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| Purpose of Defense Mechanisms |
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| help the ego reduce anxiety created by the conflicting demands of id, superego, and external reality. |
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| Defense Mechanisms operate... |
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| unconciously. they are controlled by the ego, but we are unaware of their operation |
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| What makes defense mechanisms capable of reducing anxiety? |
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| they distort inner or outer reality. |
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| Four components of the Type A behavior pattern |
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1. Insecurity of Status
2. Hyperaggressiveness
3. Free-floating hostility
4. Sense of time urgency (hurry sickness) |
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| Types of questions to diagnose Type A |
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| habits of working, talking, eating, reading, and thinking. |
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| Type A personality has a greater risk of... |
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| Coronary Disease and Heart Attack |
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| a procedure for studying changes in the self-concept, a key element in Rogers's self-theory. |
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| the perceptions that individuals have about the source of things that happen to them. |
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a personal judgment of "how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations"
explains why correct knowledge does not necessarily predict efficient action. |
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| any relatively enduring way in which one individual differs from another |
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| the assumption that personal interpretations of ambiguous stimuli must necessarily reflect the unconscious needs, motives, and conflicts of the examinee |
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| First projective technique |
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| Galton's word association test |
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| Steps in administering the Rorschach |
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1. examiner sits beside the examinee to minimize body language communication
2. Free association phase- "What might this be?"
3. Inquiry phase- examiner asks questions to clarify the exact blot location of each percept and to determine which aspects of the blot, such as the form or color, played a part in the creation of the response. |
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like the Rorschach
the examinee is limited to one response per card, but views a series of 45 cards.
Each response is followed with a very simple twofold question: "Where was the percept represented in the blot?" and "What about the blot suggested the percept?" |
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| Administering the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) |
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The examiner requests the examinee to make up a dramatic story for each picture, telling what led up to the current scene, what is happening at the moment, how the characters are thinking and feeling, and what the outcome will be.
The examiner writes down the story verbatim for later scoring and analysis. |
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| Interpretation of the HTP (House-Tree-Person Test) |
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three general assumptions:
1. the House drawing mirrors the examinee's home life and intrafamilial relationships
2. the Tree drawing reflects the manner in which the examinee experiences the environment
3. the Person drawing echoes the examinee's interpersonal relationships |
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| Edwards Personal Preference Scale (EPPS) |
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-210 pairs of statements in which items from each of the 15 scales are paired with items from the other 14.
-uses a forced-choice format |
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| the transitory feelings of fear or worry that most of us experience on occasion |
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| the relatively stable tendency of an individual to respond anxiously to a stressful predicament |
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| Eysenck Personality Questionnaire |
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| measures the major dimensions of normal and abnormal personality |
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| test items are assigned to a particular scale if, and only if, they discriminate between a well-defined criterion group and a relevant control group |
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| Four different validity scales of the MMPI |
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1. Cannot Say- the total number of items omitted or double-marked in completion of the answer sheet
2. L scale- 15 items all scored in the false direction.
3. F scale- 60 items answered by normal subjects in the scored direction no more than 10% of the time.
4. K scale- designed to help detect a subtle form of defensiveness |
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| the application of the methods and findings of experimental psychology to the modification of maladaptive behavior |
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| Beck's view of depression |
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| Beck regards depression as primarily a cognitive disorder characterized by the negative cognitive triad; a pessimestic view of the world, a pessimistic self-concept, and a pessimistic view of the future |
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| Personality Research Form (PRF) |
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-no item overlap
-desirable feature is its readability- only requires a fifth or sixth grade reading level |
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-forced-choice, self-report inventory that attempts to classify persons according to an adaptation of Jung's personality types
-four theoretically independent dimensions: Extraversion-Intraversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, Judging-Perceptive. |
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| Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) |
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-widely used forced-choice test of personality that is currently available in five separate forms
-Each form consists of declarative stems that require the examinee to respond to a specific situation by choosing from among two or three forced-choice options |
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| California Psychological Inventory (CPI) |
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-consists of 462 true-false items including nearly 200 items directly from the MMPI
-yields scores on 20 scales
-validity scales are: Sense of well-being,Good impressions, and Community |
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| present method for scoring/interpreting the Rorschach |
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Once the entire protocol has been coded, the examiner can computer a number of summary scores that form the primary basis for hypothesizing about the personality of the examinee.
the formal scoring is insufficient for some purposes such as the diagnosis of schizophrenia. |
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| Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) |
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suitable for children 5-19
consists of 275 true-false statements that are completedby a parent
provides a comprehensive, multiview perspective on children's emotional and behavioral adjustment in the home, school, and community. |
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