PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Phallic Stage, Penis Envy, Trait Theory
3 Apr 2014
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Candidacy for psychotherapy - deciphering if the patient is a good candidate for psychotherapy. Personality assessments are most strongly related to theoretical orientation of the patient. Beliefs and perspective alters the assessment the most. Personality tests vary according to 3 important dimensions. Theoretical/rational approach to test construction - look into current professional opinions before concluding. Free association(presenting cards and staying as neutral as possible)! Inquiry(asking questions about why the patient saw what he/she did, job is to ascertain determinant of thought)! Look through the results and interpret by looking through common answers. Response determinants: location, content, originality, form, movement. Ideas or answers are projections of unconscious thoughts/motivations. Humanistic psychologist, formulated client centre psychology, as a result of his dissatisfaction with freud"s ideas. Wolpe: using the principles of conditioning, concerned himself with a more time friendly psychotherapy. Overt behaviour: a behavior that is directly observable; child a hits child b! Covert behaviour: a behavior that can not be directly observed.
