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Personality II
Carolyn R. Fallahi, Ph. D.
Defensive Mechanisms
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Repression
Regression
Reaction Formation
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement
Sublimation
Projective Tests
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Goal: present ambiguous stimulus and ask
test-takers to describe it or tell a story about it.
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) or CAT
Draw a person, Draw a family, Sentence Stem
Rorschach Inkblot test – 1921 Hermann
Rorschach
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10 inkblots reflects our inner feelings and conflicts.
For example … if we see predatory animals or
weapons, we infer that we have aggressive tendencies.
Projective Tests
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Issues
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Reliability
Validity
Universal agreement – not very good.
Training issues
Nonetheless … used widely.
Neo-Freudians
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Neo-Freudians accepted basic ideas: the personality
structures of the id, ego, and superego; the
importance of the unconscious; the shaping of
personality in childhood; and the dynamics of
anxiety and the defense mechanisms.
They did veer away from Freud in 2 important ways:
the role of the conscious mind nd they doubted that
sex and aggression were all-consuming motivations.
Alfred Adler & Karen Horney
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The role of childhood.
Social; not sexual.
Carl Jung
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Jung = the unconscious contains more than
our repressed thoughts and feelings.
He believed we also have a collective
unconscious – a common reservoir of images
derived from our species’ universal
experiences.
Freud critique
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Freud did not have access to all that we have
learned about human development, thinking
and emotion.
Freud’s legacy
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Nonetheless, Freud’s legacy continues on.
Some of his ideas are enduring.