ALDENHAM PSYCHOLOGY
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Psychodynamic Perspective
Summary of the Perspective
​HancockPrinciples of the Psychodynamic perspective
  • Behaviour is influenced by the interaction (dynamism) of drives and forces within the personality (psyche).
  • Behaviour comes from the unconscious personality.
  • Personality is shaped by relationships, experience and conflict over time, particularly during childhood.
  • The mind is like an iceberg. It has conscious, subconscious and unconscious thought, all of which can influence our behaviour
 
Types of Behaviour Studied
  • What do your actions say about your unconscious personality?
  • What do your actions say about your childhood?
 
Practical Applications
  • Issues of Mental Health – using psychoanalysis to uncover unconscious conflicts
  • Child Psychology – when should you stop being a daddy’s girl or mummy’s boy?
  • Criminal Psychology – is crime due to having too much of a naughty side?
 
Debate it strongly links with
It takes the determinist side of the free will / determinism debate as it believes that behaviour is caused and determined by the unconscious mind.
 
Strengths
  • Allows psychologists suggest causes of mental disorders
  • Allows psychologists to suggest why individuals behave in ways they cannot easily explain or understand.
  • Uses case studies providing rich, detailed data
 
Weaknesses
  • Studies often use unrepresentative samples
  • Research Methods may not be objective and are open to bias.
  • The perspective is based on concepts that are difficult to test and verify scientifically.
 
Research Methods
  • Use of case studies open to subjectivity affecting validity
  • Case studies difficult to replicate so issues with reliability of findings
 
Methodological Issues
  • Allows both qualitative and quantitative data to be gathered which provides rich, in-depth data about the behaviour under consideration.
  • Methods can be longitudinal showing development of behaviour
  • Longitudinal research can suffer from attrition of participants
 
Core Studies
  • Freud
  • Hancock
  • Kohlberg​
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  • Everything else
    • Year 11 into A Level >
      • Week 1 Mental Health
      • Week 2 Memory
      • Week 3 Attachment
      • Week 4 Social Attitudes and Influence
    • Year 13 Pre-U Programme
    • Independent Learning
    • Revision
    • Exams >
      • Mock Exams
      • Past papers
    • Assessment Objectives
    • For Teachers
    • For Parents
    • Classrooms
    • UCAS >
      • Results Day
      • Criminology
    • Trips
    • Aldenham Attributes >
      • Aspiration
      • Co-operation
      • Courage
      • Curiosity
      • Independence
      • Respect
  • Paper 1: Research Methods
    • Paper 1: What the paper is like >
      • Research Methodology of the Core Studies
    • The 4 main research methods
    • Populations and Samples
    • Ethical Considerations
    • Self-reports
    • Observations
    • Correlations
    • Experiments
    • Reliability and Validity
    • Descriptive Statistics >
      • Distribution Curves
    • Inferential Statistics
    • Reporting, Referencing and Design your Own >
      • Sections of a Psychology Report
      • Harvard Referencing
      • Peer Review
  • Paper 2: Core Studies
    • Paper 2: What the paper is like
    • Areas and Perspectives >
      • Social Area >
        • Milgram
        • Bocchiaro
        • Piliavin
        • Levine
      • Cognitive Area >
        • Loftus
        • Grant
        • Moray
        • Simons & Chabris
      • Developmental Area >
        • Bandura
        • Chaney
        • Kohlberg
        • Lee
      • Biological Area >
        • Sperry
        • Casey
        • Blakemore and Cooper
        • Maguire
      • Individual Differences Area >
        • Freud
        • Baron Cohen
        • Gould
        • Hancock
      • Behaviourist Perspective
      • Psychodynamic Perspective
    • Debates >
      • Nature v Nurture
      • Free Will v Determinism
      • Reductionism v Holism
      • Individual v Situational
      • Usefulness
      • Ethical Considerations
      • Socially Sensitive Research
      • Psych as a Science
      • Methodological Issues
      • Ethnocentrism
  • Paper 3: Applied Psychology
    • Issues of Mental Health >
      • Historical Context of Mental Health
      • The Medical Model
      • Alternatives to the Medical Model
    • Paper 3: Options
    • Child Psychology >
      • Intelligence
      • Pre-adult brain development
      • Perception
      • Cognitive Development
      • Attachment
      • Impact of Advertising
    • Criminal Psychology >
      • What makes a criminal?
      • Forensic Evidence
      • Collection of Evidence
      • Psychology & the Courtroom
      • Crime Prevention
      • Effect of Imprisonment
    • Environmental Psychology
    • Sport and Exercise Psychology