PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Erich Fromm, Erik Erikson, Margaret Mead

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3400
• Professor: William Sharp

Document Summary

Chapter 8: the social self in cultural context. Weights environment more than self but not completely. Went with margaret mead to south dakota. What are the parts: id, ego & superego. Less originology: attempting to understand phenomena primarily in terms of beginnings. More epigenetic principle: the rudiments of earlier stages are found (transformed, enriched, and expanded) in later stages: past impacts your future. Very old age: gerotranscendence (going through 1-8 again) Rooted in childhood & dif cult to change. Movements are made to relieve inferiority feelings or to compensate for those feelings with an unconscious ctional nal goal. Psychotherapy goal is to break you out of your typical patterns. Rstborns are more conscientious, more socially dominant, less agreeable, less open to new ideas compared to later borns. Testable: yes if you can agree on how to operationalize the terms. Useful: yes- stimulated much research, can be used in everyday life.