6.1.1 - Psychodynamic Flashcards
Concepts
- Id - demands instant gratification, pleasure pathway
- Ego - rational, balances out Id and superego
- Superego - moral conscience
- Defence mechanisms - rationalisation, sublimation, displacement
Weak superego
Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. Don’t learn right from wrong, can’t control id instincts.
Deviant superego
Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. Parents morals are wrong and so the child begins to act in a deviant way.
Strong superego
Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. An individual is crippled by guilt and commits crime to satisfy need for punishment.
Dominant id
Id develops at birth. Need to satisfy the id, may result in crime.
Poorly developed ego
Ego develops at infancy.
May fulfil ids demands in an unsafe and immoral way.
Bowlby
Supporting.
39% of juvenile delinquents have experiences disruption to attachments, compared to 5% of non delinquents.
Unfalsifiable
Can’t be proved.
Case studies
Unrepresentative and unusual.