PSYC 2130 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 – Personality.docx
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Carl rogers one of the first to not agree with psychoanalysis saying that it could hurt people: said power balance can hurt people. Wolpe had a problem with how low psychoanalysis took. Why are we still talking about freud: freuds treatment stimulated further work. Allowed for revision: people took freud"s ideas, analyzed them and made them better, made numerable contributions to psychology. Overt behaviour = can be observed directly: covert behaviour = cannot be observed directly idea that all behaviour are determined by a preceding psychological or mental event, causal power, everything is caused by an underlined preceding wish. Same principal applies to normal and abnormal behaviour: caused by another preceding mental process. Based on the observation that certain mental content are more available to us than other. Material which is not accessible to us also is a very potent cause of behaviour: unconscious material is often most influential. Freud learned that these women were not faking their symptoms.