PSYC102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: 16Pf Questionnaire, Thematic Apperception Test, Defence Mechanisms

• School: University of Regina
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC102
• Professor: Loretta Gerlach

Document Summary

Enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, motivations and behaviours across situations. 16 personality factors (traits). o 5 personality factors (traits) = extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience. Social learning theory: personality is determined by the environment, behaviour, consequences of behaviour and our beliefs (cognitions) about the consequences, describe you ^^ social learning is why it describes you o personal variables (cognitions, expectations, etc. Dynamic humanistic theory: positive fulfillment of life and growth towards self-actualization. Cognitive needs: curiosity, exploration, and understanding of world. Psychosexual stages of development o oral: analo phallic o latency o genital. Projective testo rorschach or thematic apperception test (ink blot) lomoarcpsd. 3 levels of consciousness: o conscious: pre conscious, unconscious. (iceberg metaphor). Three part theory of personality: ido egoo superego. Defence mechanisms:o unconscious strategies: balanced needs and conflicts list of defence mechanisms, repressiono rationalization (telling yourself it"s okay to do something)