Freud's Ego Theory
This describes the “inner child”. It's responsible for arbitrary desires and physical needs.
What is id?
This area of the brain controls the flight or fight response.
What is the amygdala?
This term describes someone understanding a period from their frame of reference rather than one’s own. Involves vicariously experiencing another feelings, perceptions, and thoughts
What is empathy?
This term describes the process of forming synapses.
What is synaptic genesis?
This describes the “main character”. It's responsible for maintaining balance between id and superego. Faces realities that may or may not be consistent with id/superego needs.
What is ego?
This area of the brain is responsible for memory retrieval and spatial memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This term describes the study of how people think about and measure right and wrong and how to apply moral rules.
What is an axon?
This describes the “inner parent”. It's responsible for maintaining social and moral responsibility.
What is superego?
This region of the brain is responsible for homeostasis maintenance, hormone release, and body temperature regulation.
What is the hypothalamus?
This term describes a period of time in which an individual is troubled by lack of identity or rejects their identity.
What is identity crisis?
This term describes the process of eliminating unused synapses from brain.
What is synaptic pruning?
This is a defense mechanism developed by ego that satisfies an impulse with a substitute object.
What is displacement?
This region of the brain responds to pain and pleasure. It houses the reticular formation that’s responsible for wakefulness and alertness.
What is the midbrain?
This term describes the understanding of one’s unique characteristics and how they are manifested across situations and social roles.
What is identity?
This term describes the part of a neuron that receives signals from other neurons and has the appearance of short fibers. They also transmit the signals to the cell body.
What are dendrites?
This is a defense mechanism developed by ego that satisfies an impulse with a substitute objet in a socially acceptable way.
What is sublimation?
This region of the brain is responsible for autonomic and reflexive processes such as maintaining heart rate and breathing.
What is the medulla?
This term describes the status of identity development in relationship to experienced crises and commitments to a role or mode of action.
What is identity status?
This term describes a time of rapid neural/brain growth within infancy.
What is synaptic bloom?