Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Hermann Rorschach, Dream Interpretation, Thought Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Some psychologists use this test to examine a person"s personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. [3] the test is named after its creator, swiss psychologist hermann rorschach. Resistance: clients have a strong unconscious investment in maintaining the status quo, resistance is a sign that anxiety-arousing material is about to be approached. Transference: when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if they were an important gure in the client"s past chapter 17, brings out into the open repressed feelings, there is both positive and negative transference. Insight: acceptance of previously repressed ideas, relief of symptoms. Contingency management: use of positive reinforcement to teach adaptive behaviour, e. g. , lovaas reinforced eye contact in children with autism, then he reinforced language responses by these children.