PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Unconscious Mind
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Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. Nomothetic approaches: study of personality that focuses on how common characteristics vary from person to person. Ideographic approaches: person-centered approaches to studying personality. Concepts of personality may reflect historical & cultural forms of individuality. Objective measures: relatively direct assessments of personality, usually based on information gathered through self-report questionnaires or observer rating: trait inventory. The marshmallow test: kid can either eat marshmallow now or wait and get another one in 10 minutes. Amount of self-control kids exhibit at age 4-5 is correlated with social and academic outcomes later in life. Freud: interested in unconscious influences, early childhood experience, sexuality (humans have a drive toward survive) Unconscious mind: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memoires. Trace back from conscious mind to uncover information about unconscious mind. Personality is largely shaped by unconscious mind.
