PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thematic Apperception Test, Sigmund Freud, Trait Theory
Document Summary
Lecture 7 wk 8 mar 5th 2013. Personality: an overview: each person is consistent to some extent; we have coherent traits and action pattern that arise repeatedly, each person is distinctive to some extent; behavioural differences exist between individuals. Theories and techniques covered: psychoanalytic theories of personality, phenomenological theories of personality, behavioural and social learning theories, trait conceptions of personality, the projective hypothesis, association techniques, completion techniques, construction techniques, expression techniques. Sigmund freud (1856-1936: the rorschach test, t. a. t. > thematic apperception test: origins of psychoanalytic theory, infer unconscious desires and wishes from exposing individual to ambiguous (has no meaning, the unconscious creates one) stimuli. The structure of the mind -> 4 diff. structures. Impulsion, towards immediate satisfaction w/o: pleasure principle: regard for values, good or evil, or morality. Trait conception of personality *exam def"n: a trait is any relatively enduring way in which one individual differs from another, cattell"s factor-analytic trait theory, 16-personality factor (16-pf) -> sim.
