Philosophy of Human Nature Freud

1. What are the 3 phases of Freud's thought?
    a.
 
    b.

    c.
 

T or F 2. Freud's interest in psychology grew from his interest in Charcot's work on hysterics.

T or F 3. Freud's interest in psychology grew from his interest in Charcot's work on schizophrenia.

T or F 4. Freud assumed that hysteria was caused by some intense emotional experience.

T or F 5. Treatment involved recalling the experience followed by a discharge of the corresponding emotion.

T or F 6. People suffer from an "idea", a memory or emotion of which they are not consciously aware but of which they can be relieved if it is brought to consciousness.

T or F 7. The relevant ideas in his patients typically had some sexual content.

8. What is infantile seduction?
 
 

T or F 9. Reports of child abuse by patients was largely based on phantasy.
 
T or F 10. Reports of child abuse by patients was  based on memories of what actually happened.

11. What are the death instincts?
 
 

12. What are the life instincts?
 
 

T or F 13. All phenomena related to human beings are determined by the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology.

T or F 14. Freud rejected the Darwinian hypothesis that human beings are just one species of animal.
 
T or F 15. Freud accepted the Darwinian hypothesis that human beings are just one species of animal.

T or F 16. The problems related to human beings can be solved by the methods of science.

17. What are the 5 main topics of Freud's approach to human nature?
     a.
 
     b.

     c.

     d.

     e.
 

T or F 18. Freud acknowledged a difference between mental and physiological states of the nervous system and this led him to endorse dualism.
 
T or F 19. Freud acknowledged a difference between mental and physiological states of the nervous system but he did not endorse dualism.

20. What is Dualism?
 
 

T or F 21. All complicated mental states and processes have a physiological basis.
 
T or F 22. All complicated mental states and processes have a physiological basis.

23. What is Determinism?
 
 
 

T or F 24. All mental events have a preceding cause.

T or F 25. Slips of the tongue, faulty actions and dreams all have hidden causes in a person's mind.

T or F 26. Nothing that a person does is haphazard or accidental.

T or F 27. Some of the things that a person does are haphazard or accidental.

T or F 28. Both Freud and Marx  believed that the contents of our consciousness are far from being free.

T or F 29. For Freud the contents of our consciousness are the product of unconscious forces.

T or F 30. For Freud the contents of our consciousness are the product of economic forces.

T or F 31. There are unconscious mental states.

T or F 32. There are no unconscious mental states.

33. What is a preconscious mental state?
 
 

34. What is an unconscious mental state?
 
 

T or F 35. Unconscious desires or memories can cause people to do things that they cannot explain rationally to themselves or to others.

T or F 36. Unconscious desires or memories almost never cause people to do things that they cannot explain rationally to themselves or to others.

T or F 37. Some unconscious states may have previously been conscious.

T or F 38. Unconscious states have never previously been conscious.

T or F 39. Some unconscious states may have previously been conscious but have been repressed because they are too painful to acknowledge.
 
T or F 40. Unconscious states have never previously been conscious and will always remain repressed.

T or F 41. The ultimate driving forces of our mental life are innate and operate unconsciously from infancy.