Unit 7C Test Part 3 - The Psychoanalytic Perspective

Projective Tests

A personality test with vague stimuli that are designed to trigger a demonstration of your inner dynamics

Types of Projective Tests

TAT, Rorschach Inkblot Test

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

People express their feelings and interests through the stories they tell based off of vague scenes

Rorschach Inkblot Test

A set of 10 inkblots that people interpret, which shows their inner feelings

What are psychology’s contradictions to Freud’s theories?

Development is lifelong, not fixed in childhood; infants can’t handle the emotional trauma he attributed to them, gender identity develops earlier than he thought

Terror Management Theory

Death-related anxiety, and anxiety comes from anything that reminds you of death