PSY311 2. Theories and Perspectives Flashcards
The Psychoanalytic Viewpoint: Sigmund Freud
Psychosexual theory
The Psychoanalytic Viewpoint: Sigmund Freud
- People are driven by urges that are viewed as undesirable by society
- Eros and Thanatos instincts
- Parenting shapes children
- Id,ego,superego
- Five stages of psychosexual development
The Psychoanalytic Viewpoint: Sigmund Freud
Freud was important because he challenged prevailing notions of his era
Driven by motives we’re largely outside our consciousness
New-born babies are driven by eros (life instinct: promotes survival - eating + having sex) + thanatos (death instinct: murder)
The Psychoanalytic Viewpoint: Sigmund Freud
Children were to be seen and not heard
Personalities shaped by early life experiences - what makes parenting important for children
The Psychoanalytic Viewpoint: Sigmund Freud
Id - newborn - basic + animal urges
Ego - age 3 - meeting basic needs in realistic way + keeps the id in check
Superego - age 6-11 - basis for one’s conscious, children start to take on morals of parents
They start to know what is good and bad without being told
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital Birth-Age 1 Ages 1-3 Ages 3-6 Ages 6-11 Ages 12+ Feeding. Pleasure from sucking, chewing, biting. Toilet training. Pleasure from urination and defecation. Anxiety from Oedipus/Electra complexes. Pleasure from genital stimulation. Ego develops. Repression and rechanneling. Superego develops. Healthy and acceptable expression
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Pathology from Unresolved Childhood Conflicts
Emphasis on sexual conflicts - any kind of erotic action
As the instinct occurs, it shifts through different body parts
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Oedipal: oracle told father and son he was to kill his father and marry his mother, then unknowingly fulfilled his prophecy
Every little boy desires his mother and envies/competes with his father, which in turn creates anxiety
Boys identify with their father and emulates them - formulation of gender identity
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Latency: repression of sexual urges and focuses on school
Genital: heteronormative idea of healthy sexuality
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Parents must handle all conflicts appropriately to avoid arrested development and being fixated on a stage
The Tip of the Iceberg
Pioneered unconscious motivation: most psychic experiences blow conscious level
The Tip of the Iceberg
Preconscious: stored knowledge and memories
Unconscious: repressed - violent, selfish, sexual urges
The Tip of the Iceberg
first to suggest childhood experiences contributes to adulthood and personality
emotional development - how love can affect our development
Erik Erikson
Psychosocial theory
• Neo-Freudian
• Children are not passive
Erik Erikson
• Social and cultural
aspects of development over sexual urges
• Eight life crises (psychosocial stages)
– Lifespan development
Erik Erikson
built on Freud’s concepts
Children play active role in development
Erik Erikson
8 Stages - Crises needed to be resolved
Didn’t stop at childhood - went up to 65+
idea that development continues after childhood
Stages of Psychosocial Development
Trust vs. mistrust Birth-Age 1 Have basic needs cared for Mothers Autonomy vs. shame and doubt Ages 1-3 Learn to be independent Parents Initiative vs. guilt Ages 3-6 Responsibilities and conflicts Families Industry vs. inferiority Ages 6-12 Attempts at mastery, comparison Teachers and peers Identity vs. role confusion Ages 12-20 Crossroad,“Who am I?” Society of peers Intimacy vs. isolation Ages 20-40 Form friendships and/or intimate relationship Lovers, spouses, and close friends Generativity vs. stagnation Ages 40-65 Productive in work, responsible for family Spouses, children, and social norms Ego integrity vs. despair Age 65+ Look back at life and evaluate
Stages of Psychosocial Development
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Stages of Psychosocial Development
Right - main agent of socialization
Identity vs role confusion: what is my role in society?
in post industrial society it takes longer to form an identity
intimacy vs isolation: adulthood
more relatable
Criticisms: quite vague about causes of development
more descriptive view and left explanation to others
Stages of Psychosocial Development
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Stages of Psychosocial Development
-Middle is a healthy range
standardized test can inform practice
Problems with the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint
• No empirical proof – Difficult/impossible to research
objectively
• Other good theories exist
Basing below consciousness, difficult to get evidence
II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
“Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute…” (Watson, 1913, p. 158)
II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
arguing for more objective methodology
at the time, introspection was popular - describing mental processes
• Habits as building blocks
II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
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II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
• Little Albert study (1920)
II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
arguing for more objective methodology
at the time, introspection was popular - describing mental processes
firmly assigned psychology to the natural sciences
trying to push it toward hard science
set of goals: prediction and control of behaviour
completely rejected introspection - controversial
accepted evolutionary model of behaviour
animals and humans are the same - humans should be seen as an animal
How children turn out is due to nurture alone
Believes in tabula rasa
viewpoint was quite extreme
Habit: association between stimulus and learned response
Fear could be elicited by loud noise or taking mother away in infancy
Older range develop a wider range of stimuli and responses for fear due to conditioning
Little Albert: 11 month old infant - paired Albert touching the rat with loud noise
When rat was presented alone, he was conditioned to fear
He generalized the stimulus - he was afraid of rabbits
They could only test whether it could be conditioned and if it generalized
Went into industrial-organizational psych after academia
II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
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II. The Behaviorist Viewpoint: John B. Watson
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Did Watson Fail?
- Was never able to predict all responses from the stimulus
- Data never fully supported all his claims • But his lasting impact:
- By 1930s brought behaviorism to the centre of American experimental psychology
- Helped make psychology more scientific
- Ideas consistent with the American ideal
- Bridged the gap between basic and applied psychology
Did Watson Fail?
American Ideal: can do anything
Applied: Dealing with phobia
Applied: Dealing with phobia
Did Watson Fail?
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Did Watson Fail?
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Did Watson Fail?
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B.F. Skinner
RadicalBehaviorism
• Operantconditioning– behavior “operates” on the environment to produce an outcome
– We repeat actions that produce favorable outcomes
– We suppress actions that produce unfavorable outcomes
B.F. Skinner
-rewarding outcomes: reproduce actions
we unknowingly teach children how to act through parenting styles
aggression develops after reinforcement which can take many forms
Radical: maintained emphasis on observable behaviours + different mediators such as emotions and thoughts
B.F. Skinner
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B.F. Skinner
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B.F. Skinner
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Albert Bandura
Social-Cognitive Theory
• Observational learning
• BoboDollstudy(1965)
Albert Bandura
Skinner placed too much emphasis on development from external stimulus and not enough on thoughts and emotions
Humans are more complex
We’re more affected by what we perceive will happen than the actual consequence
observational: learn from other people (models)
Albert Bandura
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Albert Bandura
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Bobo Doll Study
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Bobo Doll Study
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Bobo Doll Study
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Reciprocal Determinism
Cognitive abilities Physical characteristics Beliefs and attitudes
Behaviour
Motor responses Verbal responses Social interactions
Environment
Child
Physical surroundings Family and friends Other social influences
Reciprocal Determinism
-Watson - environmental determinism: child’s behaviour was influenced only by environment
Bandura believed that children were not passive in learning: they had to pay attention, encode info and choose to behave aggressively
He believed in reciprocity
Reciprocal Determinism
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Reciprocal Determinism
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Reciprocal Determinism
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Reciprocal Determinism
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