PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Reticular Formation, Hans Eysenck, Defence Mechanisms

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. One develops a personality naturally as we travel through life. Personality psychologist focus on specific characteristics such as honesty or anxiousness or moodiness. Anticipated events: emphasizes the person"s own perspective and often seems intimate and personal in its reflection of the person"s inner life hopes, fears, and aspirations. Self-report: a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behaviour or mental state. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi-2): a well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems. Projective techniques: a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality. Rorschach inkblot test: a projective personality test in which individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkblots are analyzed to identify a respondent"s inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure.