PSYC37H3 Lecture : Chapter 8.docx
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Chapter 8 topic 8a theories of personality and projective techniques. Two fundamental features of the personality construct: first each person is consistent to some extent and each person is distinctive to some extent. The notion of personality is used to explain behavioral differences between persons and to understand the behavioral consistency within each individual. In addition to understanding personality, psychologists also seek to measure it. Psychoanalysis was the original creation of sigmund freud. Freud developed a general theory of psychological functioning within the concept of the unconcscious as its foundation. Freud believed that our most significant personal motivations are largely beyond conscious awareness and that dreams portray our unconscious motives in a disguised form. Freud"s concept of the unconscious generated a whole family of projective techniques, including inkblot tests, word association approaches, sentence completion techniques, and storytelling techniques. Freud divided our mind into three structures: the id, the ego, and the superego.
