Cards (6)

  • what is the first strength?
    consideration to both nature and nurture
  • what is the stating sentence? (P)
    On strength of the psychodynamic approach is that is considers the influence of both nature and nurture
  • what did Freud claim adult personality is a product of?
    innate drives (nature)
    childhood experiences (nurture)
  • what does the innate drives include?
    psychosexual stages every child must pass through
  • what can overindulgence or frustration (nurture) in any of these stages lead to?
    fixation on stage & predictable adult personality characteristics
  • what is the linking sentence for this argument?
    Therefore this is a strength because Freud's theory is an interactionist approach = highlights importance of nature (things we're born with) & nurture (things developed thru experience) = offers more holistic explanation to behaviour