- Developed by Freud based on three principles

1. psychic determinism (no control over life)
2. Symbolic meaning (everything we do has a symbolism)
3. Unconcious motivation (our motives for doing things are unknown to us)

Openness to Experience

Conccientiousness

Extraversion

Agreeable

Neuroticism

Self-actualization: drive to develop our inate potential to the fullest possible extent

• Carl Rogers
• personalities consist of three major components

1. the organism: genetic blueprint
2. the self: set of beliefs about who we are
3. conditions of worth: expectations we place on ourselves for appropriate and inappropriate behaviour

• self-actualized people tend to be: creative, spontaneous and accepting of themselves and others

Projective tests: tests consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examinees must interpret or make sense of

• used inkblots, drawings of social situations, or incomplete sentences.
• the examinee must make sense of or interpret

projective test requiring examinees to tell a story in response to ambiguous pictures

• developed by Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan

• draw a person any way you wish
• large eyes reflect suspiciousness
• large genetalia reflect concerns about sexuality