Psychiatry: Developmental Theories
1. Sexual Pleasures: Sigmund Freud believed that personality developed based off of ____ _______?
2. 1. Mouth 2. Anus
3. Genitals: Name the three erogenous zones.
3.Frustration: According to Sigmund Freud if a child does not master a stage it results in what?
4.Overindulgence: According to Sigmund Freud, ____ stems from having ones needs met but the child is reluctant to move out of
a stage.
5.Fixation: According to Freud, what occurs when both frustration and overindulgence lock in some of the libido permanently in
one state?
6.Become a dominant part of their adult personality, opposite is true if the child moves through the stages and has some libido
left over for development.: Freud believed that if a child fixates in a certain stage that stage will what?
7.1. Oral Stage
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency Period
5. Genital: Name the five stages Freud developed. (Hint: OAPLG)
8. Oral cavity focus of libido; nursing, sucking and exploring with the mouth: -
Freud's oral stage is characterized by what?
9. Pessimism, envy, sarcasm, suspicion: According to Freud what occurs to a person if their needs are not met during the oral
stage?
10. optimistic, gullible and admires others: According to Freud what occurs if a child's demand exceeds their needs in the oral
stage?
11. Toilet Training, control issues and the Id vs. Ego/Superego: Freud's Anal Stage is dominated by what?
12. The Id is concerned with the pleasure of expelling waste while the Ego/Superego is influenced by societal pressures to
control the bodies functions.: During the anal stage the Id is concerned with what, while the Ego/Superego is?
13. Child refuses to go or does so right after being told not to in pants.: What conflict occurs in Freud's anal stage?
14. Messy, Disorganized, Reckless, carless and defiant: If a parent is too lenient during
Freud's anal stage it will lead to that child becoming what?
15 Become neat, precise, orderly, careful, stingy, meticulous and passive ag-
gressive: According to Freud, if a parent is too overindulgent (Claps/ gives presents) when a child is toilet training that child will
what?
16. Obsession with genitals, self pleasuring, castration anxiety and penis envy, Oedipus and Electra complex: Freud's phallic
stage is characterized by what?
17. Women: Freud believed that what group of people are slightly fixated in the phallic stage?
18. Reckless, self-assured, narcissistic, vain and proud. These people can not be
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, in a love relationship: According to Freud those who are fixated in the phallic stage are more likely to be what?
19. False: True or false is the latency period a stage according to Freud?
20. A time of sexual dormancy, where school, athletics and same sex friendships (asexual pursuits) are the most important
things.: Freud characterizes the latency period as being what?
21. A focus on the genitals, heterosexual relationships, superego (moral compass) is more developed, sexual pleasure with
one another, focus on relationships outside of the family: According to Freud the genital stage is characterized by what?
22. Form relationships with the opposite sex: Freud believed that less energy given to the stages before the genital stage left
individuals who were unable to do what?
23. Trouble with repression, defenses and neurosis (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior): Freud believed that fixation in
the genital stage resulted in what?
24. The Id controls all of our wants and needs. Is all about instant gratification. ME. ME. ME.: What is the Id?
25. The ego deals more with reality, tries to bridge the needs of the Id with more socially acceptable behavior. Thinks of
others, knows their needs.: What is the ego?
26. Develops last based on morals and judgements.: What is the superego?
27. The ego will consider what others will think and the consequences while the superego will input values and a moral
compass.: In decision making the ego considers what, while the superego will put in what?
28. 1. Compensation
2. Denial
3. Displacement
4. Introjection
5. Minimization
6. Projection
7. Rationalization
8. Reaction Formation
9. Regression
10. Identification
11. Intellectualization: Name the eleven ego defense mechanisms.
29. Compensation: Name the term used for when one covers their weaknesses with a more desirable trait. An example being
a man buys a large truck that makes lots of noise because he has a small penis.
30. Denial: Attempt to screen or ignore unacceptable realities by refusing to acknowledge them. Example: A patient with
cancer is told they have three months left to live and then they go book a vacation a year from now.
31. Displacement: Transferring or discharging of emotional reactions from one object/person to another object/person.
Example: Husband is mad at wife and hits door instead of wife.
32. Introjection: Accepts other norms and values as their own when contrary to the ones they believe in. Example: You make
new friends who are alcoholics so you start drinking even though you don't like to.
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1. Sexual Pleasures: Sigmund Freud believed that personality developed based off of ____ _______?
2. 1. Mouth 2. Anus
3. Genitals: Name the three erogenous zones.
3.Frustration: According to Sigmund Freud if a child does not master a stage it results in what?
4.Overindulgence: According to Sigmund Freud, ____ stems from having ones needs met but the child is reluctant to move out of
a stage.
5.Fixation: According to Freud, what occurs when both frustration and overindulgence lock in some of the libido permanently in
one state?
6.Become a dominant part of their adult personality, opposite is true if the child moves through the stages and has some libido
left over for development.: Freud believed that if a child fixates in a certain stage that stage will what?
7.1. Oral Stage
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency Period
5. Genital: Name the five stages Freud developed. (Hint: OAPLG)
8. Oral cavity focus of libido; nursing, sucking and exploring with the mouth: -
Freud's oral stage is characterized by what?
9. Pessimism, envy, sarcasm, suspicion: According to Freud what occurs to a person if their needs are not met during the oral
stage?
10. optimistic, gullible and admires others: According to Freud what occurs if a child's demand exceeds their needs in the oral
stage?
11. Toilet Training, control issues and the Id vs. Ego/Superego: Freud's Anal Stage is dominated by what?
12. The Id is concerned with the pleasure of expelling waste while the Ego/Superego is influenced by societal pressures to
control the bodies functions.: During the anal stage the Id is concerned with what, while the Ego/Superego is?
13. Child refuses to go or does so right after being told not to in pants.: What conflict occurs in Freud's anal stage?
14. Messy, Disorganized, Reckless, carless and defiant: If a parent is too lenient during
Freud's anal stage it will lead to that child becoming what?
15 Become neat, precise, orderly, careful, stingy, meticulous and passive ag-
gressive: According to Freud, if a parent is too overindulgent (Claps/ gives presents) when a child is toilet training that child will
what?
16. Obsession with genitals, self pleasuring, castration anxiety and penis envy, Oedipus and Electra complex: Freud's phallic
stage is characterized by what?
17. Women: Freud believed that what group of people are slightly fixated in the phallic stage?
18. Reckless, self-assured, narcissistic, vain and proud. These people can not be
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, in a love relationship: According to Freud those who are fixated in the phallic stage are more likely to be what?
19. False: True or false is the latency period a stage according to Freud?
20. A time of sexual dormancy, where school, athletics and same sex friendships (asexual pursuits) are the most important
things.: Freud characterizes the latency period as being what?
21. A focus on the genitals, heterosexual relationships, superego (moral compass) is more developed, sexual pleasure with
one another, focus on relationships outside of the family: According to Freud the genital stage is characterized by what?
22. Form relationships with the opposite sex: Freud believed that less energy given to the stages before the genital stage left
individuals who were unable to do what?
23. Trouble with repression, defenses and neurosis (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior): Freud believed that fixation in
the genital stage resulted in what?
24. The Id controls all of our wants and needs. Is all about instant gratification. ME. ME. ME.: What is the Id?
25. The ego deals more with reality, tries to bridge the needs of the Id with more socially acceptable behavior. Thinks of
others, knows their needs.: What is the ego?
26. Develops last based on morals and judgements.: What is the superego?
27. The ego will consider what others will think and the consequences while the superego will input values and a moral
compass.: In decision making the ego considers what, while the superego will put in what?
28. 1. Compensation
2. Denial
3. Displacement
4. Introjection
5. Minimization
6. Projection
7. Rationalization
8. Reaction Formation
9. Regression
10. Identification
11. Intellectualization: Name the eleven ego defense mechanisms.
29. Compensation: Name the term used for when one covers their weaknesses with a more desirable trait. An example being
a man buys a large truck that makes lots of noise because he has a small penis.
30. Denial: Attempt to screen or ignore unacceptable realities by refusing to acknowledge them. Example: A patient with
cancer is told they have three months left to live and then they go book a vacation a year from now.
31. Displacement: Transferring or discharging of emotional reactions from one object/person to another object/person.
Example: Husband is mad at wife and hits door instead of wife.
32. Introjection: Accepts other norms and values as their own when contrary to the ones they believe in. Example: You make
new friends who are alcoholics so you start drinking even though you don't like to.
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