Professional Documents
Culture Documents
WK 1 Brochure Psy 405 Assignment
WK 1 Brochure Psy 405 Assignment
1.THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL FORCES OR PROCESSES DEVELOPING ESPECIALLY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND THEIR EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOR AND
MENTAL STATES
2. EXPLANATION OR INTERPRETATION (AS OF BEHAVIOR OR MENTAL STATES) IN TERMS OF MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL FORCES OR PROCESSES
3. MOTIVATIONAL FORCES ACTING ESPECIALLY AT THE UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL
Psychodynamic Theories
Psychodynamic theories see behavior
as a product of psychological forced
within the individual, often outside
conscious awareness Five
propositions common to all
psychodynamic theories Much of
mental life is unconscious Mental
processes such as emotions,
motivations & thought may conflict
with one another Early childhood
experiences strongly affect
personality development Our mental
representation of ourselves and
others guides our interactions with
1.Conscious - all
things we are
aware of at any
given moment
conscious
2. Unconscious
Superego
3. Preconscious Id
Ego
*Personality Development
personality forms during the
first few years of life,
personality forms during the
first few years of life, rooted
in unresolved conflicts of
early childhood rooted in
unresolved conflicts of early
childhood Psychosexual
Stages Oral (0-18 mos.) centered on the mouth Anal
(18-36 mos.) - focus on
bowel/bladder elim Phallic (36 yrs.) - focus on
genitals/Oedipus Complex
(Identification & Gender
Identity) Latency (6-puberty)
- sexuality
is dormant
Genital
Defense
Mechanisms
Anxiety is
(puberty on) - sexual feelings
produced when the ego cannot satisfy
toward others Strong conflict
the demands of the id in a way
can fixate an individual at
acceptable to the superego This
Stages 1,2 or3
anxiety causes feelings of uneasiness
and worry Ego may employ any of a
number of defense mechanisms to
protect the conscious mind from this
anxiety
* Psychoanalytic
Approach Conscious
Unconscious Superego
Preconscious Id Ego
Information which can
easily be made
conscious Thoughts,
feelings, urges and
other information that
is difficult to bring to
conscious awareness
Information in your
immediate awareness
Rational, planning,
mediating dimension
of personality
Moralistic, judgmental,
perfectionist
dimension of
personality Irrational,
*Freuds
psychoanalytic
theory of
personality suggests
that personality
develops through a
series of stages,
each of which is
associated with a
major stages
biological function.
More specifically,
Freud theorized that
as people age, they
pass through
Defense Mechanisms
Denial Refusal
systematic
to acknowledge several
a painful
reality
stages
of
Repression Unpleasant thoughts are
psychosexual
excluded from consciousness
development
in their
Projection Attributing
ones feelings,
personality.
motives, wishes on/to others
Identification Taking
on traits of others
to avoid feeling incompetent
Regression Reverting to childlike
behavior
* Defense Mechanisms
Intellectualization Thinking about
stressful problems in an abstract way
to detach oneself from them Thinking
about stressful problems in an
abstract way to detach oneself from
them Reaction Formation Expression
of exaggerated ideas and emotions
that are opposite of true feelings
Expression of exaggerated ideas and
emotions that are opposite of true
feelings Displacement Shift repressed
motives from an original object to a
substitute object Shift repressed
motives from an original object to a
WEAKNESSES
STRENGHT