PSY 3171 Lecture 7: September 25.docx
9 Oct 2014
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Psychoanalytic approach: psychodynamic perspective: concern with the dynamics or interaction of forces lying deep within the mind occurs due to repression of bad memories to the subconscious. This refers to people who channel creative energy from their trauma to create their masterpiece. Ego is relaxed, insight is given): dream interpretation. Dreams expressed the id and what was not fulfilled in your life thus they could provide insight into the unconscious. Manifest content: conscious dream content remembered upon awakening. Categories contribute to planning of treatment programs and facilities: disadvantages: Rorshach (inkblot test: not so much about what you see but how this is processed. Are they honing in or looking at the big picture. Iq flawed, man-made, may not even exist: psychometric approach: this is the dominant approach psychometrists locate stable underlying characteristics or traits that presumably exist in differing degrees in everyone.
