CLASS 6

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CLASS 6
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EVALUATION OF PSYCHO-DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY
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Q HOW BROAD IS THE THEORY ?
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A COLOSSALFrom the Trivial to the
Magnificent
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The Trivial

• Slips and trips of the tongue
• There are no mistakes
• Due to unconscious desire
• Examples
• Glad to beat you oops, I mean meet you
• Smiths theory is useless
• Sigmund Fraud

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To the Magnificent

• Culture
• Life instinct
• Fantasy, creativity
• War
• Death instinct

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IMPACT
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1. On psychology

• Psychotherapy the talking cure
• Novel ideas
• Unconscious, psychological defense, symbolism,
  dynamics, stages of development

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2. Intellectual thought

• Literature
• symbolism
• Innate mythologies
• e.g., Oedipus Complex
• Sociology anthropology
• taboos

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3. ContemporaryConfirmation

• Advertising sex sells
• Entertainment violence too
• language unconscious, defensive, repression

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CRITIQUE

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1. Scientific Status

• Difficult to verify
• Reliance on case studies and self-insight
• Often changed his mind

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2. Offensive

• Excessive focus on sex
• Childhood sexuality
• Offensive to women
• e.g., penis envy, morality

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3. Negative view of humanity

• Are sex and aggression really the major human
  motivations?
• Are they inevitable?
• Focus on psychological problems

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4. Other complaints

• ?

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BOTTOM LINE

• You love him or hate him
• But cant deny his influence

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE CREDITS (REC)
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TWO OPTIONS

• A. SUBJECT POOL
• Participate in research
• Ask questions to experimenters
• You may become an experimenter
• B. LIBRARY RESEARCH
• read a paper in the journal called Social
  Psychological and Personality Science
• Summarize in your own words

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Human Subject Pool (HSP)

• How to participate?
• Go to https//hsp.psych.ubc.ca/ and create a
  personal profile. Its quick and easy
• What then?
• View all available studies
• Sign-up for them
• Earn credits towards your course grade
• Hint If you complete the online questionnaire
  immediately after you sign-up youll earn your
  first ½ credit.

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In this course

• 1 hour of participation 1 percent credit
• 2 percent added to final grade
• Bonus of 3 percent if you have time
• More details on syllabus link to REC credits

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WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1

• Pick a recent popular film.
• How would Freud explain its popularity?
• Between 150 and 250 words
• Email to paulhus.sec.8_at_gmail.com