Social psychological

Social Psychological - the unconscious is very important just as the conscious.Emotions and state are very important along with external social and enviromental factors.

Study - girls doing worse in maths. Learnt identities?Working classes have to become different and distant from family to suceed whereas upper class girls are expected to be the same as everyone else to suceed along with support from parents. Learnt unconscious roles?

Methodology/methods- Studies individual but also social context. Qualitative and intrepretative. Internal and External processes. Looks for associations/meanings made. Researchers recorded own subjective feelings throughout. Unique individual. Narative interviews. contradictions and conflicts. Defensive concepts.

Study - SiblingsLack of research, focus on extreme e.g. rivalry.Freud focused on oedipus complex.Study - !1-14yrs boysEmphasis on not being gay or girly.race- African males seen as most masc, but maybe too tough?

Defense mechanismsSplitting - Primitive, Seen in young children.Can carry on to adulthood.Seeing things as black and white, good or bad. No grey areas.Projection - Defense from difficult knowledge, feelings and attributes.most commonly, expelling bad traits to others, groups and things so they can hate (etc) from a safe distance.Can be reversed, i.e. modesty.Projection Identification - Individual takes on traits that are projected onto them.Social projection.Introjection - take traits seen in others to be seen in yourself.

Melaine KleinEmotional conflicts (unconsc) affect behaviour.

Ontology-  Psycho and social dynamic. Unconsc motives - conflict. Def mechanisms importance to individul, social and institutions.

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