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Week 6: Psych Assessment/Post-Freudian Flashcards

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What caused a rift between Freud and Jung?

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Jung’s psychology of the unconscious - each were unable to admit the other could be wrong

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What is the collective unconscious?

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Reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge with which we are all born

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What does the collective unconscious contain?

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  • memories
  • ideas
  • emotions inherited from our ancestors
  • archetypes
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What are archetypes?

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Forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures

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List some examples of collective unconscious

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  • experiences of love at first sight
  • deja vu
  • creative experiences
  • near death experience
  • parallels in dreams, fantasies, mythologies and literature
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What are archetypal behaviours?

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Typical, eternally repeated behaviours among human beings

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What are the four main archetypes?

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  • the self
  • the persona
  • the anima and animus
  • the shadow
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Describe the self

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The archetype that represents the transcendence of all opposites, so that every aspect of personality is expressed equally. The goal of life is to realise the self.

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Describe the persona

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  • the mask you put on before you show yourself to the world

- your public image

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When can problems occur between the persona and the self?

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When there is disconcordance between them - when our persona differs too much from our self - psychopathology like anxiety or depression can occur

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What is meant by anima/animus?

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  • we are initially neither male or female

- society gradually moulds us into either

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Anima

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Female aspect in the collective unconscious of men

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Animus

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Male aspect in the collective unconscious of women

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Describe the shadow

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  • from our prehuman, animal past
  • dark side of the ego and the evil we are capable of; contains animal urges
  • can be a source of creativity
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List some other archetypes

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  • father and child
  • the hero
  • faithful animal
  • trickster
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Describe the mother archetype

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Our ability to recognise the relationship of mothering; if our own mother failed to meet the demands of the archetype, it may be that they spend time in the church, ocean, motherland, or meditating with mary

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When did Jung say major personality changes take place?

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Between the ages of 35 and 40

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How does personality develop in the first half of life?

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We focus on the objective world

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How does personality develop in the second half of life?

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We focus on fulfilling our capacities

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What is meant by individuation?

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Becoming a whole being: the need to integrate the contents of the unconscious with the conscious mind

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What were Jung’s main tools for assessment and therapy?

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Free association, world association and dream analysis

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What is free association?

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Saying whatever comes to mind

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What is word association?

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Saying the first thing that comes to mind when you hear a specific word

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What is dream analysis?

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Interpreting dreams, looking for symbolism, etc

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What are Jung’s psychological types?

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  • introverted vs. extroverted
  • thinking vs. feeling
  • intuition vs. sensation
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Describe someone who is extroverted (Jung)

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  • focus on external world
  • external activities and social involvement
  • more energised when around people
  • don’t like spending too much time alone
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Describe someone who is introverted (Jung)

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  • focus on inner, subjective world
  • more interested in thinking and reflecting
  • dreamer
  • reading & ideas
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Describe a thinking person (Jung)

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Intellectual cognition, forms logical conclusions, conscious calculation, reason, rational processes

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Describe a feeling person (Jung)

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Subjective, emotional evaluation, gut feelings, empathic

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Describe someone driven by intuition (Jung)

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Unconscious drives, abstract, theoretical, future orientated, trust insight, more subjective

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Describe someone driven by sensation (Jung)

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How we sense the world, through our senses, how we know something exists, information that is tangible

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How many personality combinations did Jung come up with?

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8

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What are some criticisms of Jung’s personality types?

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  • based on clinical observation
  • introspection
  • anecdote
  • hypothetical theory and difficult to verify
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List some ways of evaluating personality

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  • tests
  • interviews
  • observation
  • physiological recordings
  • intelligence tests
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What are the three common personality tests?

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  • myers-briggs
  • MMPI
  • big 5
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Briefly describe some differences between Freud and Jung

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  • different ideas about the libido and religion
  • Jung deemphasised sexual development and focused on the collective unconscious - Jung’s work = more mystical and scientific
  • Freud said complexes arise due to childhood traumas; Jung said that these come from the collective unconscious
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Briefly describe Jung’s theory of personality

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  • symbolism and culture

- conscious relationship with unconscious forces

38
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Define individuation

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Becoming a whole being; integrating the contents of the unconscious with the conscious mind

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Define reliability

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The degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results

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Define test-retest reliability

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Measure of stability obtained by administering the same test twice over a period of time to a group

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Define inter-rater reliability

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Used to assess the degree to which raters differ in their decisions

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Define internal consistency

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Used to evaluate the degree to which different test items that probe the same construct provide consistent results

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Define validity

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How well a test measures what it is supposed to

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Define face validity

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A measure appears to be assessing the intended construct under study

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Define construct validity

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Does it measure what it is supposed to and not other variables?

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Define criterion validity?

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Used to predict future or current performance and correlate test results with other criterions of interest

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What is the MBTI?

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The Myers Briggs Trait Inventory is a self report questionnaire created by Katherine Cook Biggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs-Myers. It includes introversion and extroversion, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, and perceiving and judgement.

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Describe an introvert (MBTI)

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  • expends energy through action
  • prefers to reflect before and after action
  • needs quiet time to rebuilt energy
  • thought oriented
  • seeks depth of knowledge
  • prefers substantial interaction
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Describe an extrovert (MBTI)

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  • draws energy from action
  • motivation declines if inactive
  • needs breaks from reflection to rebuild energy
  • prefers frequent interaction
  • gets energy and recharges from being with people
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Describe a sensing person (MBTI)

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  • more likely to trust tangible info
  • distrust hunches
  • prefer details and facts
  • meaning is in the data
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Describe an intuitive person (MBTI)

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  • more likely to trust info that can be associated with other and is not reliant on symptoms
  • more interested in future possibilities
  • meaning is in underlying theory and principles which are manifested in the data
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Describe a thinking person (MBTI)

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  • tend to decide things from a more detached standpoint
  • logical, reasonable, causal and consistent
  • concern for the truth
  • has trouble interacting with people who are illogical
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Describe a feeling person (MBTI)

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  • tend to become to decisions by associating or empathising with the situation from an internal view
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Describe a perceiving person (MBTI)

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Preference for sensing and intuition

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Describe a judgemental person (MBTI)

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Preference for thinking or feeling

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Describe the construct validity of the MBTI

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  • should be four clusters
  • factors should be independent
  • should be small measurement error
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Describe the verdict of the usefulness of the MBTI

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There is no evidence that the MBTI measures anything of value and no evidence for the utility of the test

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Reliability of the MBTI

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Profiles not change over time, because type theory is based on innate tendencies

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Jung’s personal unconscious

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Composed of repressed element’s from one’s life

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