PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychosexual Development, Psychoanalytic Theory, Preconscious

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Rahhal Tamara

Document Summary

Personality: what is personality, theories of personality. C. other perspectives: social cognitive, biological, humanistic, see text, personality testing, projective tests, rorschach, tat, personality inventories, mmpi. 4 topics central to psychoanalytic theory: levels of consciousness, structure of personality, psycho-sexual stages of development, anxiety and the defense mechanism. Oral stage (age 0-1: physical focus, psychological theme, symptoms of con ict, symptoms of xation. Anal stage (age 1-3: physical focus, psychological theme, symptoms of con ict/ xation: Phallic stage (age 3-6: physical focus, psychological theme, fixations/con icts. Genital stage (puberty - on: physical focus, psychological theme. The big five: you fall somewhere on each dimension: extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism/stability, openness to experience, conscientiousness. Present person with ambiguous stimuli multiple interpretations. Person idicates what they see, make up a story. Projections: they project their inner con icts, unconscious into their answers: rorschach inkblot test. Look at inkblot, tell me what you see. Answers re ect one"s inner feelings and con icts.