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CHAPTER 01:THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
General Psychology(PSY2200 MBAC)
A THEORY WITH INTERESTING ROOTS
Psychoanalysis
The Story Begins…Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 – 1815)
Mesmer: Medical degree from University of Vienna, 1766
Maximillian Hell, Jesuit priest, spoke of using magnets to effect medical cures
Mesmer began using the technique, eventually dropping the use of the magnet – his own animal magnetism was sufficient to influence (note that he always told his patients what outcome he expected)
A commission appointed by the king of France investigated Mesmer’s techniques and attributed the benefits of animal magnetism to the imagination (Franklin, Guillotin)
The Story Continues…Marquis de Puységur
Refined Mesmer’s technique, decreasing the drama
Could induce a peaceful, sleeplike trance
Artificial Somnambulism Suggestibility Induced paralysis Induced anaesthesia Emotional experience
Posthypnotic AmnesiaPosthypnotic Suggestion
HypnosisJames Braid (1795 – 1860)
A skeptic of magnetismArgued that the phenomenon
was a product of suggestibilityRenamed the process neuro-
hypnology, then shortened to hypnosis (hypnos: Greek – sleep)
Made the phenomenon more respectable among the medical community
HYPNOSIS
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HysteriaJean-Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893)
Hysteria: (Hyster: Greek – uterus)
paralysis and numbness, disturbances of sight and hearing
Greek view of hysteria“Theory is fine, but it does
not prevent things from existing”
HysteriaJoseph Breuer (1842 – 1925)
Anna O. 21-year-old Paralysis of arms or legs Disturbances of sight and
speech Nausea Memory loss Mental disorientation
Anna O. and Breuer
Using hypnosis, Breuer discovered Anna had had to keep vigil by dying father’s bedside
Pathogenic ideas: Each of Anna’s symptoms had a relationship to trauma in this situation
Cathartic Method: Relief following emotional release Aristotle: Catharsis – emotional release and sense of
purification by the audience while watching a drama
The Talking Cure (“Chimney Sweeping”): talking about painful things can bring emotional relief
Anna O.The Outcome
Actually named Bertha Pappenheim (1859 – 1936)Admitted to a sanatorium immediately following
Breuer terminating treatmentUltimately became a leader in the European feminist
movementPlaywrightAuthor of children’s storiesFounder of several school and clubs for the poor,
illegitimate, or wayward young womenEffective spokesperson against white slavery and
abortion“If there is any justice in the next life women will
make the laws there and men will bear the children”
PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
Birth in clinical practice, rather than academic or experimental psychology
Emphasis on unconscious processes
Psychoanalytic Theory
Pleasure Principle
RealityPrinciple
Psychoanalytic TheoryAnxiety and Defense Mechanisms
Anxiety Objective Anxiety: real-world threats Neurotic Anxiety: ego feels that it is going to be
overwhelmed by the Id Moral Anxiety: when an internalized value (from the
superego) is about to be violatedDefense Mechanisms: a means for the Ego to cope
with neurotic or moral anxiety
Defense Mechanisms
Sublimation: substituting a nonsexual goal for a sexual one
Projection: attributing blame to someone or something else (“the devil made me do it”)
Identification: if one does not live up to an internalized value, indentifying with someone who does (e.g. logos, hairstyles, choice of music)
Rationalization: manufacturing a rational reason for something when that isn’t the case
Reaction Formation: doing the opposite of what you really want to do (the homosexual man becomes a super Don Juan)
Back to Hysteria
In 1895, Charcot and Freud together argued that hysteria is caused by traumatic experience that is not allowed adequate expression and comes out instead in a physical manifestation
According to Freud, the experience is repressed because of Id/Ego/Superego conflicts
The Seduction Theory: In 1896, Freud goes further and suggests that in 18 of 18 cases, his patients all had histories of a sexual attack in childhood
A Controversy Emerges
Freud and Charcot were stating all of these things publicly in late 19th Century Europe
Freud’s patients were the children of the wealthy elite in Vienna
This is at the height of the Victorian EraThe Victorian Era was characterized by strict
moral standards, especially regarding sexThe idea that the social elites were sexually
victimizing their children was entirely unpalatable
The Outcome
Essentially, Freud withdrew his argumentHe substituted the idea that his patients were
fantasizing about sex and that the Id/Ego/Superego system repressed these fantasies, which emerged as hysteria
The result: Oedipus and Electra Complexes
Psychoanalytic Theory and Science
Psychoanalytic theory was developed via individual clinical observations and introspection by clinicians
The theory is minimally tied to formal science; Freud largely departed from his training in science in developing psychoanalytic theory
More recently, psychology as a discipline has developed theory on science
Evaluating Psychoanalysis
AS PRESENTED IN YOUR TEXT
Psychology as Science
AFFILIATION EXPERIMENTDR. STANLEY SCHACHTER
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Accumulation and Application of Scientific Knowledge
Basic and Applied ScienceThe Third Brake Light
The TheoryJohn Voevodsky, a Psychologist (1974)Taxicabs in San Francisco
Basic Science Experimental Group: Taxicabs with a third brake
light Control Group: Taxicabs without a third brake light Results: Fewer accidents (rear end collisions) in
experimental groupApplied Science
A third brake light is now standard Fewer accidents as a result
Basic and Applied ScienceMaterialism and Happiness
The TheoryEdward Diener, David Myers, Tim KasserRelationship between material wealth and happiness
Basic Science Diener and Myers: Once basic needs are paid for,
money does little to improve happiness Kasser:
People who buy into the consumer culture report lower personal well-being
Individuals who say that money, image, and popularity are important are less satisfied, more depressed and more anxious
Applied Science Parent-training programs to teach learning through
play Would this effect your behavior or choices with
your children?
Basic and Applied ScienceMake-Believe and Learning
The TheorySinger and SingerRelationship between make-believe in three to five year olds
Basic Science Experimental Group: Trained parents, teachers, home
care providers in playing make-believe games that teach about numbers, colors, shapes, vocabulary, and reading
Control Group: No training Results:
Children make gains in readiness skills Fun Easier to teach Effective in preparing children for school
Applied Science “Voluntary Simplicity” movement Maximizing “time affluence” rather than material
affluence Would knowing this effect your choices?
Basic and Applied ScienceThe Polygraph
The TheoryRelationship between physiological responses (heart rate, respiration, perspiration, muscle tension, etc) and deception
Basic Science Results:
No pattern of physiological response unique to deception
Placebo effects (belief that the polygraph is a “lie detector”) account for many of effects
Most lie detection is the product of expectation and making confessions
Applied Science Courts have rejected the use of polygraphs as evidence of
deception due to unreliability Would you allow someone to polygraph you to “prove”
your innocence?
Evaluating Psychology as Science