modern concepts of psychology?

Question

Im having to write an assignment about contemporary psychological concepts and how they are used in literature?

What would be modern psychological concepts???

Answer 1

There is Leon Festinger and his "theory of cognitive dissonance" in which people will find any excuse to make themselves feel better when something or someone they believed in so intensely fails them.
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory24.htm

Muzafer Sherif Robber's Cave Experiment: experiment on intergroup conflict and co-operation
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html
The results of this study can be seen in the book "Lord of the Flies"

Solomon Asch's studies in conformity.
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/asch_conformity.html
Two very popular books in which the central theme is conformity:
George Orwell's "1984"
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

Answer 2

There is
Erik Erikson psychosocial theory on social development is an approach to the personality that extends Freudian psychosexual theory. Erikson's theory is unique in that it encompasses the entire life cycle and recognizes the impact of society, history, and culture on personality.

Sigmund Freud is considered the father of psychoanalysis, which may be the granddaddy of all pseudoscientific psychotherapies, second only to Scientology as the champion purveyor of false and misleading claims about the mind, mental health, and mental illness.

Jean Piaget Cogntitive development theory

Ivan Pavlov learning theory

B.F. Skinner learning theory

These are just a few here is a link that will give additional names and information www.psy.pdx.edu