PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 46: Rorschach Test, Karen Horney, Carl Jung
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: to provide the psychological x-ray by asking tells which people view ambiguous pictures and then make up stories about them: rorschach ink- blot test . : people describe what the see in a series of inkblots: some view the test as like an icebreaker and a revealing interview technique, evaluating freud"s psychoanalytic perspective and modern views of the. Unconscious: modern research contradicts many of freud"s ideas, some assume that freud overestimated parental influence and underestimated peer influence, conscious and gender identity form as the child resolves the. Oedipus complex: there is little support of the idea of defense mechanism disgusting sexual and aggressive impulses, psychologists also condemn his theory for its scientific shortcomings: His theory rests on few objective observations and parts of it give little testable hypotheses: biggest problem of his ideas: . We indeed have limited access to all that goes on in our minds.