psy essays

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1. unconscious * Comprehensive Structure of personality* Useful for treating people Defence mechanisms* Cultural bias Psychosexual stages* Non-falsifiable Gender bias

   psycodynamic

2. Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic approach in psychology. (16 marks) In the psychodynamic approach the unconscious plays a very important role. Freud suggested that the mind is made up of a large unconscious and a smaller conscious. The unconscious contains thoughts and ideas that are not directly accessible to the conscious. There is an intermediary between the two as well known as the subconscious. However, one of the advantages of this approach is that it is highly comprehensive. This m…

3. Outline and evaluate operant conditioning(8 marks) One of the important behaviourist theories is operant conditioning. Operant conditioning was conceived by Skinner and suggests that learning in humans and animals is an active process through reinforcement of positive existing behaviours and discouraging existing behaviours that are negative. Skinner suggested that there are 3 types of consequences for carrying out a behaviour. These could either be positive reinforcement where behaviour gets r…

4. reinforcement 3 types of consequences study

   skinner AO1

5. invalid and unethical lacks generalisability lab experiment mechanistic cognitive approach or social learning theory

   skinner AO3