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Freud psych test

Title: Freud psych test
Description: Phsych test Freud
Number of Cards: 34
Author: mkmc566
Created: 2005-02-09
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Question Answer Note/Hint
Concious mind what you are aware of at any particular moment

perception, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, etc
Preconcious available memory
things you are not currently thinking of, but if asked to could pull out of your memory
Unconcious everything that is not easily accessible or available to awareness(emotional traumas or memories)

"source of all of our motivations"
ID base needs- the child
pleasure priniciple Id
My demands need to be met now!!
Ego relates to reality
allows us to deny ourselves
adult thinking
reality principle Ego
Take care of a need when it is appropriate!
Superego Work to become the Ideal self- visualization
Rewards and punishment
The Parent
Libido sex drive
life force
realistic anxiety Fear
moral anxiety Shame- threat comes from internal self
Superego
neurotic anxiety Fear of being overwhelmed by the inpulses of the id
Denial blocking external events from awareness
(ego not dealing with bad events)
Repression (Motivated Forgetting)
not being able to recall a threatening situation, person, or event
- results in anxiety when faced with a similar situation/person
Isolation/ intellectualism stripping the emotion from a difficult memory or threatening impulse

(not showing emotion at a funeral, laughing at bad stuff)
Displacement redirect an inappropriate impulse onto a substitute target
(taking it out on someone else)
Projection tendency to see your own unacceptable desires or impulses in someone else

(husband is cheating but accuses wife of cheating)
Reaction Formation changing an inappropriate impulse to the opposite
(cooties but really like each other)
Undoing Magical gestures or rituals that are meant to cancel out unpleasant thoughts or feelings
Introjection/ identification taking into your own personality the characteristics of someone else
Regression movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress
(thumbsucking, baby stuff)
Rationalization cognitively distort "the facts" to to make something less threatening

LYING TO YOURSELF
Sublimation transforming an unacceptable impulse into a more socially acceptable form

(like cutting people- surgeon)
Erogenous zones pleasure zones
Oral Stage birth- 18 months
want things near mouth all the time
anal Stage 18 months- 3 1/2 yrs.
learning to potty train
Phallic stage 3 1/2 - 7 yrs.
(genetalia focus)
latent stage 7 yrs. - puberty
sexual impulses repressed because there is so much learning going on
genital stage puberty on
sexuality for pleasure
The Oedipal Crisis to a little boy:
Mom = love interest
Dad = rival
bigger and badder

moves from fear of dad to identification with dad - they can both get girls

displaces want for mom to girls
Castration Anxiety a fear of losing penis - being cut off from looking at little girls
Penis Envy baby in place of penis
Electra complex girls want dad
displace want to boys
eventually identify with rival mom
hysteria fear or panic and irrational behavior due to surpressed emotional distress
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