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Component 1: Psychology Past to Present - the approaches
Quick questions on The psychodynamic approach - Eduqas A-Level Psychology Component 1
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The approach explains behaviour through unconscious conflict and childhood. Phobias can be a displacement of unconscious anxiety onto a safer object (as in Little Hans). Personality types are linked to fixation (an "anal-retentive" obsession with order from anal-stage fixation). Aggression can be explained by the death instinct (Thanatos) and by displacement.
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Name the three parts of the personality and their guiding principles. [3 marks]
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Explain one technique used in psychoanalysis. [2 marks]
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State one reason the psychodynamic approach is criticised as unscientific. [2 marks]
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