PSYC Ch. 9

according to Freud a source of energy within each person that motivates him or herto do one thing and not another. (Freud's view is this energy motivates all human activity)

Freud believed that there were strong innate forces that provide all the energy in the psychic system

life instinct

death instict

is the part that contains all the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that you are presently aware of

any piece of information that you are not presently thinking about, but that could easily be retrieved and made conscious mind.

is that part of the mind about which the conscious mind has no awareness

desire for immediate gratification

thinking without logical rules of conscious thout or an anchor in reality

whereby something unavailable is conjured up and the image of it is temporary satisfying

part of mind that constrains the id to reality

which is the development of strategies for solving problems and obtaining satisfaction

part of the mind that internalizes the values, morals, and ideals of society

strategies for coping with anxiety and threats to self esteem

fear

occurs when there is a direct conflict between the id and the ego

is caused by a conflict between the ego and superego

the process of preventing unacceptable thoughts, feeliongs, or urges from reaching conscious awareness

a person in denial insistes that things are not what they seem

when bad events happen to others people have a tendency to attribute blame to some characteristic of the person, whereas badevents happen to oneself, people have the tendency to blame the situation

a threatening or an unacceptable impulse is channeled or redirected from its original source to a nonthreatening target

generating acceptable reasons for outcoms that might otherwise appear socially acceptable

a defense mechanism that refers to an attempt to stifle the expression of an unacceptable urge

is based on the notion that sometimes we see in otehrs the traits and desires we find most upsetting in outselves

refers to the tendency many people have to assume that others are similar to them

is the channeling of unacceptable sexual or aggressive insticts into socially desired activities

is the unconscious wish to have his mother all by himself by eliminating the father

conterpart for female of oedipal complex (refers to phallic stage)

what the dream actually contains

what the elements of the dream represent

in psychoanalysis a patient is gradually led to an understanding of his or her problems

when a patient's defenses are threatend by a probing psychoanalyst, the patient may unconsiously set up obstacles to progress

the patient begins reacting to the analyst as if he or she were an important figure from the patient's own life