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"most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots designed by Herman Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots"
-i.e. if one sees predatory animals/weapons, may infer one has aggressive tendencies
-image p. 428
-NOT an "emotional MRI" |
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"a projective test in which people express their inner feelings & interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes"
-i.e. show a day dreaming boy--> those who imagine he is fantasizing-presumed to be projecting their own goals
-"TAT" image (p. 428) |
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"a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics"
-...then asking test-takers to describe/ tell a story about it |
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"Carole Jung's concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our specie's history"
-may explain... why spiritual concerns are deeply tooted
-& why people in different culture share certain myths |
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"psychoanalytic defense mechanism-shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet"
-i.e. students upset over an exam--> snap at a roommate |
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"psychoanalytic defense mechanism-ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings"
-"I hate him" becomes "I love him" |
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"psychoanalytic theory-the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings & memories from consciousness"
-UNDERLIES ALL THE OTHER DEFENSE MECHANISMS
-i.e. why we do NOT remember lust for parents @ childhood
-often incomplete; come out in dreams & speech |
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"psychoanalytic defense mechanism-an individual faces w/ anxiety retreats to a more infantile psycho sexual stage, where some psychic-energy remains fixated"
-i.e. kids first day of school-regress to thumb sucking |
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"psychoanalytic defense mechanism-people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others"
-"he doesn't trust me" therefore "I don't trust him"
-El Salvadoran saying, "The thief thinks everyone else is a thief" |
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"defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more than threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions"
-i.e. habitual drinkers drink w/ friends "just to be sociable" |
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"in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality"
-ego protects itself
-reduce & redirect anxiety
-6 examples: repression; regression; reaction formation; projection; rationalization; displacement |
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"Freud--lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psycho sexual stage-conflicts were unresolved"
-STRONG CONFLICT COULD LOCK--PLEASURE-SEEKING ENERGIES |
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"process-Freud--children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superego's"
-gender identity--identification w/ same-sex parent |
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"Freud--a boy's sexual desires toward his mother & feelings of jealousy & hatred for the rival father"
-girl's parallel--Electra complex |
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"childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital)---id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones"
-Phallic stage--boy's genital stimulation |
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"Part of the personality that according to Freud, represents internalized ideals & provides standards for judgment (the conscience) & for future aspirations"
-VOICE OF OUR MORAL COMPASS (CONSCIENCE)
-strong superego=virtuous & guilt-ridden
-weak superego= self-indulgent & remorseless
-strives for perfection |
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"the largely conscious, "executive" part of persoality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id superego, and reality. The ego operates in the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pressure rather than pain"
-seeks to gratify id's impulses--for long-term pleasure |
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