PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Oedipus Complex, Gender Identity, Psych

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Projective tests lack reliability (consistency of results) and validity (predicting what it"s supposed to) When evaluating the same patient trained raters come up with different interpretations (reliability) Projective tests may misdiagnose a normal individual as pathological (validity) Modern research contradicts many of freud"s ideas. Development is lifelong, not just in childhood. Parental influence is overestimated and peer influence is underestimated. Gender identity develops earlier than freud thought, and is possible without. Belief that dreams disguise and fulfill wishes is disputed, idea that supressed. After-the-fact explanations of characteristics fail to predict behaviours and traits sexuality causes psychological disorders influence of same-sex parent at home. Conflict between biological impulses and social restraints. Identifying forms of unconscious defense mechanisms that reduce anxiety. What people call personality can be explained with the normal abc model of behaviour. A = antecedents (thing that already exists) Not good at explaining language, memory, or personality. Just because it works on animals doesn"t mean it will on people.