PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviorism, Erogenous Zone, Reality Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Lecture 4, 3rd october 2016: levels of analysis of behaviour. Social, emotion, biological (refer to last weeks notes) . When you ask a psychologist why someone is acting a certain way, the answer you get could be very different depending on what theory they are working from . These can be used together, you don"t need to explain behaviour from only one perspective . Psychoanalytic perspective of psychology (developed by freud) . Closely related to psychodynamic, which is neo-freudians (psychologists took what they liked from psychoanalytic) have in common the unconscious he used it for the treatment of his depression . Freud (1856-1939) began as a physician studying cocaine because. The sexual underpinnings of his therapy are due to the times: he was seeing a lot of female patients with neurotic and anxiety problems surrounding sexual issues and from this he developed his psychoanalytic theory .