Approaches in Psychology: Psychodynamic Flashcards

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The Psychodynamic Perspective

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The Psychodynamic Perspective is synonymous with the work of Sigmund Freud.

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Key assumptions:

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  • All human behaviour can be explained in terms of inner conflicts of mind.
  • The structure of the mind made up of the conscious and unconscious.
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THE Id

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  • With us from birth.
  • Its energy Is called the libido.
  • It constitutes all our basic drives and instincts.
  • UNCONSCIOUS
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The Super-ego

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  • Develops as we get older.
  • It is the internalization of rules passed down from our parents.
  • It is the ‘ideal’ force, the civilized, socially acceptable figure, the person we should strive to be.
  • UNCONSCIOUS
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The Ego

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  • It must balance the drives from the Id and the control from the super-ego.
  • CONSCIOUS
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The Psychodynamic Approach

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  • There is a balancing act between the forces of the id and the super-ego.
  • The strength of each force is a factor in our personality.
  • If a person’s Id is too strong, they are seen as delinquent, anti-social or self-centered.
  • If a person’s super-ego is too strong, they are seen as rigid, pompous, or self-righteous.
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Defence Mechanisms

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  • Denial: Blocking that something is a problem.
  • Repression: burying of the problem into our unconscious.
  • Projection: we project our own problem behaviour onto someone else.
  • Displacement: our problems get channeled onto something.
  • Sublimation: putting effort in to one activity because another can’t be pursued.
  • Rationalization: giving an alternative interpretation to something.
  • Regression: we go back several stages in our development.
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what are the stages

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oral
anal
phallic
latency
genital

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what is the age erogenous zone and conflicts and consequences of fixation for oral

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0-1 years

mouth

Smoking, biting nails, sarcasm, critical.

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what is the age erogenous zone and conflicts and consequences of fixation for anal

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2-3 years

anus

Anal Retentive: perfectionist, obsessive.
Anal expulsive: thoughtless, messy.

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what is the age erogenous zone and conflicts and consequences of fixation for phallic

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4-6 years

genetalia

Narcissistic, reckless.

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what is the age erogenous zone and conflicts and consequences of fixation for latency

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7-10 years until puberty

Previous issues are repressed.

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what is the age erogenous zone and conflicts and consequences of fixation for genital

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11+ years (Puberty and beyond)

Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships.

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Stage 1 – Oral Stage

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  • Mouth (sucking) is the source of pleasure.
  • The ID is in control.
  • Fixation caused by:
  • Overindulgence:
  • Symptoms include selfishness, dependency, compulsive talking.
  • Frustration
  • Nail biting, sarcasm, critical etc.
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Stage 2 – the ANAL stage

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  • Elimination of faeces is the source of pleasure.
  • The EGO (reality principle) develops.
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Stage 3: the PHALLIC stage

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  • The Superego develops.
  • Driven by the anxiety principle.
  • The Oedipus conflict (boys).
  • The Electra conflict (girls).
  • Fixation caused by failure to resolve the Oedipus/Electra conflict.
  • Symptoms include homosexuality, curiosity, exhibitionism.
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Stage 4: Latency Stage

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  • Nothing much goes on in this stage.
  • Sexual energy is put to one side whilst other important physical and intellectual development takes place.
  • This explains why at around the age of 6 children no longer choose to interact with opposite sex children.
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Stage 5: Genital stage

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  • This is the final stage and marks the transition into adult sexuality.
  • Freud was a product of his time and thought the only acceptable type of sexuality was heterosexuality.
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Evaluation
pratical valuve

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Practical value as a therapy
- Allows a person to explore the causes of an issue rather than the symptoms (other aim to remove the symptoms).
- Used for a lot of therapy/counselling

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evaluation
reduction

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Reductionist
- It says all problems are due to fixations in the psychosexual stages but surely, we are more complex than that.

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Evaluation
good power

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Good explanatory power
- Good at explaining the root causes of behaviour.
- Well suited to explaining real-life situations and thus applicable to all our lives.
- Other approaches are difficult to apply to everyday life.

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evaluation objective

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Lack of objectivity – hugely objective
- Hugely subjective.

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evaluation
conclusions

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Unfalsifiable conclusions
- How can his conclusions/interpretations be verified?
- Theories are near impossible to test objectively and repeatedly.

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what is the Oedipus complex

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little boys develop incestous feelings towards their mother and a murderous hatred for their rival in love their father

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what is the electra complex
girls desire their father as the penis is the primary love object and hate their mother
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what is the support for the Oedipus complex
little Hans was a case study 5 year old boy who developed a phobia of horses after seeing one collapse in the street frued suggested that Hans phobia was a form of displacement in which his repressed fear of his father was transferred onto horses. Thus horses were merely a symbolic representation of Hans real unconscious fear the fear of castration experienced during the Oedipus complex