psychodynamic approach

• assumptions: behaviours could be explained by unresolved unconscious conflicts
• what does this approach say behaviour is caused by?


  underlying psychology conflicts that we are unaware of
• who is the psychologist of this approach?


  freud (1900-1905)
• assumptions 


  behaviour is caused by underlying psychological conflicts that we are unaware of
• assummotions


  focusing on early child - parent relationships and past experiences. believes psychological conflicts are in these relationships
• structure of the mind


  this

  
• what are the tripartite structure of personality 


  ID, ego and super ego
• what is the id


  first part of personality

  inherited

  pleasure principle
• what’s the ego?


  reality

  develops from ID

  located in the unconscious preconscious and conscious mind
• what’s the super ego


  morality

  demands for perfection
• what are the three defense mechanisms


  repression

  denial

  displacement
• what is repression


  “motivated forgetting”

  blocking out negative emotions

  eg phobia
• what is denial?


  Refusing to accept or acknowledge something.

  ignores the fact

  make yourself believe it didn’t happen

  eg “i’m right you’re wrong”
• what is displacement 


  redirecting thoughts feelings and impulses from one object to another object

  eg taking it out on the wrong person
• what are the psychosexual stages?


  oral,anal,phallic,latency and genital
• how to remember the psychosexual stages :

  old age pensioners love gin/gossip/grapes
• what’s the oedipus complex?


  desire for parent of opposite sex, jealousy of parent of same sex.
• how is the oedipus complex resolved 


  identification
• what is the electra complex?


  Psychoanalytic theory concept describing a girl's unconscious sexual desire for her father and rivalry with her mother.
• how is the electra complex resolve


  identifying with her mother
• what is freuds famous case

  little hans
• strength of this approach

  explanatory power
• strength of this approach 


  practical application in the real life
• limitation of this approach 


  criticised
• limitation of this approach 


  untestable concepts