General Flashcards
Motives
Pleasure- sexually and aggressively
Catharsis
Releasing trapped emotion
Eg by watching a violent film
Swaffer and Hollin
100 young offenders questionnaire assessed anger and health. Suppresses= more likely to have depression
Diff parts want diff things
Dynamic struggles which determines behaviour by activities of unconscious.
Anna O
Symptom of hysteria could drink from a glass, remembered dog licking one then could-unconscious
Id
Born with it
Desires- libido and Thanatos
Pleasure Principles, sexual repressed
Ego
Develop around 2-3 yrs
Reality principle
Make discussions based on the demands of the ID and the restrictions of the superego
Superego
Develops at 5 ish years
Morality principle
Develops from parents/upbringing (eg Oedipus/identification)
What we should be like
Only adult perverts lick guinea pigs
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
Defence mechanisms
Unconscious ego trying to protect conscious ego for anxieties such as moral (guilt) and neurotic (pain).
Can arise if Id or superego becoming too demanding
Repression
Repress traumatic event by pushing it to the unconscious so you ‘forget’ it.
The ego can repress demands of the id or superego
Displacement
Transfer of urges to another
Eg kicking your cat cause your boss fired you!
Regression
When someone’s behaviour like that of someone in an earlier stage of development.
Sublimation
Substituting an activity for your needs, used mostly to suppress sex drive
Isolation
When you have a memory that’s come through from the unconscious but had no emotions with it.
Eg if you can now remember a traumatic event and talk about it without any distress.
Conscious pre and un
Conscious- emotions you are aware of. Eg thoughts
Pre- info you have to think about to remember. eg seeing an old photo reminds you of event in childhood.
Un- not accessible, inner drives, repressed experienced, dynamic struggles.
Maier and lachman
2998 adults did a survey and found:
If loss/ divorce of parent in childhood depression is more likely and they have less self-acceptance.
Freud’s explanation of gender development for girls
Electra complex- in Philip stage realise no penis, blames mother, penis envy, baby substitute. Identifies to get fathers affection so she can have a baby.
Ego eventually represses desires using sublimation to redirect it.
Dormant in latency, in genital redirected at someone else.
Freud’s explanation for male gender development
Oedipus- desires mum (lidido) focus is on genitals-sexual. Sees father as a barrier- castration anxiety, hates father, anxiety becomes higher than desire so love is repressed.
Ego solve id and anxieties by identifying with father, adopting attitudes and beliefs and developing superego and morals that reflect their fathers. (Mum might then desire him)
Psy compared to learning, similarities
Imitate parents to develop gender after birth.
Have supporting case studies-bandura, little hans
Psy and learning differences:
Role model can be anyone not just Sam sex parent.
Learning is more scientific
Psy- identify and then take on behaviour
Learning- imitate then identify
Similarities between psy and bio
Both have supporting evidence/studies:
Money and little hans.
Difference between bio and psy
Psy- Gender develops after birth Bio- gender at contraception nature Unconscious nurture Scientific, scans DNA 50% from each Not scientific, analysis of case studies, id, ego, superego, in mind hard to measure.
