PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning, Unconscious Mind, Gestalt Therapy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Kevin Hamilton

Document Summary

Individualistic (empowers the individual assumes free will) Actualizes, maintains and enhances the experience of life through the process of self actualization. Summary of the main psychological perspectives on therapy (assumes the environment forms your behaviour, the behaviour is learned through past. Reduction of social and biological needs that energize behaviour through the emission of learned responses. A series of interrelated hierarchally arranged traits which characterize day to day behaviours of the individual. Learned responses depend on a changing environment and a person responds after thinking about the context of the environment. Therapy methods methods to extract information out of the unconscious mind (id) (use of hypnosis/free association, interpretation of dreams) to aid in the expression of long- repressed feelings. Rationale - the ability to work through these feelings increases insight into unconscious origins leads to resolution. Discrepancy between self and concept of ideal self.