Psychodynamic Explanation

Question 1

Superego

Answer 1

Forms at the end of the phallic stage and is guided by your morality principle
- if superego is inadequate then the id is given full reigh

Question 2

Types of inadequate superego

Answer 2

weak, deviant, and overly harsh

Question 3

Weak superego

Answer 3

absence of same sex parent in phallic stage so there is no opportunity for identification so feels no guilt

Question 4

Deviant superego

Answer 4

Child identifies with same sex parent who is immoral

Question 5

Overly harsh superego

Answer 5

Srict parenting leads to the unconscious desire to want to be punished

Question 6

Maternal deprivation

Answer 6

Bowlby suggested that your relationship with you mother is crucial to future relationships anf that lack of a mother can lead to affectionless psychopathy and delinquency

Question 7

Bowlby’s 44 thieves

Answer 7

• 14/44 thieves had AP
• 12/14 AP thieves had maternal deprivation
• 2/44 non thief control had maternal deprivation

Question 8

AO3 + research

Answer 8

GORETA
- 10 offenders all diagnosed with superego formation disturbances
- all had desire to wrong doing

Question 9

AO3 - counter reseach

Answer 9

KOCHANSKA ET AL
harsh parents raise children with low guilt

Question 10

AO3 - gender bias

Answer 10

Alpha bias
- assumers girls develop weaker superego as don’t have castration anxiety so have less of a need to identify with their mother
- HOFFMAN: 20 times more men than women in prison

Question 11

AO3 - outdated

Answer 11

concept would suggest that single sex parents or single parents are therefore more likely to have children who offend as can’t internalise morals to have a weak superego