Freud developed his theory in the early 1990's. According to Freud, there are 3 personality structures, separate from each other, influencing our behaviour. These are the ID, ego and super ego.

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Psychology Assignment

Introduction

Freud developed his theory in the early 1990’s. According to Freud, there are 3 personality structures, separate from each other, influencing our behaviour. These are the ID, ego and super ego.

In this investigation, we concentrated particularly on the psychosexual development; we are born with sexual desires but change as we get older and the way we express them. When our desires change, we go to the next stage. There are 5 separate stages:

1) ORAL – child’s lips get sensitised.

2) ANAL – anal muscles become sexually sensitised.

3) PHALIC – Most important stage of our life, the genitals become sensitised. The boys go through the Oedipus complex and the girls go through the Electra complex. These are when the child has sexual feelings for the parent of the opposite sex. However, they are terrified if the parent of the same sex will find out and so repress their thoughts into the unconscious mind so that in future they will be forgotten.

4) LATENCY – no area of sensitisation. Known as period of rest.

5) GENITAL – coincides with puberty. Start to engage in sexual activities with opposite sex.

However, sometimes people get fixated in a stage. If there is a fixation in any of these stages, it determines what personality we have. So a person can move on to the next stage of development but the part of the body that was sensitive in the previous stage, it still remains sensitive to stimulation. This happens if the person was under or over stimulated, in any of the stages.

This affects the person’s personality, habits and even job occupation they choose in the future. For example, if the person was fixated in the oral stage they will choose an occupation that will stimulate their lips. If they were over stimulated, they would be optimistic and gullible but the people, who were under stimulated, would be the opposite. Orally fixated people would tend to choose an occupation such as a teacher or salesperson.

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I think nail biting/ smoking is linked to what occupations people have.

Hypothesis 1 – people who bite their nails/ smoke will score talking jobs higher than non-talking jobs.

Hypothesis 2 – people who do not smoke/ bite nails will score non-talkative jobs higher than talkative jobs.

These are both one tailed hypothesises.

I also think that the people who were orally fixated will give their jobs a high score because they will enjoy their job as it stimulates the lips.

Method

Our group was told that each individual ...

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