PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Penis Envy
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How a person adapts to the world. Who should get life in prison-or a suspended sentence. Personality effects on health, longevity (what part of your personality do others most often misunderstand?) Broad, trivial statements (barnum effect) that can apply to anyone. Widely used in clinical practice (82% of clinical psychologists use occasionally) Interpretation depends on clinician more than test taker. Directly ask people whether items describe their personality. Empirically keyed tests, if good managers like toast, then ask job candidates if they like toast. Conflict relating to sex & aggression (commonly frustrated) key to understanding personality, carried in our unconscious. Ego: demands of reality, partially conscious , (reality principle) Ego uses defence mechanisms to unconsciously distort reality to reduce anxiety. Whether or not you agree with freud, see defence mechanisms in daily life. Personality determined by conflict resolution amongst needs of mouth, anus, genitals, vs reality.
