PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oedipus Complex, Ego Ideal, Direct Energy
12 Jul 2018
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Freud: founding father of psychoanalysis: true developmentalist: saw life history as something that effected current problems. Freud"s psychosexual theory of personality: most is subconscious. Id: unconscious pleasure seeker (libido: ego: rational, conscious mechanism that aims to direct energy into socially acceptable activities pragmatic self, superego: moral agency of personality. "the problem is not that the psychoanalytic construct of repression or the oedipus (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) are fa(cid:374)tasti(cid:272) . Controversies: nature versus nurture: nature: development proceeds according to a genetically-programmed, innate, schedule, children are born with an innate knowledge of physics (gravity). Innate knowledge of biology (can decipher of animate and inanimate objects) Little albert (john watson): fully influence a child. Fear is taught not coded genetically: extreme example in nurture theory. Imprinting (will imprint on the first moving thing: foetal development (intimately timed, weeks) Impressive developmental gains in some domains shown by orphans introduced to enriched environments (in 2 years, went from nonverbal to fluent: contiguous and stage like development.
