PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psychosexual Development, Erogenous Zone, Reality Principle
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Note other behaviours appearance, speech patterns, etc: drawbacks. Dependence on co-operation honesty of interviewee: behavioural assessments. Aim is not solely to describe" behaviour: specific behaviour, frequency, specific situations, under what conditions. Inter-judge reliability: high level of agreement among observers. Personality scales: objective measures, use standard questions and agreed upon scoring key, advantage, collect large amount of data, disadvantage, validity of answers (truthfully answered?, validity scales. Happy-go-lucky vs. sober : cattell gave way to more modern tests which have fewer traits, trait based personality assessment, modern test. Neo-pi-r (costa and mccrae: big 5 personality traits, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness. Eysenck, had the fewest traits 2. Introversion/ extraversion and neuroticism/stability: the big modern: personality assessment, empirical devised tests. Items were answered differently by differing groups: based on responses by normals" and psychiatric patients. How much is automatic: freud"s theory was very controversial as he proposed the following processes: Children have sexual feelings: organization of awareness, conscious.
