6.1.1 - Psychodynamic

Question 1

Concepts

Answer 1

• Id - demands instant gratification, pleasure pathway
• Ego - rational, balances out Id and superego
• Superego - moral conscience
• Defence mechanisms - rationalisation, sublimation, displacement

Question 2

Weak superego

Answer 2

Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. Don’t learn right from wrong, can’t control id instincts.

Question 3

Deviant superego

Answer 3

Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. Parents morals are wrong and so the child begins to act in a deviant way.

Question 4

Strong superego

Answer 4

Superego develops early when a child identifies with the same sex parent. An individual is crippled by guilt and commits crime to satisfy need for punishment.

Question 5

Dominant id

Answer 5

Id develops at birth. Need to satisfy the id, may result in crime.

Question 6

Poorly developed ego

Answer 6

Ego develops at infancy.
May fulfil ids demands in an unsafe and immoral way.

Question 7

Bowlby

Answer 7

Supporting.
39% of juvenile delinquents have experiences disruption to attachments, compared to 5% of non delinquents.

Question 8

Unfalsifiable

Answer 8

Can’t be proved.

Question 9

Case studies

Answer 9

Unrepresentative and unusual.