- The study of growth and maturity over a lifetime
- Strengths of Developmental Study
- Useful applications to real life
- Children require simple experiments to understand what they are doing
- Findings are likely to be more reliable
- Weaknesses of Developmental Study
- Demand Characteristics
- Ethical Issues
Important Background
- Strengths of the Psychodynamic Perspective
- made the case study popular
- highlighted the importance of childhood
- Weaknesses of the Psychodynamic Perspective
- results can’t be generalized
- unscientific results
- too deterministic (little free-will)
- biased sample
- unfalsifiable (difficult to prove wrong)
- lacks validity
- Psychodynamic Perspective
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Hans is afraid of his mother drowning in the bathtub
- Hans’s Fantasies and Dreams
1. Giraffes
- Hans told his father that he drunk of a picture off in a crumpled one
- In the dream, Hans took the crumpled giraffe from the big giraffe, but the big one complained. After the big one stopped complaining, Hans sat on the crumpled giraffe
- Interpretation: The big giraffe represented the father due to the giraffe’s long neck (penis). The crumpled giraffe represented the mother or her genitals. When Hans sat on the crumpled giraffe it showed his desire to cuddle with his mother despite his father’s objections
2. Criminal Fantasy
- Hans had a fantasy that he and his father broke a window on the train
- Interpretation: Hans wanted to do something forbidden to his mother that his father wishes to do as well
3. Baby Daddy
- Hans had ongoing fantasies about having children with his mother and his father becoming the grandfather
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