PY0401 Lab Skills

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PY0401 Lab Skills
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Current work

• Hope discussion is going ok
• Thread on discussion board
• Wiki for giving some information, but not a
  reliable source
• Dont just use journals - try some books
  memory, cognitive psychology

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Next week

• Check on marks and attendance
• Bring reports, hand in confirmation etc.
• Need to have done 5 reports (first mark
  disregarded)
• Attended (including doing reading week work) with
  only 1 self registered absence
• Have invited 3rd years to do project on you for
  points.

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Projective techniques

• Going to use a projective technique today.
• Think about What are the pros cons
• Read into an abstract picture
• Rorschach
• deltabravo.
• wiki

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Thematic apperception test

• Realistic pictures
• Build a story about
• what has led up to the event shown
• what is happening at the moment
• what the character is feeling and thinking
• what the outcome of the story was

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Projective from cue sentence

• You will get a cue sentence
• E.g. after christmas mary decided to live a
  little more cheaply
• Write down the sentence, then begin your story
  bearing in mind you may want to describe
• what has led up to the event shown
• what is happening at the moment
• what the character is feeling and thinking
• what the outcome of the story was

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• You have got 15-20 minutes.
• Please work on your own imagine a clinical
  psychologist has given you this cue sentence so
  you will be on your own
• When you have finished cover your story and wait
  for the class to finish.

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Scoring on handout A score if any of the
following negative imagery appears at least once
in the story.

• Negative consequences because of the success
• Anticipation of negative consequences because of
  the success
• Negative affect because of the success
• Instrumental activity away from present or future
  success, including leaving the field for more
  traditional female work such as a housewife
• Any direct expression of conflict about success
• Denial of the situation described by the cues
• Bizarre, inappropriate, unrealistic, or
  nonadaptive responses to the situation described
  by the cue

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• Negative affect in concerns regarding affiliation
  socially rejected, losing friends, marriage
  forgone, loneliness, being secretive regarding
  success
• Negative affect not about affiliation doubting
  femininity, guilt with success
• Denial saying impossibleAnne is a CODE name
  for a non existant person created by a group of
  med students.Anne is happy she is on top, though
  tom is higher than she- though thats as it
  should be. Anne doesnt mind tom winning

denial
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Denial of effort

• It was luck that anne came out top of her med
  class because she didnt want to go to med school
  anyway
• She starts proclaiming here surprise and joy,
  her fellow classmates are so disgusted with her
  behaviour, that they jump on her in a body and
  beat her. She is maimed for life.

bizarre
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• Anne has a boyfriend Carl in the same class and
  they are quite serious. Anne met Carl at college
  and they started dating around their soph years
  in undergraduate school. Anne is rather upset
  and so is Carl. She wants him to be higher
  scholastically than she is. Anne will
  deliberately lower her academic standing the next
  term, while she does all she subtly can to help
  Carl. His grades come up and Anne soon drops out
  of med school. They marry and he goes on in
  school while she raises their family.

Negative affect
Conflict success
Negative consequence
Instrumental away from success
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Hand in score

• If have a great story will read out

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Murray produced a list of social motives

• Human emotions vs animal eg. Hunger, sex
  Abasement
• Achievement
• Affiliation
• Aggression
• Autonomy
• Deference
• Dominance
• Harmavoidance
• Nurturance
• Rejection
• Succorance
• Understanding
• Maslow also developed a theory of self
  actualisation,

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Achievement Motivation (NAch)

• Mclelland Atkinson focussed on entrepreneurship
• They developed instruments for measuring Need for
  Achievement, NAch
• Predicted that people would be motivated to do
  well
• this is not directly linked to reinforcement.
  i.e. intrinsic not based on external rewards

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Horner fear of success

• Horner has argued that females exhibit greater
  degrees of fear of success than males.
• A projective technique was used to measure Fear
  of Success.
• The manipulations
• 1.John tops in engineering
• 2 Anne tops in engineering
• 3 Anne tops in nursing
• The results

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• Anne is an acne faced bookworm. She runs to the
  bulletin board and finds shes at the top. As
  usual she smarts off. A chorus of groans is the
  rest of the classs reply. Anne was always
  praised for her initiative and study habits
  mainly because those were the only things one
  could praise her for. She studies 12 hours a
  day, and lives at home to save money. She rents
  her books. well it certainly paid off, All the
  Friday and Saturday nights with my books, who
  needs dates, fun Ill be the best woman
  doctor alive And yet, a twinge of sadness
  comes thru she wonders what she really has,
  But , as is her habit, she prompty erases that
  thought, and goes off reciting aloud the 231
  bones in her wrist