Individualistic Theories - Freud

Nature or Nurture?

" (a)   is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception e.g. what a person is exposed to, their experiences and what an individual learns".

Freud believed that we can understand human behaviour best by examining past

• childhood experiences

• marital relationships

• sexual desires

In the last year of his life, Freud said he had discovered a new science know as

• Psychology

• Psychoanalysis

• Psychopaths

• Psychiatry

Freud introduced the idea of the...

(a)  

He famously observed that the...

• man is the father to the child

• child is a selfish swine

• children are the kingdom of god

• child is the father to the man

Freud developed a __________________ structure of the mind said to contain contain our personality.

• triplications

• triplicate

• tripartite

• triharder

The ____is present from birth and represents our basic needs, it is selfish and wants instant gratification

• Ego

• Super Ego

• ID

It is based on the morality principle, concerned with social rules and morals which we learn from early interactions with our parents.

(a)  

Children need to progress onwards from the pleasure principle, to the _________ ______________, where the ego is most dominant.

• reality principle

• moral principle

• super principle

• healthy principle

Bowlby considered the effects of maternal deprivation.

How many juvenile delinquents did he study?

• 34

• 44

• 54

• 64