PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Mental Model, Psychopathology, Brainstem

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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Psychodynamic perspective psychodynamic approach presents a largely deterministic and pessimistic image of human nature. Psychoanalysis is deterministic in that it holds that the ultimate cause of motivation and behavior derives from biologically endowed and socially acquired impulses that determine our desires, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, regardless of whether we like it. Thus, many of the motivational impulses of an adult can be traced to events that took place in childhood: motivation comes across as some- thing that happens to us, rather than as something we choose or create. Psychoanalysis is strangely appealing and wonderfully popular. it makes the unconscious its subject matter. Today, psychoanalytic refers to practitioners who remain committed to most traditional freudian principles. Psychodynamic refers to the study of dynamic unconscious mental processes. In other words, one can study unconscious mental processes (e. g. , prejudice, depression, thought suppression, defense mechanisms) inside or outside the freudian tradition. Dual-instinct theory instinctual bodily drives explained the source of all motivation.