PSYC 2130 Lecture 2: Psych 2130 - Lecture 2 - 01_14_2019.2
Document Summary
The rorschach psychodiagnostic - continues to be a widely used personality tests - all graduate students get some training - popular in clinical teaching programs - still with us. Background - was developed by a swiss psychiatrist - hermann rorschach - interested in the relationship between perception (how we apprehend a stimulus) and personalty. He used to make the inkblots and give them to patients. Perception and personality - what you see adn what kind of person you are like. Meaning of projection - when you show these images of people, they project things onto the blot. Projection - ego defense mechanisms - freud - way of defending against unacceptable impulses and motivations. When faced with an ambiguous stimulus: (unclear) - 1) individual will impose meaning and structure - the human visual system does not like ambiguity- all the rorschach material is ambiguous - you look at it and you turn it into something.