PSYC 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Projective Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Structured Interview

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3200
• Professor: Erdodi

Document Summary

Temperament is one"s level of emotional reactivity. Personality is enduring patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving. Each individual is internally consistent to some degree; we have coherent and stable traits and behavior patterns that occur reliably. Each person is distinctive to some extent. Reaction formation: someone is really nice so you accuse him or her of hating you. Undoing: trying to compensate for a horrible behavior. Type a: insatiable drive to achieve the next thing. High in type a, low in type b. Carl rogers" q-sort technique: ideal self and actual self. Trait: relatively enduring feature in which one individual differs from another. Cattell"s factory analytic trait theory: shows clusters of traits. Projective method is a category of tests for studying personality with unstructured stimuli. Hypothesis: nothing perceived as something is revealing of the individual"s inner conflicts. Critics portray test as possessing low reliability and a general lack of predictive validity.