Exam 16: Unconscious Motivation

According to Sigmund Freud, motivation arises from id-based instinctual drives (i.e., Eros and Thanatos). According to the NeoFreudians (Hartmann, White, and Anna Freud), motivation can further arise from the ego. Identify and briefly discuss the nature of this ego-based motivation.

_______refers to the process of forgetting information or an experience in a way that is unconscious, unintentional, and automatic.

The ______runs on automatic pilot as it carries out countless computations and innumerable adjustments during acts such as driving a car and playing the piano.

What evidence can you bring to bear in answering the question, "Do the id and ego personality structures actually physically exist?"

Outline "terror management theory".In doing so, explain how this theory explains low anxiety.

The brain structure that corresponds best to ego functions and principles is the:

Research on object relations theory revolves around understanding the motivational significance of people's:

Object relations theory focuses on how childhood mental representations of one's caretakers are captured within the child's personality and persist into adulthood. Describe the nature of the mental representations that persist into adulthood.

Summarize Freud's dual-instinct theory of motivation-his hydraulic theory of motivation in which energies emanate from instinctual drives.

The subject matter of psychoanalysis is:

Explain the role of implicit motivation in the motivation and regulation of behavior.

Explain the conditions under which thought suppression produces a rebound effect for the unwanted thought.What can a person do to prevent this rebound effect from becoming an obsession? If so, how?

Which of the following individuals is most likely to experience depression? The person with:

______theory studies how people satisfy the psychological need for relatedness through the mental representation of, and actual attachments to, other people.

Research on subliminal processes, such as department store broadcasts of "If you steal, you will get caught," shows that such subliminal marketing messages routinely:

Contrast the key features of the adaptive conscious vs.the conscious mind.

The goal of psychoanalytic therapy has always been to:

To test "terror management theory", researchers routinely use a ______manipulation.

The following features describe what aspect of the unconscious mind?: Automatic, intuitive, fast, efficient, and first impressions.