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HTP signs of schizophrenia

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Key hole tree

Split tree

Transparency

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H.T.P. tests

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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

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HTP test -

What percent of gays drew opposite sex first?

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95%

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HTP test - paranoia

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Eyes stare back at you

Color purple (favorite color)

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HTP test chromatic drawings

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Color

Represent childhood

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HTP test achromatic drawings

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Absence of color

Present life

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HTP test - fruit in the tree

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Need to become pregnant

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HTP test elaborate/elongated chimney

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Penis envy

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HTP test - short or cut off chimney

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Castration anxiety

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HTP test - prominent walkway or welcome mat

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Accessible to others

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HTP test - heavy shadowing in achromatic drawings

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Anxiety

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HTP test - teeth showing

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Hostility or aggression

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HTP test - hands in pockets or behind back

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Master bating fantasies

“Pocket pool”

Or you don’t know what to do with their hands

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HTP test - knothole in the tree

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Scar or trauma earlier in life

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HTP test - animal in knothole

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Nurturing in life

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HTP test - clown

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Hiding from something

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Id

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Pleasure principle (unconscious)

Child in all of us

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Ego

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Reality principle (conscious)

Adult part of you

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Superego

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Morality

Conscience

Parent part of you

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Scapegoating

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To blame a person or group

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Free floating anger

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Generalized anger at everyone or thing

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Displaced aggression

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Take frustrations out on an innocent victim (thing or person)

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Fantasy

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Daydreaming

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Repression

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Motivated forgetting

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Suppression

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Putting off a thought or emotion until later

Pushing down feelings, not letting self feel

Only defense mechanism on a conscience level

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Regression

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Reverting to immature or previous forms of behavior

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Procrastination

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Put off something until later

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Emotional insulation

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Guarding self against future emotional hurts by insulation

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Rationalization

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Giving better sounding reasons or excuses

Sour grapes

Sweet lemons

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Projection

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Ascribe (give) to others, one’s own traits

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Substitution

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Replace behavior with less acceptable one

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Sublimation

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Direct energies (usually sexual) to higher goal

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Compensation

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Make up for failure

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Overcompensation

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Go overboard in compensating

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Identification

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Take credit or glory from someone else

-person, group, membership, thing

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Stereotyped behavior

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Refusing to change even though behavior is no longer adaptive

Adult acting/dressing as a teen

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Reaction fermation

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Doing the opposite of the way you really feel

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Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)

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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

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TAT card 16

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Relatively ambiguous stimulus

Brings out hostility and negativity in people

Blank card/nothing there

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Rorschach test (ink blot test)

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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

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Rorschach inquiry

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2 questions

  • where do you see [object]
  • what makes it look like [object]
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Rorschach scoring

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WF+AP
-example of scoring

Location
Fit the shape of the blot
Content
Popular response
Original
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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi)

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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

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Aesop’s fables

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500 different stories

Sour grapes rationalization
-turn nose up at goal out of reach

Sweet lemon rationalization
-make undesirable goal sound better

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Freudian slip

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Subconscious thoughts come out accidentally

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5 stages of psychosexual development

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Oral (1st year of life)

Anal (2nd year of life)

Phallic (3-6 years)

Latency (7-11 years)

Genital (12+ years)

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Erogenous zone - oral

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Putting things in your mouth
-biting, sucking, incorporating nipple

Derive pleasure

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Erogenous zone - anal

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Potty training

Mud pies

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Erogenous zone - phallic

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Oedipus complex

  • sex and marriage with mother
  • boy’s attracted to mother

Electra complex
-little girl wants only her father

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2 ways to resolve Oedipus complex and Electra complex

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Identification with the same sex parent

Find a replacement figure for opposite sex parent

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Erogenous zone - latency

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No erogenous zone

Under the surface

Substitute contact sports for sex

Develop social skills to replace sex

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Erogenous zone - genital

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Ready for heterosexual relationship

Take adult responsibility for relationship

  • birth control
  • financial planning and responsibility
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Oral personality - dependent

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Gullible

Passive

Need lots of attention

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Oral personality - aggressive

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Argumentative

Biting

Sarcasm

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Anal personality - retentive

Felix Unger [FU]

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Hanging on, OCD, miser

Stingy

Orderly

Needing clean

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Anal personality - expulsive

Oscar M [OM]

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Disorderly

Messy

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Phallic stage personality

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Penis envy

Castration anxiety

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Genital stage personality

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If you do not mature to this stage you stay in anal stage

-homosexual relationship

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Inferiority complex

-A. Adler

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All born with feelings of inferiority

Spend life trying to become superior
-compensate

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2 types of traits

-G. All port

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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
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Self serving bias

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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
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Self serving bias - personal factors

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Internal attribute if you do well

-good worker, applied yourself

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Self serving bias - situational factors

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If someone else does well

  • must have cheated
  • teachers pet
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What percent of college professors rate themselves superior to their peers

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90%

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What percent of pet owners think their pet is smarter than other pets

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75%

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Why do we put ourselves down?

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Fishing for compliments

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