Psychodynamic

• What is meant by the conscious mind?

  Thoughts we are aware of and can talk about
• what is meany by pre conscious thoughts?

  not immediately accessible but can be brought into conscious awareness
• what is meant by the unconscious mind?

  thoughts not accessible to awareness but influence our behaviour
• what are some unconscious mind examples?

  • desires
  • impulses
  • repressed memories
• what is psychic determinism?

  our behaviours are shaped by unresolved unconscious conflicts
• what is fixation?

  an individual remains stuck in a particular psychosexual stage and expresses negative personality traits
• how does the unconscious mind protect the conscious?

  protects from harmful thoughts and reduces anxiety through defence mechanisms
• what is the ID?

  • focuses on satisfying personal needs and desires
  • pleasure principle
• what is the ego?

  • uses rational thinking to manage ID’s demands
  • allows interaction with world in a realistic manner
  • reality principle
• what is superego?

  • induces guilt when an individuals actions conflict with its strict standards
  • morality principle
• what did Freud say criminal behaviour could be due to?

  weak superego that allows IDs desires to dominate
• why might an overly strong superego lead to criminal acts?

  to justify the extreme guilt induced by the superego
• explain psychosexual stages?

  • Children move through stages where they must resolve an unconscious conflict
  • If stuck, the person becomes fixated and can develop metal disorders called neuroses
• what year is the anal stage?

  1 - 3 years
• what are the psychosexual stages.?

  • oral stage
  • anal stage
  • phallic stage
  • latency stage
  • genital stage
• what year is the phallic stage?

  3 - 5 years
• what year is the oral stage?

  0-1 years
• what year s the latency stage?

  6 - 12 years
• what year is the genital stage?

  above 12
• what happens in the oral stage?

  • pleasure from mouth during breastfeeding
  • fixation results in an immature personality
• what happens in the anal stage?

  • childs gets pleasure from expelling faeces
  • fixation results in anal retentive (overly organised)
• what happens in the phallic stage?

  • boys and Oedipus complex
  • girls and electra complex
• what is the oedipus complex?

  boys have a sexual desire for their mother and feel castration anxiety that father will find out and remove gentials. cannot compete with him so imitate his behaviour
• what is the electra complex?

  girls form attachment to father but dislike their mother
• what happens in the latency stage?

  previous conflicts, desires from childhood are repressed into unconscious
• what happens in the genital stage?

  sexual desires now conscious
• What is denial?

  Refusal to accept reality of a situation
• what is displacement?

  strong emotion moved from the source of the emotions and placed onto a substitute target
• what is repression?

  unpleasant memory or emotion placed into unconscious mind and no longer accessible to conscious mind