PS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Psychoanalytic Theory
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As more people became interested in the field of psychology, perspectives toward behaviour and mental processes continued to emerge. Psychodynamic approach, the behaviorist approach, the humanistic approach, the cognitive approach, and the sociobiological approach. Gestaltists held very different views about the mind. However although all of these thought processes were different they are all alike in one way; they all focused on consciousness, behaviours, and mental processes of which we are aware. Unconscious mind is the hypothesized repository of thoughts, feelings, and sensations outside human awareness, thought in some theories to have a strong bearing on human behaviour. Sigmund freud suggested that many of our thoughts and feelings existed in the unconscious mind. Freud suggested that unconsciousness existed beyond the realm of awareness of consciousness bur exerted enormous influence on behaviour. Freud was particularly interested in patients who has hysteria.
