Psycho-sexual Stages
Defense Mechanisms
ID, EGO, SUPEREGO
Dreams
Hypnosis
100
The infants primary interaction with the world.
What is the mouth?
100
When unable to face reality or admit the obvious truth, the ego develops tactics to protect against anxiety.
What is defense mechanisms?
100
The conscious mind (where we are paying attention at the moment), the preconscious mind (things of which we are aware but are not paying attention to), and the subconscious mind (the processes and content that are out of direct reach of the conscious mind) are...
What is the 3 levels of Awareness?
100
A heavily disguised form of infantile wish-fulfillment expressed as a hallucinatory experience in the course of sleep.
What is a dream?
100
a trance like state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced.
What is Hypnosis?
200
A persistent focus on an earlier psycho-sexual stage until the conflict is resolved.
What is fixations?
200
This defense mechanism involves explaining unacceptable behaviors or feelings into acceptance.
What is rationalization?
200
based on the reality principle, we must understand that other people have needs and desires and sometimes being impulsive or selfish can hurt us in the long run.
What is the EGO?
200
Dreams do not mean what they seem to mean on the surface, we arrive to their meaning through...
What is Dream Interpretation?
300
thumb sucking, smoking, fingernail biting and over eating are all...
What is oral fixations?
300
People sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior from the psycho-sexual stages in which they are fixated.
What is regression?
300
The conscious as it dictates our beliefs of right and wrong, moral and ethical restraints placed on us by our caregivers.
What is the SUPEREGO?
300
The subject is required to relax and let their mind wander freely from elements in their dreams to relate ideas, recollections or emotional reactions which they may chance to suggest.
What is Free Association?
400
According to Freud, the girls experience of the attraction to the opposite sexed parent is...
What is the Electra Complex?
400
This defense mechanism acts to keep information out of conscious awareness.
What is repression?
400
Our primitive drives, operating largely on its two main goals- seeking pleasure and avoiding pain.
What is the ID?
400
Modes of representation which occur so consistently in dreams that we can attribute meaning to them. Freud believed these devices were acquired through individual experiences, and should not be regarded as inborn modes of representation, independent of history and culture.
What is symbolism?
500
According to Freud, the boys experience of the attraction to the opposite sexed parent is...
What is the Oedipus Complex?
500
When you have a bad day and tend to lash out your frustration on friends and family.
What is displacement?
500
Freud's belief that the majority of what we experience in our lives, the underlying emotions, beliefs, feelings and impulses that are not present in our conscious mind, stem from our...
What is the unconscious?
500
This guards the access to the consciousness, preventing potentially disturbing unconscious wishes/fantasies or disguises them so that they are no longer recognizable as forbidden, anti-social or immoral.
What is censorship?
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