Psychology 2550A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Fantasy, Psychopathy, Psychodynamics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Children today often see parents only in leisure hours resulting in under- stimulation. As a result of the parent"s failure to respond empathetically and healthily, the: sexual fantasies and the fragments of love rather than love, hostile fantasies and only the fragments of assertiveness rather than. Behavioral manifestations of personality symptoms and irrational patterns of appropriate assertiveness. Underlying stable motives and their unconscious transformations and conflicts behavior (cid:523)including dreams, (cid:498)mistakes(cid:499) and fantasies. Personality dynamic and psychopathy; unconscious processes; defense mechanisms; the fragment of the self. By insight unto the motives and conflicts underlying behavior, by making the unconscious conscious. Within the boundaries set by genes, what people become is influenced importantly by learning through conditioning. Behavioral theories or learning-conditioning theories, focus on learning: mechanisms through which certain events stimuli become associated with particular behaviors or responses. Psychodynamics behavior theory was developed by john dollard and beal.