Psychodynamic approach
What are the 4 assumptions? - correct answer-unconscious mind, tripartite personality,
psychosexual stages, defence mechanisms
What is the conscious mind? - correct answer-Current thoughts
What is the preconscious mind? - correct answer-Memories and thoughts not currently in our
conscious mind, but that we can access at will
What is the unconscious mind? - correct answer-A store of biological drives, instincts,
repressed memories, and conflicts.
What is the only way the unconscious mind can be accessed? - correct answer-By a
therapist using methods such as dream analysis and free association.
What does the unconscious mind do? - correct answer-Influences our behaviour without our
awareness of it
What are the 3 parts of the personality? - correct answer-Id ego superego
What is the id? - correct answer-Works on the pleasure principle and instant gratification
What is the ego? - correct answer-Works on the reality principle and is the mediator between
the id and superego
What is the superego? - correct answer-An internalised sense of right and wrong based on
the morality principle, which punished the ego through guilt
First stage - correct answer-Oral, birth - 1 year, pleasure focus is mouth
Second stage - correct answer-Anal, 1-3 years, pleasure focus is the anus
Third stage - correct answer-Phallic, 3-5 years, pleasure focus is genitals
Fourth stage - correct answer-Latent, 5 - puberty, earlier conflicts are repressed
Fifth stage - correct answer-Genital, from puberty, sexual desires become conscious
Why are defence mechanisms used? - correct answer-To keep the Id under control and
reduce anxiety
Repression - correct answer-Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind
Denial - correct answer-Refusing to acknowledge reality
What are the 4 assumptions? - correct answer-unconscious mind, tripartite personality,
psychosexual stages, defence mechanisms
What is the conscious mind? - correct answer-Current thoughts
What is the preconscious mind? - correct answer-Memories and thoughts not currently in our
conscious mind, but that we can access at will
What is the unconscious mind? - correct answer-A store of biological drives, instincts,
repressed memories, and conflicts.
What is the only way the unconscious mind can be accessed? - correct answer-By a
therapist using methods such as dream analysis and free association.
What does the unconscious mind do? - correct answer-Influences our behaviour without our
awareness of it
What are the 3 parts of the personality? - correct answer-Id ego superego
What is the id? - correct answer-Works on the pleasure principle and instant gratification
What is the ego? - correct answer-Works on the reality principle and is the mediator between
the id and superego
What is the superego? - correct answer-An internalised sense of right and wrong based on
the morality principle, which punished the ego through guilt
First stage - correct answer-Oral, birth - 1 year, pleasure focus is mouth
Second stage - correct answer-Anal, 1-3 years, pleasure focus is the anus
Third stage - correct answer-Phallic, 3-5 years, pleasure focus is genitals
Fourth stage - correct answer-Latent, 5 - puberty, earlier conflicts are repressed
Fifth stage - correct answer-Genital, from puberty, sexual desires become conscious
Why are defence mechanisms used? - correct answer-To keep the Id under control and
reduce anxiety
Repression - correct answer-Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind
Denial - correct answer-Refusing to acknowledge reality
