PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Phallic Stage
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Personality - an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychodynamic theories - view personality with a focus on the conscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis - freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and con icts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious - according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts,wishes feelings and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Freud originally though that unexplained deafness may be caused by not wanting to hear something aroused intense anxiety. This was proven wrong so he went to . Free association - in psychoanalysis a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Would allow freud to retrace the line of past, following chain of thought leading into patient"s unconscious.
