Psychodynamic Approach

• Wilhelm Wundt is considered the founder of modern psychology.
• Wilhelm Wundt argued that conscious mental states could be scientifically studied using introspection.
• what is the psychodynamic approach?

  The psychodynamic approach is a psychological perspective that focuses on the unconscious mind and the significant influence it has on out behaviour and personality
• Who is the psychodynamic approach most closely associated with?

  Sigmund Freud
• What did Freud argue the personality is made up of?

  Id, ego, and superego.
• what is the conscious mind?

  Awareness
• what is the preconscious mind?

  The preconscious mind refers to thoughts and memories that are not currently in conscious awareness but can be easily brought into consciousness.
• what is the unconscious mind?

  The part of the mind that contains repressed thoughts, memories, and desires that are not currently in conscious awareness.
• what is the tripartite personality?

  The tripartite personality refers to Sigmund Freud's theory of the mind, which consists of the id, ego, and superego.
• what is the Id?

  The Id is a component of the human psyche that operates on the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification of basic needs and desires.
• what is the ego?

  The ego is a psychological concept referring to the conscious, rational part of the mind that mediates between the desires of the id and the constraints of the superego.
• what is the super-ego?

  The moral conscience and idealistic standards.
• What are the psychosexual stages?

  Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
• What does the psychosexual stages refer to?

  The psychosexual stages refer to the developmental stages proposed by Sigmund Freud, which describe the progression of sexual energy and its focus on different erogenous zones throughout childhood.
• What is the oral stage?

  The first stage of psychosexual development according to Sigmund Freud, where pleasure is focused on the mouth.
• What is the anal stage?

  Psychosexual stage in which pleasure is focused on the anus and toilet training is a major developmental task.
• what is the phallic stage?

  Psychosexual stage characterized by focus on the genitals and sexual pleasure.
• what is the latency stage?

  Psychosexual stage in Freudian theory where sexual feelings are dormant.
• what is the genital stage?

  Psychosexual stage in Freudian theory where sexual energy is focused on the genitals and individuals seek sexual pleasure through relationships.
• what are defence mechanisms?

  Psychological strategies used to protect oneself from anxiety or distress.
• what is repression?

  blocking out painful or overwhelming feeling and emotions in situations where they experience them
• what is denial?

  Refusing to accept or acknowledge something.
• what is displacement?

  Taking out difficult feelings, frustrations and impulses on a less threatening person or object.
• what is the Oedipus/Electra Complex?

  Psychoanalytic theory concept involving a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent.
• when did the psychodynamic approach emerge?


  early 1900s