PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Projective Test, Apperception, Psychopathology
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Personality part 4 - psychodynamic & humanistic approaches. Rorschach inkblots: a projective technique in which respondents inner thoughts and feelings are believed to be revealed by analysis of their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots. Problems with projective techniques: results are difficult to interpret, list of common results are just obtained from other individuals with specific psychopathologies. If an individual produces these results, they may also have that specific psychopathology. Love/belonging friendship family: sexual intimacy esteem, self-esteem, confidence, achievement respect of others respect by others. Self-actualization: morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts. Humanist approach: argue that our personality differences arise from environmental constraints against climbing our needs hierarchy, ex. Early experience in infancy: early experiences in infancy are crucial to normal development, give rise to many of the myriad individual differences observed across human population.
