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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by psycho dynamics which

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aims to understand how past experiences may influence current behavior not to be [Man thinking about past experience of falling in a pool]

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confused with psychic dynamics which aims to understand how future

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experiences influence future behavior alright here's the question Erik

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Erikson's interest in psycho dynamics and his work in developing earlier

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theories contribute to his having which of the following labels and here are

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potential answers and that the answer is me or something all right well we know

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what you're thinking finally a question about Keanu Reeves and the matrix I'm [Keanu Reeves appears on stage]

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sorry to burst your bubble but that's not quite what's going on here neo is a

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Greek word meaning new or recent that prefix in front of anything and you've

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reinvented that thing you know it's usually used for ideologies in the

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philosophies but you can also call dippin dots neo ice cream no one will [A tub of dippin dots appear]

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judge you maybe anyway in Erickson's case he's reinvented the views of one of

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the psychologists listed here hence the Neo but which one well let's take a

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first look at the psychodynamics there it's an approach to psychology that [Man eating ice cream by playground]

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focuses on the underlying human motivations that influence the way we

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behave in steel with specific emphasis on early childhood experience this is

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all part of the effort to better understand unconscious motivation the

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main problem with all that well when you start delving into unconscious and [Man taps man's head and it opens]

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underlying stings you ultimately start getting into things that can't be proved

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empirically which is why it's sometimes said that psychodynamics deliberately

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ignores the trappings of science which is sort of thing that you should be a

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little bit skeptical of within the context of psychology as for Erik

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Erikson well he's best known for his theory on psychosocial development which [Erik discussing eight stages]

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identified eight stages of social development across an individual's

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lifetime each offering a challenge met with a virtue as a reward well we prefer

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gift cards several issues so what do we learn that [Boy holding a gift card]

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far psychodynamic looks at unconscious thoughts and underlying drive and

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Erickson believed in development stages throughout life oh and there was that

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whole not super scientifically sound aspect to it this once because rather

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here psychodynamics involves a number of key features from Freudian thought

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including the unconscious mind the it'd go and super-ego and a libido and

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Erickson's eight stages of psychosocial development were definitely influenced

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by Freud's five stages of psychosexual development and in case you still have

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your doubts Erikson often works for Anna Freud Sigmund's daughter a neo Freudian [Erikson working with Anna Freud]

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indeed yeah now someone gets those two crazy kids in the matrix for Neos

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Freudian frolic we'd watch it really [Erikson and Anna in the matrix]

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