Date: 1 pt Copy Question: 1 pt Answer in 3-5 lines: 3 pts Do you feel others around you know “the real you?” Why or why not? PSYCHWRITE:
*Listen *Ask Open- ended Questions *Repeat *Look for patterns DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE BY NUMBER AT YOUR TABLE
PERSON #1
PERSON #2
PERSON #3
PERSON #4
Myth #10 PEOPLE’S RESPONSES TO INKBLOTS OR HANDWRITING TESTS TELL US A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITIES
Frequent media portrayals of or reference to Rorschach Inkblot Test Inkblot Inkblot Crime show portrayals of graphology implies common use. Exaggeration of a kernel of truth: QDE (questioned document examinee) used by historians, collectors, and courts to determine the authenticity or origins of handwriting. Graphology Graphology No evidence despite many attempts to authenticate the use of these types of tests. So where do we go from here? WHERE DOES THIS MYTH ORIGINATE?
WHO ARE YOU? Why are most of your responses focuses on specific traits? Why didn’t you focus on the environments that taught you to be who you are? Why didn’t you focus on unconscious conflicts left over from childhood? Why didn’t you focus on your unique desire to discover all of the potential you have to offer? How well do these descriptions tell us about HOW and WHY the person became who he or she is?
EXPLAINING WHO YOU ARE Psychoanalytic theory Humanistic theory Social- Cognitive theory
Personality PSYCHANALYTIC THEORY
FREUD…THE GRAND POOH BAH Austrian neurologist (1856 – 1939) A totally original, revolutionary, thinker No one before him discussed the unconscious mind. Americans tend to be more Freudian than they would like to admit! Do you think dreams have symbolic meaning? Do you believe you have an unconscious mind that houses information that you are unaware of? Do you think that your motives for doing things are sometimes hidden?
THE MIND: 3 DIVISIONS
PERSONALITY STRUCTURE Personality arises from trying to RESOLVE CONFLICT. ID: “Pleasure principle” Satisfy basic drives Immediate gratification “I want…” SUPEREGO: Your conscience Based on how we ought to behave Represents societies morals & values “I should…”
PERSONALITY STRUCTURE EGO: “Reality principle” Executive of the personality (decides on our actions) Gratify needs of ID & SUPEREGO in REALISTIC ways
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PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES Born as an “ID” EGO develops to control ID during Anal stage SUPEREGO is the result of resolving the Oedipus/Electra Complex (take on gender AND values of same sex parent)
DEFENSE MECHANISMS EGO protects itself against anxiety by distorting reality. KEEPS BALANCE (between the ID & the SUPEREGO) Repression (push anxiety producing thoughts to unconscious) Regression (act in ways that reflect a younger age) Reaction formation (act opposite to true feelings) Projection (believe others harbor your feelings) Sublimation (direct impulses into constructive avenues) Rationalization (make excuses) Displacement (direct impulses onto less threatening) Denial (ignore the true nature of a threat) Assignment
DEFENSE MECHANISMS The ego has a pretty important job…and that is to protect you from threatening thoughts/anxiety in our unconscious by distorting reality. One way it protects us is through defense mechanisms. You are usually unaware that they are even occurring but keep balance between ID and SUPEREGO. (There are 8, are you ready?)
SCENARIO Quarterback of the high school football team, Brandon, is dating Jasmine. Jasmine dumps Brandon and starts dating Drew, president of the chess club. Drew Brandon Jasmine
1. REPRESSION Pushing thoughts into our unconscious. When asked about Jasmine, Brandon may say “Who?, I have not thought about her for awhile.” Why don’t we remember our Oedipus and Electra complexes?
2. REGRESSION Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior, like acting in ways that reflect a younger age. Brandon begins to sleep with his favorite childhood stiffed animal, Boogylicious.
3. REACTION FORMATION Expressing the opposite of how one truly feels. Cootie stage in Freud’s Latent Development. Brandon claims he hates Jasmine.
4. PROJECTION Believing that others harbor your feelings. Brandon insists that Jasmine still cares for him.
5. RATIONALIZATION Making excuses. Brandon thinks he will find a better girlfriend. “Jasmine was not all that anyway!” I really did want to go to ……..anyway, it was too ……
6. DISPLACEMENT Redirecting one’s feelings toward another person or object. Often displaced on less threatening things. Brandon may take his anger on another kid by bullying.
7. SUBLIMATION Channeling one’s frustration toward a different goal. Sometimes a healthy defense mechanism. Brandon starts to learn how to play the guitar and writing songs (or maybe starts to body build).
8. DENIAL Not accepting the ego-threatening truth. Brandon may act like he is still together with Jasmine. He may hang out by her locker and plan dates with her. Case Study Assignment
DEFENSE MECHANISMS EGO protects itself against anxiety by distorting reality. KEEPS BALANCE (between the ID & the SUPEREGO) Repression (push anxiety producing thoughts to unconscious) Regression (act in ways that reflect a younger age) Reaction formation (act opposite to true feelings) Projection (believe others harbor your feelings) Sublimation (direct impulses into constructive avenues) Rationalization (make excuses) Displacement (direct impulses onto less threatening) Denial (ignore the true nature of a threat) Assignment
Your ex-spouse, who cheated on you, writes a best-selling nonfiction book arguing that human beings are not naturally monogamous and have an instinctive need for variety.
Your psychology teacher, who smokes a pack of cigarettes every day, “forgets” to list nicotine on a handout you receive in class that lists addictive substances and drugs of abuse.
You are in love with your best friend’s new flame. The friendship is an old one and very valuable to you. You tell everybody that your friend’s new love interest is a terrible human being and you don’t understand the attraction at all.
Your boss yells at you. You come home and yell at your spouse. Your spouse yells at your child. Your child goes out to the yard and yells at the dog.