Psychology layout

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Psychology layout

• Every unit is the same format

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6 key areas

• Historical development and cultural context
• Key Concepts
• Basic assumptions
• Application
• Methodology
• Strengths and Weaknesses

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Psychodynamic

• Historical development and cultural context

• Victorian Society
• The structuralist vs. functionalist debate
• The role of Freud
• The role of the two world wars

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Psychodynamic

• Key Concepts

• The personality triad
• Psychosexual development
• The unconscious - individual and collective
• Drive Theory
• Attachment theory
• Psychosocial development
• Archtypes

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Psychodynamic

• Key Concepts
• Know the theorists!

• Freud
• Jung
• Adler
• Anna Freud
• Adler

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Psychodynamic

• Basic assumptions

• The major causes of behaviour have their origin
  in the unconscious.
• Psychic determinism all behaviour has a
  cause/reason.
• Behaviour is motivated by instinctual drives.
• Different parts of the unconscious mind are in
  contant struggle.
• Personality is shaped as the drives are modified
  by different conflicts at different stages of
  one's life.

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Psychodynamic

• Application

• Gender role development
• Psychotherapy
• Personality types/theory

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Psychodynamic

• Methodology

• Case studies - extrinsic vs. intrinsic
• Dream analysis
• Free association
• Projective tests (TAT, Rorschach)
• Ethical considerations

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Psychodynamic

• Strengths vs Weaknesses

• Freud's ideas had a significant impact on
  psychology.
• Freud developed the case study method.
• Freud's theory has had some experimental support
• Psychoanalysis has proven very effective for many
  patients.

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Psychodynamic

• Strengths vs Weaknesses

• A large majority of the theory is unrefutable and
  so is unscientific.
• Theory is based on historical reconstruction.
• There are problems of construct validity with
  several key concepts.
• Sample was primarily abnormal - and limited to a
  certain culture and class.
• Until recently, the perspective was primarily
  androcentric.