6. As a key assumption of the approach, what did Freud believe was the significance of the unconscious?

Our genetics determine our gender development due to the difference between the one Y chromosome.
We have a certain amount of energy which doesn't increase or decrease.
The unconscious mind is the largest and most powerful, and it was almost inaccessible, but he believed accessing it cured neuroses.
The unconscious mind is the part of the mind that we can access if we need to but it's not in our conscious mind.

7. What is projection?

When someone denies a traumatic event has occurred and acts as though nothing has happened, protecting the individual from unhappy or unacceptable thoughts.
When somebody deals with having unacceptable thoughts by saying that they are somebody else’s thoughts.
Keeping thoughts in the unconscious mind so that they are not remembered, as they are not allowed inside the conscious.

When thoughts or wishes that an individual finds to be unacceptable are transferred onto someone or something else, or the urges/thoughts are turned into something different.
Using the comforting behaviours of an earlier age to cope with something which is currently causing a significant amount of stress.
Keeping thoughts in the unconscious mind so that they are not remembered, as they are not allowed inside the conscious.

Develops at around four years of age, and derives from the morality principle and is the “can’t have” part of the personality, which is made up of two components: the conscience and the ego ideal.
Develops at around the age of 18 months and is the rational part of the personality. It's designed to balance the personality.
The primitive part of the personality, often described as the biological component of the mind, as it is the one we are born with, which works on the pleasure principle and is the demanding aspect of our personality, which always wants our desires.

Keeping thoughts in the unconscious mind so that they are not remembered, as they are not allowed inside the conscious.
When thoughts or wishes that an individual finds to be unacceptable are transferred onto someone or something else, or the urges/thoughts are turned into something different.
Using the comforting behaviours of an earlier age to cope with something which is currently causing a significant amount of stress.

Studying a unique individual's neuroses using free association.
A test to looking at personality disorders.
The method of therapy built by Freud which combined techniques such as dream analysis, to enter the unconscious part of the mind.
Analysing the meaning of dreams to uncover unconscious thoughts.

The concept of defence mechanisms cannot be tested scientifically, as the DV is not operationalised.
There are everyday examples of all of the above defence mechanisms in real life.
They are objective as they do not require interpretation.

When someone denies a traumatic event has occurred and acts as though nothing has happened, protecting the individual from unhappy or unacceptable thoughts.
Keeping thoughts in the unconscious mind so that they are not remembered, as they are not allowed inside the conscious.
When somebody deals with having unacceptable thoughts by saying that they are somebody else’s thoughts.

The case studies required personal interpretation.
His theory was unique to the individual and their life.
Freud provided some new treatments to patients with mental health problems, which were otherwise unavailable – his development of psychoanalysis was particularly useful in the treatment of those with neuroses.
The concepts are measurable and therefore are scientific.

Holds thoughts, ideas and emotions which are readily available to be accessed, but are not actually conscious at the time.
The largest part of the mind, which is where all thoughts originate from.
Holds thoughts, ideas, emotions and other aspects of thinking, of which the individual is aware.