Psych Exam 1 Questions Part 3

Front 1

fixation

Back 1

arrested psychosexual development when crisis is not negotiated successfully (over or under stimulation)

Front 2

oral stage

Back 2

Birth to 18 months
-oral incorporative (0-6 mos)
*breast feeding provides libidinal pleasure
*trust, dependency, receptivity, gullibility develop
-oral sadistic (6-18 mos)
*teething leads to pleasure from biting, chewing
*verbal aggressiveness

crisis: weaning

Front 3

anal stage

Back 3

18 months-3 years
crisis: toilet training
anal expulsive: messy, cruel, destructive, hostile
anal retentive: rigid, obsessive, stingy, obstinacy, orderliness

Front 4

phallic stage

Back 4

3-5 years
phallus is the source of pleasure
crisis: oedipus complex (mother is love object, father is rival)

Front 5

castration anxiety

Back 5

boys fears that their fathers will castrate them if they steal mom
*leads boys to renounce mother and align with father

Front 6

penis envy

Back 6

girls blame mom for having no penis, align with dad, realize they cant have dad and so desire to be just like mom to get a dad of their own

Front 7

introjection

Back 7

process of incorporating values from an external source (ie parents and through them society)
*how the superego is formed during the phallic/latency stage

Front 8

latency period

Back 8

6-12 years
sexual impulses are repressed into the unconscious, while attention is focused on other pursuits and the superego and ego strengthen

Front 9

infantile amnesia

Back 9

adults remember nothing from the latency period on of the phallic stage and Oedipal comlex

Front 10

genital stage

Back 10

13 years-adult
libidinal energy organized around the genitals and the focus is on mutual sexual gratification

Front 11

repression

Back 11

unconsciously forcing something out of the conscious (like Id impulses or painful or upsetting info., actions, or memories)

Front 12

suppression

Back 12

a conscious effort to forgetting upsetting information

Front 13

isolation of affect

Back 13

link between cognitive and affective components of a desire, memory, or event is severed (may recall an upsetting event without emotion or experience isolated emotions separately)

Front 14

denial

Back 14

refusal to believe an event took place
*primitive and takes a lot of energy

Front 15

projection

Back 15

attribution of unacceptable impulses, desires, or qualities to someone else
*expresses Id impulse in a masked way not recognized by the Id or Superego
*blame and condemnation directed toward others satisfied the superego

Front 16

rationalization

Back 16

attributing an action done for unacceptable reasons to reasons acceptable to the superego
*maintains self-esteem and allows gratification of impulses that would otherwise trigger guilt