PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Hermann Rorschach
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Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic theories of personality view human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, including associated motive and con icts. His theory of personality and the associated treatment techniques. Proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations in uence personality. Unconscious: the part of our mind containing thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories of which we are not aware. Eg#1) lost feeling in one"s hand might be caused by a fear of touching one"s genitals. Eg#2) unexplained blindness or deafness might be caused by not wanting to see or hear something that aroused intense anxiety. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. He believed that the painful unconscious memories often from childhood, could be retrieved and released by free association.
