PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Projective Test, Penis Envy, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
18 Sep 2016
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Chapter 4 freud"s psychoanalytic theory: applications, related theoretical conception, and contemporary research. Freud"s tool of assessment: free association technique not efficient time consuming, some may not express their true feelings. Person being assessed is asked to respond to ambiguous items. Individual will project aspects of his or her own personality onto the test item when interpreting it. Showed inkblot images to hospitalized patients and identified inkblots that elicited different responses from different psychiatric groups. 10 cards ( 5 in black and white, 5 in colour) Assessor asks patients what they see then asks patients to explain why they felt that a given test item represented what they said it did. In interpreting responses, interested in: ***multiple choice: how the response, or percept, is formed, reasons for the response, content. Perceptions that match the structure of the inkblot = good level of psychological functioning that is well oriented toward reality.
