PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Weaning, Genital Stage, Sexual Conflict
2 May 2013
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Personality: distinctive & relatively consistent pattern of behaviours, thoughts, motives & emotions of an individual. Trait: habitual way of behaving, thinking & feeling; central & secondary (more changeable) Temperament physiological disposition to respond to environment in certain ways. Assumption test taker will project unconscious conflicts & motives onto an ambiguous stimulus. Thematic apperception test: tell a story about the hero in the picture, based on murray"s theory of personality. I like to go to parties" t or f: personality self-esteem test be a critical consumer! More reliable & valid than projective tests. Extreme scores suggest a problem or disorder. Scores compared to norms (n = 2,600) 4 scales to see if respondent presents self accurately or in a biased wa. Lie scale attempt to present self in positive light: i smile at everyone i meet (t) Choleric (yellow bile, fire) bad tempered. Statistical method that looks at the intercorrelations among # measures.
