approaches

• What are the 6 approaches to psychology?


  Behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, and sociocultural/learning.
• Wilhelm Wundt...
• scientific method (Wilhelm Wundt): 1. ask a question 2. state a hypothesis 3. conduct an experiment 4. analyse the results 5. make a conclusion
• 4 goals of psychology are: description, explanation, prediction, change
• the 5 psychosexual stages are:

  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. genital
• defence mechanisms are: repression, displacement and denial
• repression is pushing things that we don’t want to deal with into unconscious mind
• displacement is redirecting emotions towards somebody else.
• when you're in denial you pretend everything is fine.
• what are the 3 structures of personality?


  id, ego, superego
• Who is best known for their research into psychodynamic theories?

  Freud
• The 5 stages of psychosexual development were and are still controversial