PSYC 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Thumb Sucking, Childhood Amnesia, Organism
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Investigating the causes of personality: overview of twin and adoption studies: to distinguish among these three influences, behavior geneticists have applied twin studies and adoption studies to personality. Twins reared apart: shining a spotlight on genes: researchers at university of minnesota spent more than two decades accumulating the largest ever sample of identical and fraternal twins reared apart, 130 in total. Psychoanalytic theory: the controversial legacy of sigmund freud and his. 5: led freud to conclude that many mental disorders were produced by psychological rather physiological factors, developed psychanalytic theory and an accompanying treatment called psychoanalysis. 10: fixations can occur because children were either deprived of sexual gratification they should have received during that stage, or excessively gratified during that stage, they experience difficulty moving head to the next stage. Unfalsifiability: many hypotheses from freudian theory are difficult or impossible to refute, he used ad hoc maneuvers to protect his hypotheses from refutation twisted everything to fit what he believed.
