Chapter 10-personality Flashcards
HTP signs of schizophrenia
Key hole tree
Split tree
Transparency
H.T.P. tests
Created by John Buck
Projected thoughts
Projected feelings
Projected emotions
No right or wrong answers
Analyze questions based on what you were thinking and feeling at the time
HTP test -
What percent of gays drew opposite sex first?
95%
HTP test - paranoia
Eyes stare back at you
Color purple (favorite color)
HTP test chromatic drawings
Color
Represent childhood
HTP test achromatic drawings
Absence of color
Present life
HTP test - fruit in the tree
Need to become pregnant
HTP test elaborate/elongated chimney
Penis envy
HTP test - short or cut off chimney
Castration anxiety
HTP test - prominent walkway or welcome mat
Accessible to others
HTP test - heavy shadowing in achromatic drawings
Anxiety
HTP test - teeth showing
Hostility or aggression
HTP test - hands in pockets or behind back
Master bating fantasies
“Pocket pool”
Or you don’t know what to do with their hands
HTP test - knothole in the tree
Scar or trauma earlier in life
HTP test - animal in knothole
Nurturing in life
HTP test - clown
Hiding from something
Id
Pleasure principle (unconscious)
Child in all of us
Ego
Reality principle (conscious)
Adult part of you
Superego
Morality
Conscience
Parent part of you
Scapegoating
To blame a person or group
Free floating anger
Generalized anger at everyone or thing
Displaced aggression
Take frustrations out on an innocent victim (thing or person)
Fantasy
Daydreaming
Repression
Motivated forgetting
Suppression
Putting off a thought or emotion until later
Pushing down feelings, not letting self feel
Only defense mechanism on a conscience level
Regression
Reverting to immature or previous forms of behavior
Procrastination
Put off something until later
Emotional insulation
Guarding self against future emotional hurts by insulation
Rationalization
Giving better sounding reasons or excuses
Sour grapes
Sweet lemons
Projection
Ascribe (give) to others, one’s own traits
Substitution
Replace behavior with less acceptable one
Sublimation
Direct energies (usually sexual) to higher goal
Compensation
Make up for failure
Overcompensation
Go overboard in compensating
Identification
Take credit or glory from someone else
-person, group, membership, thing
Stereotyped behavior
Refusing to change even though behavior is no longer adaptive
Adult acting/dressing as a teen
Reaction fermation
Doing the opposite of the way you really feel
Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)
Personal interpretation of what you perceive
Identifies the thoughts, feelings, personality
Deals with 3 parts
-past, present, future
No right or wrong answer
20 cards in the test
TAT card 16
Relatively ambiguous stimulus
Brings out hostility and negativity in people
Blank card/nothing there
Rorschach test (ink blot test)
Free association
- first thing that comes to mind
- do not censor the thoughts
Set of norms established
- normative data, know what people see
- most reasonable data
No right or wrong answers
Rorschach inquiry
2 questions
- where do you see [object]
- what makes it look like [object]
Rorschach scoring
WF+AP
-example of scoring
Location Fit the shape of the blot Content Popular response Original
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi)
Scored objectively
-either answers are true of false
556 questions
- deliberately try to trip you up
- ask same question with different phrasing
Lie scales/validity tests built into test
-instead of giving honest answers, usually socially accepted answers are given
Most valid personality test
Aesop’s fables
500 different stories
Sour grapes rationalization
-turn nose up at goal out of reach
Sweet lemon rationalization
-make undesirable goal sound better
Freudian slip
Subconscious thoughts come out accidentally
5 stages of psychosexual development
Oral (1st year of life)
Anal (2nd year of life)
Phallic (3-6 years)
Latency (7-11 years)
Genital (12+ years)
Erogenous zone - oral
Putting things in your mouth
-biting, sucking, incorporating nipple
Derive pleasure
Erogenous zone - anal
Potty training
Mud pies
Erogenous zone - phallic
Oedipus complex
- sex and marriage with mother
- boy’s attracted to mother
Electra complex
-little girl wants only her father
2 ways to resolve Oedipus complex and Electra complex
Identification with the same sex parent
Find a replacement figure for opposite sex parent
Erogenous zone - latency
No erogenous zone
Under the surface
Substitute contact sports for sex
Develop social skills to replace sex
Erogenous zone - genital
Ready for heterosexual relationship
Take adult responsibility for relationship
- birth control
- financial planning and responsibility
Oral personality - dependent
Gullible
Passive
Need lots of attention
Oral personality - aggressive
Argumentative
Biting
Sarcasm
Anal personality - retentive
Felix Unger [FU]
Hanging on, OCD, miser
Stingy
Orderly
Needing clean
Anal personality - expulsive
Oscar M [OM]
Disorderly
Messy
Phallic stage personality
Penis envy
Castration anxiety
Genital stage personality
If you do not mature to this stage you stay in anal stage
-homosexual relationship
Inferiority complex
-A. Adler
All born with feelings of inferiority
Spend life trying to become superior
-compensate
2 types of traits
-G. All port
Cardinal
- everything you do, say, believe in centers around 1 thought/trait
- very few people have cardinal trait
Central trait
- basic building blocks of the core of your personality
- put them all together and you may or may not have a cardinal trait
Self serving bias
Looking out for #1
Most people give themselves more credit than they do to others
Not as common in the Asian population
- very humble
- not wanting to stick out
- tend to be modest
Self serving bias - personal factors
Internal attribute if you do well
-good worker, applied yourself
Self serving bias - situational factors
If someone else does well
- must have cheated
- teachers pet
What percent of college professors rate themselves superior to their peers
90%
What percent of pet owners think their pet is smarter than other pets
75%
Why do we put ourselves down?
Fishing for compliments
