Examples Of Psychoanalytic Approach In Psychology

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The psychoanalytic approach is a structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes and helps to treat psychosis and other ailments. This method of studying the mind and treating mental and emotional disorders based on revealing and investigating the role of the unconscious mind was created by Dr Sigmund Freud who was taught by Jean-Martin Charcot. A therapy that uses this sort of therapy is free association. Freud used free association to help his patients delve into unconscious thoughts and feelings that had been repressed or ignored as the patient is in denial. When his patients became aware of these unconscious thoughts or feelings, they were better able to control them …show more content…
It is said that all behaviour is caused or determined in some way and our environment has a major influence in moulding our behaviour . This school of thought was founded by J.B Watson and he wanted to look beyond mental states and things like mind and emotions( also known as internal states) to explain the ever changing thing that is human behaviour. Watson believed that all behaviour could be trained or altered in ways which scientifically can be observed and measured. This is how Skinner 's rats and Pavlov 's dogs experiments came to fruition. Early behaviourists stated it was easier to use animals in their experiments as they were easier to control and their behaviour was simplified to then move onto to look at more complex issues. These types of experiments looked at two types of conditioning, classical and operant. Classical conditioning is when a naturally occurring stimulus is detected by an organism and the organism emits a response to this. So behaviour can be manipulated. In Ivan Pavlov 's dog experiment he tested this theory of conditioning by using food as the naturally occurring stimulus and salivation as the response, Pavlov introduces a bell to ring every time the food was given to the dog so the dog associated the bell with getting food. So eventually when bell rang, the dog would automatically salivate as they had learn to …show more content…
This approach was founded by Ulric Neisser a psychologist that thought behaviourism was too simplistic. The different areas of the mind that are looked at in great depth are perception, attention, language, memory and thought. The cognitive approach is scientific so relies on experiments and case studies to understand the human processes. Cognitive approach looks at memory and attention and thought processes to help us understand how we process, retain and pass on information we receive from the environment around us. Jean Piaget a famous psychologist once said that children are simply mini adults and we are born with a simple basic mental structure and we learn by means of schema. He recognised that children think differently to adults. The way we learn and sequence information we receive by way of having new experiences and sorting them into categories is called forming schemata. Piaget looked at how from birth to toddler the different stages we go through adapting as we go and way we learned and how we process the information. Piaget 's work was of great scientific value in seeing how the cognitive development in children worked. It helped to form how education was taught schools. A therapy that uses this approach is cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT). This therapy helps you to