Evauate approach

Question 1

PSYCHODYNAMIC POSITIVES

Answer 1

✅nature (innate drives) and nature (experiences) e.g. tripartite + psychosexual stages
✅ successful - freud saw psychological factors explain physical symptoms e.g. paralysis
✅holistic - behaviour influenced by multiple factors that cant be seperated

Question 2

PSYCHODYNAMIC NEGATIVES

Answer 2

❌ mechanistic - reduces everything to mind (tripartite) + ignores genes
❌ determinist - personality = predetermined (assumes no free will)
❌ frued = hard to falsify, popper - cant prove theories right, only wrong