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The Dynamics of Psychoanalysis The Dynamics of Psychoanalysis By: Thomas Hutchinson Both classical conditioning and psychodynamic theory have played a pivotal role
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than you think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics. Churchill's Iron Curtain
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The Dynamics of Psychoanalysis
By: Thomas Hutchinson
Both classical conditioning and psychodynamic theory have played a pivotal role in the
development of social psychology. For nearly all of the past century they have shaped and
influenced the way psychologists, philosophers and ordinary people have felt about the nature of
the human psyche. It is because of this that we continue to use those theories today to predict the
outcome of certain situations.
In our particular case we have a situation where one hundred women have been asked to rate the
degree to which they agree or disagree with a certain a statement when associated with a picture
of an old man or of a young man. Separately, there is the question of their preferences for being
supplied few or many facts. It is in such cases that both theories can be used to predict what their
opinions will be.
Classical Conditioning, or behaviorism, began with John Watson and continued with B.F.
Skinner. It ultimately became a well known but widely discredited theory based on the
hypothesis that human behavior can be explained entirely in terms of reflexes, stimulus-response
associations, and the effects of reinforcers. More specifically, it contends that mental states can
be analyzed through behavior or through a predictable way of acting, and that the greater the
number of presentations of stimuli there are, the greater the produced response is. In our
particular case, those aspects will help to predict the influence on the women's ultimate response
both to the pictures of the old and young man and to the number of facts supplied them.
Psychodynamic theory, due largely to Sigmund Freud has had a lasting effect on the school of
psychology. Unlike Behaviorism, it is still thought to have significant...
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