PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Toilet Training, Neurology, Carl Jung

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Part iv: the hidden world of the mind: the psychoanalytic approach. Psychic determinism assumption that everything that happens in a persons mind (everything a person thinks and does) has a specific cause. Determinism a basic tenet of science; the idea that everything that happens has a cause that an be identified. All seeming contradictions of mind and behaviour can be resolved and nothing is ever accidental, from a psychoanalytic. Assumption of psychic determinism leads directly to the conclusion that many important mental processes are unconscious. Internal structure assumption that the mind has an internal structure made of parts that can function independently and which, in some cases, conflicts with one another. Note: keep in mind the distinction between the brain and the mind: brain physical organ, mind psychological result of what the brain and the rest of the body do; id, ego, superego (freud)