PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operational Definition, Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity
31 Jul 2015
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Assessment (chapters 3 and 5: personality assessment. Every good psychological report should where the intellect of the patient is: should at least attempt to describe why the individual reacted the way he/she did. **candidacy vs. psychotherapy: can help determine whether or not an individual is a candidate for psychotherapy. The projective hypothesis: when faced with ambiguous stimulus: individual will impose meaning and structure, individual does so in an idiosyncratic matter which reflects important underlying processes relevant to personality. Rorschach and thematic apperception test: r: they measure psychopathology and your unconscious motivation. was designed to discover unconscious motivation historically has been the most widely used personality tests. He was interested in the relationship between perception and personality. Show and ask the patient what they see on each card. Inquiry: your job is to ascertain the reason as to why the see what they see. Testing the limits: you can say cannot say what you see in the picture.
