GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
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Psychodynamic theory stresses the importance of early childhood experiences, relationships with parents/carers and how this may affect adult personality and behaviour. This is now known as developmental Psychology.
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Psychodynamic theories of offending are widely accepted by psychologists as there is the no difficulty associated with testing some of the concepts.
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Freud’s belief that personality can be broken into three distinct elements may relate to a more contemporary understanding of the brain with the ID being linked to emotion and the amygdala and the ego being similar to the prefrontal cortex where decisions are made.
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Secondly, psychodynamic researchers rely heavily on qualitative case studies which are very scientific and support Freud’s work
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freud’s Theory of Personality According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, all psychic energy is generated by libido. Freud suggested that our mental states were influenced by two competing forces: cathexis and anticathexis. Anticathexis involves the ego blocking the socially unacceptable needs of the id.
Detailed explanation-2: -Key Takeaways Freud proposed that the mind is divided into three components: id, ego, and superego, and that the interactions and conflicts among the components create personality. Freud proposed that we use defence mechanisms to cope with anxiety and maintain a positive self-image.
Detailed explanation-3: -Psychosexual development: Freud’s theory of psychosexual development posits that there are five stages of growth in which people’s personalities and sexual selves evolve. These phases are the oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latent stage, and genital stage.5.