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What are the 2 components of psychoanalysis?
Topographical Model
Structural Model
The structural model consists of? Describe each component.
The id, ego, & superego

Id: drive that seeks pleasure
Ego: seeks the desires of the id and finds realistic ways to deal with them
Superego: the conscience; tells you what's right and wrong (morality)
What does the topographical model consist of? Describe each component.
Concious, preconcious, unconcious

Concious: awareness
Preconcious: available to concious, but are not immediately available
Unconcious: repressed thoughts
What is primary process thinking and what is it associated with?
Primary process thinking involves no connection of thoughts which is seen in the unconcious and the id (i.e. similar to dreams)
In order to control anxiety, we use?
Defense mechanisms
What is the primary defense mechanism?
Repression
Describe what it means to become fixated.
What occurs when there is overwhelming conflict during a particular stage --> this causes anxiety and depression which leads us to repress these feelings and we have no idea that they have been repressed --> leads to personality formation
What is the goal of psychoanalysis?
the integration of things that were previously repressed into the personality
What is free association?
Saying everything that comes to mind without any censoring
What is free-floating attention?
The psychotherapist allows associations to stimulate their own associations in his mind discerning a theme
What is the rule of abstinence?
Pt. agrees to delay the gratification of any instinctual wishes so he can talk about them in treatment
Describe transference.
This is where the pt. expresses his unconcious infantile wishes toward parents and parental figures to the analyst and the analyst acts as a blank screen
What is interpretation?
When the analyst interprets the pt. expression during transference; attempts to make the unconcious material concious & eliminating conflict
What are the contraindications of receiving psychoanalysis?
->40 years old
-Lack of intelligence
-Performing on friends/family
-Having life circumstances that cannot be modified
-Pt. having time constraints
-Antisocial personality disorder
Compare psychoanalysis to psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis --> focus is on infantile conflicts as they arise in transference

Psychotherapy deals with CURRENT conflicts and current dynamic patterns; also doesn't use free association
What are the 2 types of psychotherapy? Describe each.
-in-sight oriented: emphasis is on gaining new insight to current feelings, responses, behaviors

-supportive psychotherapy: when you give the patient mature defense mechanisms to deal with current turmoil
What does interpersonal therapy consist of?
Therapist explores the pts. relationships and taught how to evaluate realistically their interactions with other that may be responsible for their underlying condition.

No transference
What is classical conditioning?
Reflexive behavior occurs in response to a learned stimuli by the process of pairing the learned stimulus with a reflexive behavior.
Differentiate between:
unconditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus
unconditioned response
conditioned response
1. Unconditioned stimulus: Clanging cymbals
2. Conditioned stimulus: Red light right before the cymbals clanging
3. Unconditioned response: startled response
4. Conditioned response: physiological response before the cymbals clang and you only see the red light
Physiological response that occurs without the unconditioned stimuli
Learned response
What is acquisition?
A learned response
What is extinction?
The loss of the learned response when the conditioned stimulus does not occur with the unconditioned response
What is aversive conditioning?
when a unwanted behavior is accompanied by a painful or aversive stimuli