PSYC101 Discussion

Humanities

You read about the psychodynamic perspective, and the mixed level of empirical evidence supporting it. Keeping in mind that much of Freud’s original theories focused on the importance of unconscious experiences (things that a person cannot know themselves), and remembering some of the challenges to psychological research that were discussed in Module 1, post your thoughts about why such a theory might be difficult to study empirically.

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