things i got wrong in mock

• briefly evaluate defence mechanisms as a way of explaining human behaviour

  1. Fisher and Greenberg - meta analysis 2500 studies found support for the existence of uncoscious motivation in human behaviour as well as for the defense mechanisms of repression denial and displacamenet, supports the existence of defence mechanisms.

  2. SOTIVOT- success of psychoanalysis suggests that unconscious defence mechanisms exist.

  3. no way objectively measure them because occur in the unconscious can't be sure they exist due to lack of emprical conformation, cant be directly observed and cant be falsified.
• • Pavlov was studying the salivation reflex in dogs
  • have to do it a number of times to learn association
• 1. a fear arousing event (the ucs) occurs whilst the child is at school eg. being bullied in the playground
  2. Initially the child experiences fear (ucr)
  3. the fear arousing event and school, are paired together in time
  4. eventually the school becomes a conditioned stimulus which will elicit fear ( now cr) even when the original fear arousing event is not present