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Psychology A-level - approaches

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A weakness of psychodynamic approach?

Author: (Pippa) Pippa Holloway



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-Arguably untestable -Approach can be seen to not meet the scientfic standards of being falsifiable, meaning that the theory cannot be empericially tests to be proven wrong -Seen with many of Freud's concepts, like the ID and the Oedipus complex, part of the unconcious that is impossible to test -Freud's theory is pseudoscientific, can't beapplied as a real scientific theory as it lacks internal validity


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