Psychodynamic Ap.

Question 1

Psychodynamic Approach in a sentence.

Answer 1

The psychodynamic approach includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly unconscious, and between the different structures of the personality.

Freud’s psychoanalysis is both a theory and therapy.

Question 2

What are weaknesses of the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 2

1. it is not very scientific.

2. it involves androcentric gender bias

Question 3

Why is the psychodynamic approach not very scientific?

Answer 3

• Interpreting dreams is not based on empirical evidence. So it isn’t falsifiable.
• Research relies on case studies. So we can’t generalise, so it lacks population validity.

Question 4

Why is androcentric bias a limitation of the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 4

Because Freud’s concept of penis envy assumes that girls always want the same thing boys want.

Question 5

What is psychic determinism?

Answer 5

When repressed trauma in the unconscious mind determines our behaviour.

Question 6

In what ways does the psychodynamic approach gather idiographic and nomothetic data?

Answer 6

Idiographic data is collected from in depth case studies, and the nomothetic approach comes from the desire to apply the theories of the unconscious to all people.

Question 7

The belief that behaviour is determined by repressed trauma in the unconscious mind is called..

Answer 7

The belief that behaviour is determined by repressed trauma in the unconscious mind is called psychic determinism.