PSYS 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oral Stage, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Therapy

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 170
• Professor: Kelly Joanna Rohan

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Psys 170 other paradigms: fred"s level of consciousness, conscious present awareness, preconscious can be brought to awareness, unconscious below awareness, freud"s structure of the mind. Redirecting your emotional responces to something less threatening kicking the dog . Insight is needed to produce change: psychoanalytic treatment, goal = insight, free association, resistance, dream analysis wish fulfillment theory, transference patient"s feelings are transferred onto the therapist. Advantages to the psychoanalytic paradigm: contribution of psych variables, emphasizes the importance of early. Disadvantages to the psychoanalytic paradigm: not scientifically testable, not a lot of evidence of psychoanalytic childhood, explains both normal and abnormal theories, patients require extremely long-term behavior. Disadvantages to the humanistic paradigm: popular appeal, could be used as a general approach to patients, led to studies of the therapy process, not scientifically based, does not explain the causes of specific. Advantages to the behavioral paradigm: scientifically based, testable hypotheses, predicts behavior, generated research, effective treatments.