PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychosexual Development, Thematic Apperception Test, Psychopathology
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Midterm, june 8 --> methods, development, and personality --> ends at personality. Sample questions on tuesday: more comprehensive --> reading stories and applying information. In children self-esteem is super high --> positivity bias, protective optimism. List and have examples of each big 5 personality traits environment: describe the psychodynamic structure of the mind, describe 7 defense mechanisms, describe the five stage of psychosexual development according to freud. Personality: personality is an individuals characteristic style of behaviour, though, and feeling, the study of individual differences and common trends in the population, what makes us different from one another. Personality inventories: rely on self reports --> subjective about one"s beliefs, usually an interview or a written questionnaire. Low validity (does not actually measure very well: does not translate to everyday life very well. Lots of detailed questions fro accurate responses: measures: Internalizing problems (anxiety: clinical problems, externalizing (behaviour)
