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After studying Chapter 9, you should be able to
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discuss Freud's analogy that the human mind is like a "hydraulic" system operating by internal pressure; |
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discuss Freud's conception of instinct and the role instincts play in human nature and human personality, and review the basic instincts of sex and aggression; |
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discuss how Freud's conceptualization of the basic instincts changed, from a focus on sexual and aggressive instincts to the instincts of libido and thanatos; |
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discuss Freud's ideas about unconscious motivation and the key idea that we don't always know why we do what we do; |
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identify and discuss each of the three parts of the human mind, as presented by Freud, including a review of the functions and operations of each of these three parts of the mind; |
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distinguish between the unconscious and the motivated unconscious; |
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review Freud's contention that nothing happens by chance, or what has been referred to as the basic assumption of "psychic determinism"; |
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review empirical and theoretical work on subliminal psychodynamic activation, and identify key findings generated by this research and what each finding reveals about the status of Freud's thinking; |
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discuss each of the three components of human personality, as presented by Freud: Id, ego, and superego, including a review of the development and function of each of these parts of personality; |
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review the role of anxiety in psychoanalytic theory, and discuss the three types of anxiety identified by Freud; |
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discuss the role of defense mechanisms, according to psychoanalytic theory--what are they designed to do? How do they operate? Be familiar with the following defense mechanisms: Repression, denial, displacement, rationalization, reaction formation, projection, and sublimation. |
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discuss empirical work on repression, and summarize what can be concluded from this research, and how this research informs Freud's original presentation of repression; and, finally, |
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review Freud's five-stage theory of psychosexual development, and discuss the key challenges and conflicts that occur at each stage. |