Freud's Psychodynamic Perspective

The definition of morality according to oxford dictionaries, is principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong and good and bad behaviour. It is the difference of intentions, decisions and actions between those that a considered as moral and immoral behaviour. The definition of debate is a formal discussion/ argument on a specific subject in which opposing groups put their argument forward and most of the time it ends in a vote.

The assumptions of the psychodynamic approach are that your instincts and impulses are present at birth and the causes of behaviour are your feelings, emotions and childhood experiences. Instincts and impulses drive interactions from within the unconscious mind. Past experiences are stored in the pre-conscious

‘Freud explored the human mind more thoroughly than any other who became before him, he was one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, his legacy has even influenced the way people bring up their children.’ Freud’s psychodynamic theory suggests that you are born with ID, this operates on the impulsive and unconscious part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts, it consists of all the inherited components of personality, including the sex instinct ‘Eros’(which contains the libido) and the aggressive (death) instinct

Skinner’s theory was that every child is born a blank slate and everything they do is determined by their environment and the people around them, he ‘believed that children respond to a system of rewards and punishments’. Skinner believed that one of the best ways to understand behaviour was to look at the causes of an action and its consequences, he called this operant conditioning. An example of this is that if children see moral or immoral behaviour being rewarded, they would immediately copy what that person done so they too could be rewarded because they thought it was the right thing to