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assumptions of psychodynamic

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  • innate, often sexual drives and early experiences work together to shape behaviour
  • unconscious desires rule behaviour and we are unaware of motives
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p + c psychodynamic: structure of personality

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  • made up of the id (pleasure) superego (moral parent) and ego (reality manager)
  • ego uses defence mechanisms: repression (dreams), displacement and denial
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dv of blakemore and cooper

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  • visual/motor behaviour once placed in an illuminated environment
  • how they interacted with horizontal and vertical objects
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maguire results

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  • taxi had sig more grey matter in right and left posterior hippocampus
  • taxi had sig more volume of posterior hippocampus and sig less volume in anterior hippocampus
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K: what are the 2 pre conventional levels of morality

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  1. punishment and obedience (good to avoid punishment)
  2. self interest and returning favours (not just one right view, reciprocity)
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K: the two conventional levels of moral development

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  1. good boy/girl - to gain approval and be seen as good by others
  2. orientation to authority - rules within society and adhering to law/avoiding guilt
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K: two post conventional levels of morality

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  1. social contract - what society agrees, laws are important but can be changed, room for personal opinion
  2. conscience and ethics - own abstract ideas of justice and morals that may or may not fit the law
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social psych assumptions

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  • behaviour is determined by a persons situation not disposition
  • ruled by social norms (unwritten rules of society) even alone
  • influenced by many people around us
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cognitive assumptions

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  • behaviour driven by the mind, compared to a computer in input, storage and retrieval
  • mind hold schemes (little pockets of info) held about the world to help make inferences
  • ruled by internal thought processes thatt we may not be aware of
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developmental assumptions

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  • behaviour is determined by upbringing and early experiences shape later behaviour
  • changes are a continuous process over lifetime from inherited factors and life experience
  • development occurs naturally with maturity but we are influenced by interactions
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biological assumptions

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  • behaviour has a biological basis - the brain and the nervous system
  • genetics and chemical processes influence behaviour
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individual differences assumptions

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  • what makes us individuals make us behave as such, such as personality and intelligence
  • focuses on differences in people not similarities and our unique factors such as gender identity and sexuality
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behaviourism assumptions

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  • all behaviour is a product of learning and experience
  • nurture has a much larger influence on behaviour
  • begin as a blank slate - behaviour is learned by stimulus response relationships
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social application

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  • travelling to different cultures - helpful to be respectful as everywhere has different norms
  • eg tipping in america / asia
  • simpatia, safe to travel alone?
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cognitive application

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  • mind creating a storing memories - justice system and eyewitnesses testimonies
  • may be manipulated by lawyers
  • keep close eye on leading questions
  • accurate prosecutions
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development application

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  • working with troubled children and young adults
  • violence can be understood by early experience not disposition
  • leads to more compassion in education and care - the possibility to change
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biological application

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  • scientific processes to undertsand the brain using brain plasticity
  • can adapt and meet demands - brain injury and trauma
  • train patients in skills with working regions to recover and function again
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individual differences application

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  • using a range of treatments for mental illness in talking therapies
  • relationship means better understanding of needs not a blanket approach
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psychodynamic application

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explains unusual behaviour due to unconscious feelings such as phobias
- may not understand fear - patient and therapist works together
- can use collection of info - understand and cure

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behaviourism application

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  • behaviour is learned - use schools and conditions
  • kids may be naughty due to consequence of attention - operant
  • punishments don’t work, use rewards and consistently praise good work
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studies for individual vs situational

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hancock, freud, casey
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levine, milgram, bocciaro and bandura

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studies for reductionism vs holism

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hancock, moray, milgram and maguire
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baron cohen, casey, freud, levine

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