PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unmixed, Donald Winnicott, Puberty
3 Nov 2011
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Wolpe: principal of unconscious motivation: all behavior are determined or caused by a preceding mental event. based on the observation that certain mental events are more available to us. Material which is no accessible to us (unconscious) also has a very powerful influence on behavior. Unconscious material has the most powerful on our behavior: mental event overt (observable) In: disadvantages: may not always be psychological relevant and may be difficult to access (concerning privacy, b-data (behavioral) Ben kim: compromises direct observations of a person doing something in a testing situation. Psychoanalysis: overdeterminism: there are usually a whole series of pathogenic ideas that are associated with the symptoms of pathology, resistance: freud saw that patients show resistance to therapeutic help/free association. 4 ideas: psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, mental energy. Psychic determinism: one of the most fundamental approaches to psychoanalysis, the idea that everything happens has a cause that in principal, maybe not always in practice can be identified.
