PSYC2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: B. F. Skinner, Dream Interpretation
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Take out notebook assignment about criticisms for freud"s theories. One critique: freud did not have enough evidence. Freud had lots of different kinds of evidence free association, dream analysis, history, etc. He studied history, so he studied shakespeare, leonardo da vinci, etc. Other people had studied kids and adults and interactions, so there were many sources for. Said you should reconstruct everything that happened in your childhood this evidence, according to freud, is very strong! Would have the patient lying on a couch, facing away from him. They would meet for several days per week, and he wouldn"t impose anything on his patients because they wouldn"t even look at him. Free association, dream analysis, dreams would try to piece all of this together. Another criticism: his population of patients wasn"t cross-cultural. When he began, he was in private practice tended to be upper class, young women.
