Evaluation Of Psychosexual Stages by Freud
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- Evaluation of Psychosexual Stages Theory by Freud
- Sample
- Middle class, Viennese women
- Not representative and therefore cannot generalise
- Middle class, Viennese women
- Low in reliability
- Each case study is unique
- Cannot repeat and get the same results
- Subjective
- Cannot repeat and get the same results
- Each case study is unique
- High in Validity
- Real cases
- Qualitative data
- Indepth
- Tried to be objective
- there is manifest and latent content in a dream
- Low in Validity
- Subjective
- Researcher may be bias
- Subjective
- Cannot be proven / unscientific
- unconscious mind is an abstract concept
- Application
- Used to treat mental dissorders
- access the unconscious mind through dream analysis
- Used to treat mental dissorders
- Supporting Studies
- Little Hans
- Fisher and Greenberg
- Anal characteristics go together
- Walker
- Recall of unpleasant events was worse than pleasant events showing they may have been repressed
- Challenging Studies
- Hadley and MacKay
- Taboo words were recalled more than non-taboo words showing they weren't repressed
- Hadley and MacKay
- Sample
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