freud
Cards (10)
- background
- ID = sexual and aggressive desires
- EGO = part of the conscious personality
- SUPEREGO = the ethical component, morals
- phallic stage - child becomes interested in their genitals, oedipus complex in boys; begin sexually desiring their mothers
- aim - provide evidence to support his theory of psychosexual development
- sample - one boy, little Hans, volunteer sampling
- method
- case study
- longitudinal
- 2 years
- key events
- Hans developed a fear of horses, using displacement as a defence mechanism as the horse looks like max graff
- imaginary children fantasy - Hans remains with sexual desires towards his mothers but is beginning to resolve and wants to be like his father
- plumber fantasy - identifying with his father, no longer in oedipus complex
- conclusions
- Hans was afraid of horses because the horse symbolised his father Hans was developing sexual desires about his mother and feared his father, so Hans displaced his fear onto horses.
- mental health is a product of over reliance on defence mechanisms, Hans relied heavily so he developed a fear of horses. Hans didn't leave the house so he could spend more time with his mother.
- through identification with his father the phobia disappeared. Without the intervention of his father, Hans’ phobia may have lasted longer, providing evidence for talking therapy.
- strengths
- qualitative data gathered
- ethics followed
- weaknesses
- interpretation bias
- confidentiality broken
- low population validity
- think to key theme - understanding disorderFreud concluded that the findings from Little Hans did provide evidence for his theory, in particular providing evidence for his Oedipus complex as shown by Little Hans developing a sexual desire towards his mother. This tells us that by understanding a person individually, we can understand how people develop phobias.
- relate to the areaassumption - behaviour should be measured using the idiographic approach
- little Hans was analysed using the case study method