Approaches Flashcards
Behaviourism
Pavlov’s Dogs
Skinner Rats
Little Albert
Mowrer’s two process model (1960)
Social learning theory
Bandura’s Bobo doll
!Kung San community
Cognitive
Beck’s negative triad
Tulving brain scans (1994)
Biological
McMuffin and Gottesman
Lewis (1936) - 37% parents with OCD
Psychodynamic
Little Hans
Humanistic
Maslow
Philosophy
17th Century
- experimental (disciplined) philosophy
- Rene Descarte ‘dualism’ = body and mind
Empiricism
17th Century
proposed by John Locke
- innate, learnt, data driven
-> origin of behaviourism
Darwin
(1859) ‘origin of the species’
- evolution
-> origin of biological
Wilhelm Wundt
(1879) - establish psychology as its own discipline
- first lab
1. structuralism (cognitive approach)
2. introspection (emotional and mental processes)
John B Watson
John B Watson (1913) - book, pioneers behaviourism
Freud
(1920s) - origin of psychodynamic
- unconscious and person centred therapy
Maslow and Rogers
(1950s) - develops the humanistic approach
- ‘third force’
- free will
- self determination
Digital age
(1950s) - cognitive approach (computer analogy)
Bandura
(1960s) - social learning theory
- bridging cognitive and behaviourism
Advances in science
(1980s) - more biological research due to advancing technology
Current
cognitive neuroscience = biological + cognitive approaches
ID
at birth - biological parts, innate desires
… motivated by pleasure principle
Ego
developed ages 1-3 - mediates conflict
- uses defence mechanisms
… motivated by reality
defence mechanisms
repression, denial, projection, displacement, regression and sublimation
repression
ego keeps the disturbing or threatening thoughts unconscious
denial
blocking external events from awareness
projection
placing your own thoughts, motives etc on someone else
eg hate yourself x someone else hates you
displacement
satisfying the desire with a substitute
regression
returning to a different psychological time when faced with stress
sublimation
stratifying the desire with a substitute that s acceptable like sport
Superego
develops age 3-5 - punishes the ego with guilt
… motivated by morality
psychosexual stages of development
- oral = 0-1 year
- anal = 1-3 years
- phallic = 3-5 years
- latent = 5- puberty
- genital = puberty
oral
mouth
… deprivation of feed = smoking, other sucking activity
anal
anal
… fault in toilet training = obsessive tidiness
phallic
penis
… abnormal family = vanity, self obsession
latent
sexual is repressed = no fixation
genital
genitals
fixation should be present in mental healthy adults
processing schema
- assimilation (add to pre-existing)
- accommodation (new may disrupt old)
… when it doesn’t fit its called disequilibrium