PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dream Interpretation, Authoritarianism, Unconscious Mind

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Personality: personality: individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Study developing explanations of the basis for psychological differences among people. Explanations of personality differences are concerned with prior events and anticipated events that affect personality: personality inventories use multiple-choice/ forced-choice (y/n). Self-report: series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state. Mmpi-2 (minnesota multiphasic personality inventory): well-researched clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems. Older 567 questions, newer =338 true/false questions: projective techniques: standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality. Rorschach inkblot test: individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkblots are analyzed to identify a respondent"s inner feelings and interpret his/her personality structure.