Approaches - Psychodynamic

Question 1

What are the 3 basic assumptions?

Answer 1

The unconscious mind
Instincts and Drives
Early childhood experiences

Question 2

What is the iceberg model of the unconscious?

Answer 2

Conscious mind
Pre conscious mind (memories)
Unconscious mind (motivaton)

Question 3

What are the 3 parts to the structure of personality?

Answer 3

Id - self pleasure
ego - reality principle
superego - moral principle

Question 4

What are the 3 defense mechanisms?

Answer 4

Repression
Denial
Displacement

Question 5

What are the 5 psychosexual stages?

Answer 5

oral (0-18m)
anal (18m-3y)
phallic (3-6y)
latency (6y-puberty)
genital (puberty+)

Question 6

Why are case studies bad evidence ?

Answer 6

hard to generalise
hard to replicate

Question 7

What was Freud’s Oedipus complex?

Answer 7

phallic stage and genital pleasure, boy wanting to kill father to be with mother

Question 8

What strength is there to Freud’s psychodynamic approach?

Answer 8

2500 studies match what was said (Fisher and Greenberg 1996)
Case studies instead of lab experiments