10:56 - psychodynamic theories and modern views of the unconscious

Question 1

psychodynamic theories

Answer 1

modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.

Question 2

alfred adler and karen horney

Answer 2

agreed with Freud that childhood is important to development, but believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation

Question 3

carl jung

Answer 3

used to worship freud and then dissented him. placed less emphasis on social factors and agreed with Freud that the unconscious exerts a powerful influence.

Question 4

collective unconscious

Answer 4

conceptualized by carl jung - concept of a shared, inherited resevoir of memory traces from our species’ history. supposedly explained religious roots and cultural symbols.

Question 5

projective tests

Answer 5

a personality tests that tasks test takers to describe an ambiguos stimulus or tell a story about it.

Question 6

thematic apperception test (TAT)

Answer 6

introduced by henry murrary - a projective test in which a person expresses their inner feelings and interests by making up a story about ambigous scenes

Question 7

rorschach inkblot test

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the most widely used projective test - designed Hermann Rorshach. seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretation of 10 inkblots. valid, but not reliable.

Question 8

false consensus effect

Answer 8

the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors.

Question 9

terror-management theory

Answer 9

a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death.