Psychodynamic Psychology
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- Created on: 20-05-16 20:00
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- Psychodynamic Psychology - all behaviour can be explained in terms of inner conflicts in the mind
- Key Terms
- Conscious - all information that we are aware of in our brains
- Pre-Conscious - where information is kept until it is decided if it is threatening to conscious thought
- Unconscious - the information the conscious cannot deal with (sexual/violent nature)
- ID - demands instant gratification EGO - reality principle, controls desire of id SUPER EGO - morality principle, right and wrong
- Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development - ORAL, ANAL, PHALLIC, LATENCY, GENITAL
- Defensive Mechanisms - protect ego from threat, REPRESSIONPROJECTIONDENIAL DISPLACEMENT
- Methodology
- Case Studies - detailed study of one person or small group
- Can be longitudinal - over a long period of time, or cross sectional - group of different individuals studied at the same time
- Case Studies - detailed study of one person or small group
- Psychosexual Stages
- Freud believed that children develop through these 5 different stages
- Anal Stage, Oral Stage, Phallic Stage, Latency Stage and Genital Stage
- Freud believed that children develop through these 5 different stages
- Gender Development
- In the Phallic stage, around the age of 5 or 6, boys experience the OEDIPUS COMPLEX and girls the ELECTRA COMPLEX
- Studies
- Little Hans (1909) aim: to report the findings of the treatment of a 5-year-old boy for his phobia of horses
- Axline - Dibs (1964) aim: to unlock the deep rooted problem with was underpinning Dibs' 'abnormal' behaviour
- Key Issue
- 'Is psychoanalysis' effective in the treatment of both 'normal' and 'abnormal' clients?
- Practical
- To investigate is there is 'a relationship between gullibility and sarcasm'
- Key Terms
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