Psychodynamic
Thinking
Thinking
Psychodynamic thinking has been continuing to develop over the past decades (T/F)
True
Westen argues that there is currently a single theory that dominates psychoanalytic journals (T/F)
False ... Westen argues that as of today, there is no single theory
The unconscious is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory (T/F)
True
Affective and motivational processes are strictly conscious (T/F)
False ... they can be unconscious processes as well
People who score high on avoidant defenses tend to OFTEN think about distressing experiences (T/F)
False ... they tend to AVOID thinking about distressing experiences
How many postulates are there that define current psychodynamic thinking?
Five
What are the two mental processes that operate in parallel?
Affective and motivational processes
These are the two types of memories
Implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious)
Experimenter Milner's patient, H.M., experienced damage to his ... causing an inability to consolidate new explicit memories
Hippocampus
Defined by the ends of blaming others versus blaming the self ... one of the three affect regulations
Externalizing defenses
What was the time period where mental and unconscious processes were brought back into psychological discourse?
The cognitive revolution
In what point of your life do you start to experience stable personality patterns?
Childhood
Another name for "how-to" memories/knowledge
Procedural memory
Prosopagnosia
Name all three defense mechanisms measured and mentioned in the reading
Projection, denial and identification
What was the goal of this article?
To reconsider Freud's legacy, specifically in regard to the psychodynamic theory
Includes thoughts, feelings, and motives that are unable to be explained by the self
The unconscious
Unconscious fantasies OR unconscious mental representations
Suppression
Tendency to see oneself as above average (ex. intelligence)
Self-serving bias