Introduction and Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Sigmund Freud
Contents you are currently not aware of
Preconscious
Contents kept out of conscious awareness and not accessible at all
Unconscious
Houses biological instincts
Id
Uses rational means
Ego
Level of the mind with moral and ideal aspects
Superego
Current contents and called as working memory
Conscious
Birthday of Sigmund Freud
May 6, 1856
A useful theory…
- Generates research
- Falsifiable
- Organizes data
- Guides actions
- Internally consistent
- Parsimonius
Type of theory of behaviorists, social learning theorists, and trait theories
Quantitative Theories
Type of theories of psychoanalysts, humanists, and existentialists
Qualitative theory
Concerned with measurement, labeling, and categorization of the units employed in theory building
Descriptive research
Indirect verification of the usefulness of the theory
Hypothesis testing
Characteristic of theory that means precise enough to suggest research may either support or fail to support its major tenets
Falsifiable
Characteristic of theory which means organization and classification and should have a theoretical framework
Organizes data
Characteristic of theory that shall provide answers to avalanche of questions
Guides action
Characteristic of theory that must be consistent with itself whose components are basically compatible
Internally consistent
Characteristic of theories which are equal in their ability to generate research, be falsifiable and be self-consistent
Parsimonius
Extent which it yields consistent results
Reliability
Degree which an instrument measures what it is supposed to measure
Validity
Measures some hypothetical construct
Construct validity
Scores correlate highly with scores of the same construct
Convergent validity
Low, insignificant correlations with other inventories that do not measure the construct
Divergent validity
Discriminates between two groups of people known to be different
Discriminant validity
Extent that a test predicts some future behavior
Predictive validity