Pleasure and the Id, Inhibition and the Ego
      • Repression, Inhibition, and Defense Mechanisms
      • Research on Dreams
      • Critique of Freud
        • Did Freud Understand Women, Gender, and Sexuality?
        • Was Freud a Scientist?
    • Concept of Humanity:
      • Determinism vs. Free Choice
      • Optimism vs. Pessimism
      • Causality vs. Teleology
      • Conscious vs. Unconscious
      • Social vs. Biological Influences
      • Uniqueness vs. Similarities

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    This quiz covers the fundamental principles of Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, including the structure of the mind, dynamics of personality, and stages of development. Participants will explore Freud's biography, his therapeutic techniques, and key concepts such as defense mechanisms and dream analysis. Test your understanding of these critical psychological concepts!

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