PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychotherapy, Agreeableness, Content Validity
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Are they tangential? e. g. ask relation with mother, end up telling about all relations. importance gives us a sense of person; just like a normal convo. Avg amount of time: 10 minutes blot tests are unstructured level of structure. The way they do that tells us something about them. There"s relationship between perception and personality the projective hypothesis (frank. 1939) when faced with an ambiguous stimuli individual will impose meaning and structure individual does so in an idiosyncratic matter which re ects important underlying processes relevant to personality instruction: report what you see/are reminded of. 1: free association the rorschach psychodiagnostic phase put card down; ask tell me what you see" e. g. look at it for minutes remove self from situation; do not give cues. Funder"s second law: there are no perfect indicators of personality, only clues and they are always ambiguous funder"s third law: something is better than nothing.