PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Karen Horney, Subliminal Stimuli, Spreading Activation
6 Apr 2013
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The neo-analytical movement contemporary psychologists being based on the following 5 though the unconscious still plays a large role in life - perhaps not as much as freud suggested. Behaviour often reflects compromises in conflicts between mental processes such as emotions, motivations, and thoughts childhood plays an important part in personality development - in terms of shaping adult relationship styles. Mental representations of the self and relationships guide our relations with others. Personality development involves not just regulating sexual and aggressive feelings, but also moving from an immature dependent way into mature independent relationship style. We should not conclude that all recovered memories are false memories. Many variable contribute to the construction of false memories. Popular press - books on abuse often provide strong suggestions that abuse could have happened to others. Another factor - therapists - lead them to believe it.
