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Mind Map by callieanna, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by callieanna
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Evaluating the
Psychodynamic
Approach
- STRENGTHS
- Nature V Nurture
- Psychodynamic Approach = takes
into account both sides of the
NATURE-NURTURE debate
- Explains HOW Nature + Nurture --> Adult personality
- FOR EXAMPLE: Freud suggested that we have
innate (nature personality structures)
- ID
- Ego
- SuperEgo
- Drive
Behaviour
- Conflict
between
these
elements
--> anxiety
(nurture)
- Repressed into
Unconcious Mind
- Depression from
repressed
emotional
memories of a
family member's
death
- Repressed into
Unconcious Mind
- ID
- FOR EXAMPLE: Freud suggested that we have
innate (nature personality structures)
- Nature and
Nurture contribute
to Adult Behaviour
- Freud's theory provides a
framework for putting the 2
elements together
- CONTRIBUTES
TO NATURE V
NURTURE
DEBATE
- Freud's theory provides a
framework for putting the 2
elements together
- Explains HOW Nature + Nurture --> Adult personality
- Psychodynamic Approach = takes
into account both sides of the
NATURE-NURTURE debate
- Reflects the
complexity of
human behaviour
- Psychodynamic approach =
presents a rich account of life
experiences
- Weaving together
different strands of
development
- Psychosexual
development
- Hidden
Meanings
- Psychosexual
development
- FOR EXAMPLE:
psychoanalysis
- Uncover deep
meanings
- Acknowledges that
understanding
behaviour is a
lengthy process
- Uncover deep
meanings
- Alternative methods of
explaining behaviour =
simpler explanations
- Behaviourist:
'recovery from
mental disorder
can be
achieved
through
re-learning'
- Original symptoms may
RE-APPEAR because the
actual case has been
ignored
- Original symptoms may
RE-APPEAR because the
actual case has been
ignored
- Behaviourist:
'recovery from
mental disorder
can be
achieved
through
re-learning'
- Ignores
Oversimplification
- Examining
root
causes of
behaviour
- Examining
root
causes of
behaviour
- Weaving together
different strands of
development
- Psychodynamic approach =
presents a rich account of life
experiences
- Nature V Nurture
- WEAKNESSES
- Determinist
- Freud saw infant behaviour
determined by Innate
Forces
- Adult Behaviour
determined by childhood
experiences
- FOR EXAMPLE: oral
stage, libdo attatched to
infants mouth
- Psychosexual stages +
Libido = Innate Forces
- Over
Indulgence or
Frustration -->
typical
personality
types
- Oral
Aggressive
Behaviour
- Oral
Aggressive
Behaviour
- Psychosexual stages +
Libido = Innate Forces
- Implies we have no
FREE WILL (choice)
about who we become
or how we behave
- misrepresents human
behaviour
- misrepresents human
behaviour
- May give an individual a
plauisble excuse for
behaving unreasonably or
an excuse for criminal
behaviour
- Freud saw infant behaviour
determined by Innate
Forces
- Claims cannot be
proven wrong
- Freud's theory is
DIFFICULT to
FALSIFY
- DREAM
ANALYSIS or
FREE
ASSOCIATION
- Therapist may argue
that a client who
denied having
homosexual
tendencies is
repressing them
- If you admit to them OR deny
them there is evidence that they
exist
- If you admit to them OR deny
them there is evidence that they
exist
- Therapist may argue
that a client who
denied having
homosexual
tendencies is
repressing them
- A good
theory =
can be
tested
- POPPER (1935)
- argued that falsification is the only way
to be certain
- argued that falsification is the only way
to be certain
- Difficult to generate testable
hypotheses from Freud's
theory of personality
- NOT impossible
- Freud
predicted an
inverse
relationship
between guilt
and
wrongdoing
- Freud
predicted an
inverse
relationship
between guilt
and
wrongdoing
- NOT impossible
- POPPER (1935)
- DREAM
ANALYSIS or
FREE
ASSOCIATION
- Freud's theory is
DIFFICULT to
FALSIFY
- Determinist
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