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Six Perspectives - Psychodynamic, Behaviorism, Cognitive, Humanistic, Biopsychological and Sociocultural
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JONATHAN WRIGHT - JLE THE SIX PERSPECTIVES APPROACH MAIN ASSUMPTIONS PRATICAL APPLICATIONS Psychodynamic Sigmund Freud tried to find a theory to explain all human behaviour. He said that there are three parts to the brain. There is the Conscious, pre-conscious and the unconscious. The mind has three parts. These are called the id, ego and superego. He also said that the stages of psychosexual development were important. The defence mechanisms were also mentioned. Defence mechanisms are ways to unconsciously protect ourselves from unpleasant ideas. One way is repression. This is pushing down unwanted ideas into the unconscious mind. There is regression, which is going back to an earlier stage. Displacement is another example, which is diverting energy into another activity, and there is sublimation, which is getting rid of stress or anger by doing sport of digging the garden for example. Behaviorism (Part 1) Ivan Pavlov invented the learning theory of classical conditioning. This is learning through association. An example...
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