In psychodynamics what is referred to as like an iceburg? What are the three parts?
The mind - Pre-conscious, conscious and subconscious.
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What are we born with according to Freud? What is the most important part of life for the psychodynamic theory?
Instincts and drives - Early childhood experiences (up to 6 years).
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What part of personality is the first to develop according to Freud, and is also known as the pleasure principle?
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What are the other two parts and what principles/roles are they for?
Ego: reality - Superego: morality.
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What defense mechanism is when an unpleasant memory is pushed into the unconscious and is not accessible to the conscious mind?
Repression.
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What is it where there is a refusal to accept the reality of an unpleasant situation? (Part One)
Denial.
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Name the other and define it. (Part Two)
Displacement - A focus of strong emotion is expressed upon a neutral object.
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Name the five stages of development that children go through.
Oral, anal, phalic, latent and genital.
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What are the stages called as a group?
Psychosexual stages.
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What is the process that girls desire their father and worry about not having a penis? What is the process where boys desire their mother and worry about their father finding out? What stage does this happen?
Electra complex - Oedipus complex - Genital.
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What do boys fear the father will do to them? And what does the boy do in response to this?
Castration (castrastion anxiety) - identify.
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What type of study did Eysenck run? What % of people with anxiety disorders recovered with psychotherapy? How many without treatment? (Part One)
Meta-analysis of 1000's of case studies - 66% with psychotherapy - 705 without treatment.
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What does the above study suggest about the effectiveness of psychotherapy? What does it suggest about Freud's ideas? (Part Two)
Suggests that psychotherapy is ineffective - Underlying principles are invalid.
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Much of Freud's work comes from the use of case studies, what do we call this type of psychology? What is a criticism of this?
Ideographic research - Can't generalise findings of case studies to the wider population.
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Apart from using case studies, why is Freud's work seen as unscientific?
Concepts are not generalised and are often difficult to test empir
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What are we born with according to Freud? What is the most important part of life for the psychodynamic theory?
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Instincts and drives - Early childhood experiences (up to 6 years).
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What part of personality is the first to develop according to Freud, and is also known as the pleasure principle?
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What are the other two parts and what principles/roles are they for?
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What defense mechanism is when an unpleasant memory is pushed into the unconscious and is not accessible to the conscious mind?
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