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Study Guide: Page 18 in Chapter 1 "What is Psychology,"
pages 486-493 in Chapter 13 "Theories of Personality," and related
classes
Facts and concepts to understand
- What did Freud believe were the primary determinants of behavior?
- What did Freud believe was the cause of hysteria
- Methods of psychoanalysis
- What is the goal of psychoanalysis?
- What did Freud believe was contained in the unconscious?
- Development and interaction of id, ego, superego
- According to Freud, what types of things are repressed? Why do people
repress these things?
- When and why are defense mechanisms used, according to Freud?
- How did Freud explain slips of the tongue, absentmindedness?
- Freud's ideas on the origins of unconscious conflict, anxiety
- Stages of psychosexual development
Order of stages, ages at which Freud thought they occurred
Key events at each stage
What might cause regression?
What might cause fixation?
Personality traits thought to be caused by fixation at various stages
- Sequences of events in the Oedipus complex
- Sequences of events in the Electra complex
- How are each of these complexes supposedly resolved?
- How did Freud come up with the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex?
- Criticisms of Freud's ideas and methods
- How did Freud respond to his critics?
- Why are useful theories falsifiable?
- Which of Freud's ideas are supported by scientific research?
- Which of Freud's ideas are refuted by scientific research?
- Which of Freud's ideas are impossible to test? Why?
Terms
- Sigmund Freud
- psychoanalysis
- hysteria
- Anna O.
- free association
- dream interpretation
- conscious
- unconscious/subconscious
- id, ego, superego
- pleasure principle
- reality principle
- repression
- defense mechanism
- displacement (aggressive & sexual impulses)
- reaction formation,
- rationalization
- projection
- sublimation
- identification (in general)
- denial
- "Freudian slip"
- oral stage
- anal stage
- phallic stage
- latency
- genital stage
- oral fixation
- anal fixation
- anal expulsive personality, anal retentive personality
- phallic fixation
- Oedipus complex
- castration anxiety
- identification (in Oedipus complex)
- Electra complex
- penis envy
- penis substitute
- falsifiability, unfalsifiability
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