Psychodynamic Approach - summary
- Created by: georgiasadler
- Created on: 01-05-14 14:44
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- PSYCHO- DYNAMIC
- Methodology
- Free association
- Trying to uncover unconcious desires
- Case studies
- Qualititative data
- Not reliable or replicable
- Observations
- Questionnaires
- Interviews
- Experiments
- Dream analysis
- Slips of the tongue
- Psychoanalysis
- Free association
- Correlation designs
- Used to test his theories (Freud)
- Shows a relationship between variables
- Positive correlation
- Both variables rise together
- Negative correlation
- One variable rises and the other falls
- Spearman's Rank
- Perfect positive correlation = +1
- Perfect negative correlation= -1
- No correlation = 0
- Data
- Nominal
- Categories are recorded e.g. yes/no answers
- Ordinal
- Ranked data e.g. rating something on a scale
- Interval/ratio data
- Real measurement e.g. height or time
- Nominal
- Designs
- LONGITUDINAL
- Studies that follow participants over a set amount of time
- Comparisons can be made
- Useful for looking at developmental trends
- Same participants - results not biased
- Difficult to keep all participants for each measurement - some can drop out
- Researcher may change over time - relationship with participants affected
- CROSS-SECTIONAL
- Measures taken at one moment of time
- Cross-section of population if chosen then results are compared
- Gather immediate results
- Cheaper - researcher only has to be in area once
- Easier to organise
- Participant variables
- Many variables that cannot be controlled
- LONGITUDINAL
- Content
- Freud's theory of personality
- Id, ego, superego
- Defence mechanisms
- Repression
- Denial
- Displacement
- Freud's five stages of psychosexual development
- Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
- Freud's explanation of gender development
- The Oedipus Complex
- The Electra Complex
- Contrasting Freud's explanation of gender development with other theories (biological and learning approaches)
- Freud's theory of personality
- Studies in detail
- Little Hans 1909
- Axline - Dibs - play therapy 1964
- Key issue
- Do dreams have meanings?
- Methodology
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