PSY 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sampling Bias, Biopsychosocial Model, Cardiovascular Disease
29 Jan 2014
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Sigmund freud : credited with discovering the unconscious mind. Played an important role drawing attention to unobservable parts of personality: many theories of adult development and personality are based on psychodynamic perspective. Personality does not change after early childhood: by the time the individual reaches adolescence, there are few substantive changes, as a result, therapy would not be beneficial after the age of 50. Defense mechanisms with a minimum of anxiety: according to freud defense mechanisms were necessary to allow individual to function. For many current psychologists who operate from a psychodynamic position, the most important component of personality is the ego: ego equivalent to the conscious mind. Erikson"s psychosocial theory: theory proposes there are eight crisis stages in the maturation of the ego, epigenetic principle: each psychosocial strength has its own special time of ascendancy (period of particular importance)
