FREUD STUDY GUIDE

 


1. What is meant by psychological determinism?.
 

2. The name given to Freud's system is
 

3. Freud's childhood relationship with his mother may have led to his concept of the
 

4. As a young man, Sigmund Freud's main goal in life was to become a
 

5. Freud's initial research interest was in studying
 

6. With regard to cocaine, the truth is that Freud
 

7. Freud learned a great deal about hypnosis from
 

8. The talking-cure method was developed by
 

9. In the 1980s, Jeffrey Masson argued that
 

10. Recent findings by Loftus shows
 

11. Freud's own psychoanalysis was conducted by
 

12. For Freud, the basic structures of personality are
 

13. Mental representations of bodily needs is called
 

14. What are Freud's two basic instincts from which all others derive?
 

15. Focusing psychic energy on substitute objects is called
 

16. Freud's name for psychic energy manifested by the life instincts is
 

17. When you love someone, Freud would say your libido is _______ to that person
 

18. The id functions to
 

19. What is meant by primary process & by secondary process?
 

20. What are the two parts of the superego?
 

21. The ego constantly tries to compromise between the demands of
 

22. The ego-ideal consists of
 

23. The superego is like the id in that both
 

24. What are Freud's three types of anxiety?
 

25. What are the three principles under which the personality operates?
 

26. Moral anxiety results from the conflicting demands of
 

27. Neurotic anxiety results from a conflict between
 

28. A person who refuses to acknowledge the existence of some external threat is using the defense mechanism of
 

29. A person who has a strong urge to torture animals but instead becomes a vocal member of an animal rights group is an example of
 

30. The defense mechanism in which behavior is reinterpreted to make it more acceptable is
 

31. What occurs In the defense mechanism of intellectualization?
 

32. What are Freud's psychosexual stages of development ( in chronological order)?
 

33. A person may be unable to move from one psychosexual stage of development to the next because
 

34. Infants learn from their mothers to see the world as either secure or insecure during which stage?
 

35. A person fixated at the oral aggressive stage is likely to be
 

36. A person who is stubborn and stingy may be an _______ type of personality
 

37. During the phallic stage of development, the child
 

38. The superego develops during the _______ stage
 

39. A boy resolves his Oedipus complex when he
 

40. The latency period is a natural time for learning because
 

41. In Freud's view of human nature, people are
 

42. The latent content of a dream is
 

43. One problem with Freud's published case histories is
 

44. With regard to the scientific validity of his system, Freud believed that
 

45. Attempts to validate Freudian concepts have found
 

46. Research suggests that the influence of the unconscious is
 

47. What does the research show about "slips of the tongue?"
 

48. Define each of these major components of Freud's approach to psychotherapy?

free association

catharsis

insight

resistance

transference

countertransference
 

49. Research tends to support the concept of the _______ personality type
 

50. Freud's idea that aggression is instinctive and universal is
 

51. What did Freud believe was the result of overuse of defense mechanisms?
 

52. How does the superego wield its control?
 

53. What kind of reality is associated with each part of the personality?
 

54. At what level(s) of consciousness do each of the three parts of the personality operate?
 

55. What did Freud mean by an "erogenous zone?"
 

56. What are the two phases of the oral stage?
 

57 What two personality types result from fixation at the anal stage?
 

58. What is meant by sublimation?
 

59. How was Freud's patient "Anna" important to his theory?
 

60. How was Freud's patient "Dora" important to his theory?
 

61. What are the scientific criticisms of Freud's methods?
 

62. Freud had three different theories about homosexuality. What were they?
 

63. What is meant by tautological reasoning?
 

64. What differences are there between Freud's interpretation & other facts known about the "Wolf Man?"
 

65. What was Freud's response to the American woman who wrote to him & what does this tell us about him?




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