PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Inhibition, Personality Test, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

1) children are not as vulnerable to trauma as freud believed. He believes that a child that experienced trauma would repress the trauma which would later affect the child"s behavior in the adult years. Trauma isn"t nearly as devastating as it would be for an adult. 3) we develop gender identity earlier than what freud believed. The child identifies with the same sex parent; they become their role model. We now call that gender identity and it forms around age 4. 4) sexual inhibition has decreased over time, but sexual disorders have not. You would think with the sexual liberation there would be less sexual disorders, except this is not the case. No decrease in psychological anxiety disorders over time. 5) his theory cannot predict later behaviors. It"s easy to come up with after the fact explanations. 6) repression is not as common as freud believed. Repression is a type of defense mechanism which serves to reduce a person"s anxiety.