psychodynamic-EVAL

Question 1

one ISSUE with psychod approach is that there is reserach support AGAINST it.

Answer 1

Golombok found that children from SINGLE parent families form NORMAL gender identities, Freud found that NUCLEAR families children need BOTH parents in order to form NORMAL gender identities.

This goes AGAINST the psychod explanation of gender as it suggests that normal gender identity can be achieved with only ONE parent, and that they don’t need both.

Question 2

What is a further strength of Golombok’s research?

Answer 2

Reliable and valid as it has FURTHER research to BACK it up.

PATTERSON replicated this finding RECENTLY showing that findings are VALID over time, suggesting psychod approach to gender development does NOT translate well to MODERN times e.g. single parent families or 2 mums/dads, so FREUD’s theory lack TEMP validity.

Question 3

One ISSUE with Freud’s theory is that it is PSYCH deterministic

Answer 3

It suggests that gender is CAUSED by the UNCONSCIOUS.

This is an issue because it means gender DOESN’T account for the role of FREE-WILL in gender development.

HARD determinism which is an ISSUE as it makes the theory PESSIMISTIC and that gender is OUT of our control.

Question 4

A WEAKNESS of psychod explanation to gender development is that it is UNSCIENTIFIC

Answer 4

Freud foccusess on the oedipus complex and electra complex in boys and girls which are both based around UNCONSCIOUS desires and castration ANXIETY and penis ENVY so are therefore UNTESTABLE. This makes Freud’s theory PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC as his KEY ideas are UNFALSIFIABLE and cannot be PROVED right/wrong through SCIENCE.

This means that Freuds psychodynamic explanation of gender development LACKS internal validity.