PSYCH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Rorschach Test
10 Nov 2016
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Big idea: most mental life is unconscious. Retreating to a mode of behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development: reaction formation. Replacing threatening wishes and fantasies with their opposites. Being extra not-gay as a way to deal with your gay desires. Reaction formation: modern evidence: 2 groups of heterosexual men: Greater circumference, more blood, greater arousal: heterosexual video: low homophobia insignificantly higher lesbian video: high homophobia insignificantly higher, gay video: high homophobia significantly higher. The unconscious still rears its head: parapraxes (slips of the tongue, humor, dreams. Stick to things that you can measure directly: behavior. The big 5 personality traits (ocean: openness to experience. How do we determine whether a measurement is good: reliability. Measurement assessing what it is supposed to assess. Accuracy of measurement: unreliable and invalid. Results are al(cid:449)ays differe(cid:374)t, does(cid:374)"t actually assess/not in ideal spot: unreliable and valid. Results are different, but average is in ideal spot: reliable, not valid.
