PSYO 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychodynamics, Karen Horney, Cognitive Psychology
24 Dec 2015
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Each considers different components to be important. Sociocultural: striving to achieve, social forces, culture. Psychological problems are a result of: motives in part of mind we are unaware of: unconscious, unresolved past conflicts. Broadened the study and treatment of psychological disorders. You"ll see more of this in personality and clinical psychology. Psychodynamic theory is widely taught in universities, except in the psychology department: therapeutic utility, literary analysis, poorly regarded by researchers. Only observable behaviour can be studied scientifically. All observable behaviour controlled by environment: so, ignore things like thoughts, ex. September 17, 2015 (all chapter 7 is devoted to this theory essentially) Based on british empiricists: everything comes via experience, tabula rasa blank slate . Concerned with the mental processes underlying motives, emotions, and behaviours. Memory, attention, language, and problem solving are all frequent topics of cognitive psychology. Humans are: information processors (computer analogy, problem solvers. Typically associated with experimental methods in psychology.
