People who aren’t for the Rorschach test are extremely incorrect. These people should not have a voice. Source A is right for saying that Rorschach tests are accurate and correct. Source B states that when people see the shapes that relate to their personal life. For an example, an alien will obviously see UFOs because that is their method of transportation. People have to think about how long this test has been around, It's been around for over 50 years. A test that didn’t work wouldn’t still be around. Despite the fact that people are disapproving of the Rorschach test; it actually does show a person’s persona.…
“The Cavemen in the Hedges” is a short story that contains many underlying themes of psychoanalytical theory. Themes of the “id,” a selfish, primal, version of one’s self concerned only with physical desires; the “superego,” part of a person’s psyche that is only worried about ideals and morals; and the “ego,” the rational part of the brain that attempts to satisfy both the id and superego natures make up an immense proportion of the breakdown of this story. Repression and other psychological defense mechanisms are also very important in the analysis as well.…
Asch carried out an experiment in 1951 to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. Asch used a lab experiment, where 50 male students from a college in the USA participated in a ‘vision test’. Using a line judgement test, one of the more naïve participants was put in a room with 7 confederates. The confederates had agreed in advance what their responses would be involving the line task. The real participant didn’t know this, and was led to believe that the other 7 people were participants just like themselves. Each person in the room had to say clearly which comparison line was most alike the target line. The answer was made obvious. The real participant sat at the back of the room and gave their answer last. There were roughly 18 trials in total and the confederates gave the wrong answer on 12 trials. Asch was interested to see if the real participant would conform to the majority view, the experiment also had a controlled condition where there were no confederates. It was found that 32% of the participants who were placed in this situation conformed to the earlier incorrect responses. Over the 12 trials about 75% of participant’s conformed at least once and 25% never conformed. In the control group, with no pressure to conform, less than 1% of participants gave the wrong answer. It was therefore concluded that people either conform due to the fact that they want to fit in or because they believe that the group is better informed than they are. This study is criticised in that it is a biased sample as the participants were all male, all belonged to the same college and were all the same age. With this in mind and the fact that the sample size was small suggests that the data collected isn’t representative of the target population, as it cannot be generalised to female groups for example. Another issue is that the experiment is artificial meaning that it lacks or has very low ecological validity and…
Seminar Teaching Assistants Name Anne Marie Levy Thomas Sasso Jasmine Mahdy Melissa Bell Chris Upton Dan van der Werf Jeff Franson Julia Wreford Course overview Description: The overall theme of this course is the examination of human behaviour and mental processes using a scientific approach. It will survey some of the major areas of the field such as neuroscience, sensation and perception, learning, cognition, motivation, human development, personality, psychopathology, and social psychology. Lectures: Seminars: Tuesdays & Thursdays 16:30-17:20, Rozanski Hall (ROZH) 104 As assigned on your timetable. • You must attend the seminar for which you are registered, unless you made arrangements with your TA to attend another one of his/her seminars. • PSYC*1000*XXXX, where XXXX is your seminar section number Seminar Sections 0464, 0465, 0479, 0480 0461, 0467 0463, 0470 0471, 0478 0466, 0474 0472, 0473 0462, 0468 0469 E-mail a.levy@psy.uoguelph.ca t.sasso@psy.uoguelph.ca j.mahdy@psy.uoguelph.ca mbell01@uoguelph.ca c.upton@psy.uoguelph.ca d.vanderwerf@psy.uoguelph.ca j.franson@psy.uoguelph.ca j.wreford@psy.uoguelph.ca…
(Wimmer and Perner, 1983) carried out a classic psychological study. The experiment involved the use of two dolls, one called Sally and the other called Anne. In the experiment, Sally had a basket and a marble, while Anne had a box. Sally put the marble in the basket and left the room, during this time Anne placed the marble in the box. Sally returned and wanted her marble.…
After reading Chapter 12 of your text describe the difference between values and attitudes. What are the factors that influence values and attitudes in children? In what ways are values and attitudes embedded in a child…
Look at the interactions between the individuals in the following photos and interpret what you think is being expressed through nonverbal communication. Please describe the nonverbal cues that lead you to these interpretations.…
Lilenfield et al (2000) (p121) question the relevance of the majority of Rorschach indexes to outcomes of interest- in other words the test itself may not be particularly relevant to everyday life and a diversity of scoring schemes has limited their applicability and this could also account for poor inter- judge reliability, however Groth-Marant (2009) suggest the appeal of one projective test (the Rorschach) could be its’ non-technical nature (decoding responses to ambiguous shapes), its’ ability to by-pass conscious resistance, resistance to faking and ease of administration. That said, Groth-Marant (2009) note about the tests’ psychometric properties – overall demonstrated reliabilities between .80 and .85 (Parker, 1983 as cited in Groth-Marant, 2009), median inter-scorer correlations of .82 to .97 depending on data set used, and that recent meta-analyses support its’ validity – for example, meta-analyses by Atkinson, Quarington, Alp and Cyr (1986), Parker (1983), Parker, Hanson and Hunsley (1988) and Weiner (1986) indicated validity ranging from .4 to .5. Ultimately, the contribution of psychodynamic theory may be not what it brings to personality assessment as a mainstream (diagnostic) tool but as an alternative that through psychoanalysis works beyond question ( Galatzer-Levy, Bacharach, Skolnikoff, & Waldron,…
While we were waiting to go on the walk, Ms. Reta asked the children what they would what to see on their nature walk. . Jaelee sat in front of the board, quietly and payed attention. She also participated naming of some things she would like to see on the nature walk, she said she would like to see a tree, a flower, and a butterfly. While we were on our walk Jaelee would point out the things that she wanted to see. She pointed to the trees and said “there is a tree”. She also noticed the apples on the tree and said that it was an apple tree. Jaelee had also noticed how far we walked from her…
Flanagan, R. (2006). The Rorschach: A comprehensive System. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 24, 166-171. doi:1177/0734282905285790…
Antigone is a tragic play wrote by Sophocles about the conflicts between family members. Oedipus the king of Thebes and his wife both killed themselves due to a mistake that they made in the past. After Oedipus died his two son Polyneices and Eteocles killed each other to see who will be the next king. Both die and Creon, Oedipus’s brother in law, is the next in line to became king. The first law that Creon made since he became king is no one is allow to bury Polyneices body because he is a traitor to Thebes. Anyone who buries Polyneices will die. This law has everyone involved in suffered greatly. Creon has suffered enough for his actions and the Thebens people should not punish him any further.…
In the 1950's, a series of experiments were performed by psychologist Solomon Asch on the effects peer pressure can have on someone that would otherwise be stalwart in their judgment. In the experiment, a group of young men were shown a line with three other lines of various lengths next to it, and asked to determine which of three lines matched the length of the first line. There was, however, a catch: all but one of the men were confederates (or associates) of the study. The last man was ignorant of this fact and was the actual subject of the experiment. Initially, the men would all answer correctly to prevent rising suspicion in the subject. After one or two correct answers, the other men would then start answering unanimously wrong. Under opposing group consensus, it was observed that the subject would often ignore their own perception of the line in favor of the group's opinion.…
5.|Students who were told that a young woman had been instructed to act in a very unfriendly way for the purposes of the experiment concluded that her behavior:|…
These two scientists proved their affirmations by experiments and, maybe, I, as a result, would believe them; however, there is another group of scientists who states that apes are capable of meaningfully relating words. This group of scientists is…
For psychology to have any validity as a science, research must show there is a common way to think, react, and feel amongst humans; uniform mental processes. So far, research has shown that one can study the behaviors of a small group and compare them to a larger population; however, some people’s thought processes might not fall along these lines of normal. Likewise, some thought processes are considered abnormal in human thinking.…