HSP 3U1 - Exam Review Psychology
questions well answered
Psychodynamic Theory - correct answer ✔✔an approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patients
conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings
Psychoanalytic Theory - correct answer ✔✔Sigmund Freud's theory that all human behavior is
influenced by early childhood and that childhood experiences influence the unconscious mind
throughout life
Unconscious - correct answer ✔✔information processing in our mind that we are not aware of;
according to Freud, it holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories; according to Jung, it
includes patterns of memories, instincts, and experiences common to all
Conscious - correct answer ✔✔information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs
the thinking when we take in new information
Ego - correct answer ✔✔Freud's term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality
principle
Id - correct answer ✔✔Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates our pleasure
principle
Superego - correct answer ✔✔Freud's term for the moral centre of the mind
Defence Mechanism - correct answer ✔✔the ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
Repression - correct answer ✔✔a process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from
consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
Denial - correct answer ✔✔a defence mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or
acknowledge something that is painful
, Displacement - correct answer ✔✔the shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object,
person, or situation
Free Association - correct answer ✔✔a method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says
whatever comes to mind
Projection - correct answer ✔✔a defence mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening
impulses onto someone else
Neo-Freudians - correct answer ✔✔psychologists who modified Freud's psychoanalytic theory to include
social and cultural aspects
Neurotic Disorder - correct answer ✔✔a mental disorder involving anxiety and fear
Analytical Psychology - correct answer ✔✔a branch of psychology founded by Carl Jung, based on the
idea that balancing a persons psyche would allow the person to reach his or her full potential
Collective Unconscious - correct answer ✔✔the shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors
Archetypes - correct answer ✔✔universal symbols that tend to reappear over time
Personality - correct answer ✔✔an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Unconditioned Response - correct answer ✔✔the natural response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus - correct answer ✔✔a stimulus that naturally triggers a response
Conditioned Stimulus - correct answer ✔✔an originally neutral stimulus that comes to trigger a
conditioned response after being paired with an unconditional stimulus
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