Question

6. What friend was the head of the psychology association?

7. In Freud’s book beyond the pleasure principle, what did freud proslate?

8. Modern neuroscience has connected brain functioning to pleasure seeking. Neuroscientist find that two neurotransmitters dopamine and … are present in the brain when pleasurable activities occur.

9. Explain the pleasure seeking principle?

10. Solms has produced evidence of repression as well as defense mechanisms in the … hemisphere of the brain.

Answer 1

7. In his book, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud postulated that human behaviour and thought were not just motivated by sexual instincts. In this book, he developed his theory of drives with the addition of the death instinct or Thanatos.

8. Neuroscientists find that two neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, are present in the brain when pleasurable activities occur.

9. The pleasure seeking principle, being the driving force of the id, is the instinctual tendency to seek pleasure and avoid of pain in order to satisfy physiological and psychological needs.

10. Solms has produced evidence of repression as well as defense mechanisms in the right hemisphere of the brain.