PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intelligence Quotient, Mary Ainsworth, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310H
• Professor: Carly Bumbacco

Document Summary

Freud"s psychoanalytic theory of personality: applications, conception, research. The logic of projective tests: person being assessed is asked to respond to ambiguous items, individual will project aspects of his or her own personality onto the test item when interpreting it, may reveal underlying, unconscious psychodynamics. Projective tests is a more modern and efficient version, not developed by freud. Showed inkblot images to hospitalized patients and identified inkblots that elicited. Is a famous projective test different responses from different psychiatric groups. Consisted of 10 cards 5 in black and white, 5 in colour. Assessor asks patients what they see then they ask patients to explain why they felt that a given test item represented what they said it did. In interpreting responses, they are interested in: how the response, or percept is formed, reasons for the response, content. Perceptions that match the structure of the inkblot: good level of psychological functioning that is well-oriented toward reality.