PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Freudian Slip, Rorschach Test, Karen Horney
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Neo -f reud ian, ps y c ho dy n am ic theoris ts. Psychodynamic theorists differed from freud in a few ways: adler and horney believed that anxiety and personality are a function of social, not sexual tensions in childhood. Jung believed that we have a collective unconscious, containing images from our species" experiences, not just personal repressed memories and wishes. Freud tried to get unconscious themes to be projected into the conscious world through free association and dream analysis. Projective tests are a structured, systematic exposure to a standardized set of ambiguous prompts, designed to reveal inner dynamics. R ors c ha c h tes t: what do you see in these inkblots? . P roblem : results don"t link well to traits (low validity) and different raters get different results (low reliability). E v idenc e h as up d ated f reud "s id ea s.
