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Transforming Our Lives through Self Reflection and Psychology
A psychology professor's collection of lessons fostering self-discovery through online activities, hands-on classroom experiences, engaging lectures, and effective discussion prompts.
Online Activity by Katie Hope Grobman
Personality in Our Story-Telling
Tell a story about some drawings I'll show you. Even if it's not so valid, experiencing a projective personality test can be fun. | Psychology Key Concepts: Projective Personality Test; Freud; Thematic Apperception Test; Rorshach Ink Blots
In this activity you’ll see a charcoal drawing and you’ll write a short story about it. That’s essentially it! And you’ll get a personality profile inspired by the Freudian Psychoanalytic perspective, including ideas from Sigmund Freud, Henry Murray (who invented the task), and many other Psychoanalysts who developed coding for the Thematic Apperception Task. You’ll also answer a variety of questions a therapist might be coding while observing you tell your stories, as well as some additional questions I use to try and continually improve the task. Instead of thinking of your results as genuinely revealing your nature, please think of this activity as a fun way to review concepts you learn about Freud and the historical ideas you learn about in Psychology classes.
🕰️ Estimating Time
🤸♀️ Activity (new tab): 20 to 40 minutes
📓 After-Activity Reading (below): draft materials available so far
🕰️ Estimating Time
🤸♀️ Activity (new tab): 20 to 40 minutes
📓 After-Activity Reading (below): draft materials available so far
A Picture Representing the Activity
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A quote at least kinda' related to the activity, creating a space before the reading about the activity
Rough Draft of Activity - What it Means
✨ You can try this activity anytime! I'm still writing a companion essay explaining your results. If you're already familiar with the psychology, you may still find your personalized results interesting on their own. If you teach, you're welcome to use the activity with your students and interpret results together. I originally created these activities for my own Psychology classes, and I'm gradually expanding them with essays as time allows. Rather than wait until everything is finished, I'd rather share each piece as it's ready. Thank you for your patience while this little corner of the project continues to grow. 💛
Additional Information
Uneasy Feelings about Your Results?
Please remember your results with any activity are not who you are. Your results are a 'snapshot' of a moment when you did an activity. It's just one measure, a single thread, of the many strands of who you are. Any result is a guess with statistical error. And it's possible the measure is flawed in a way so it doesn't work for you. Please do not think of your results as definitive dogma. Instead they're a starting point for our self reflection. Please keep in mind too, self-reflection can feel uncomfortable. "Bad" feelings are not actually bad. They're information. So, even if your activity result is inaccurate and flawed, you might ask yourself what your feeling is trying to tell you? Trusted teachers, friends, and therapists can be helpful. I wrote an essay elaborating with concrete examples how we can appreciate uneasy feelings about our activity results.
Scholarly Information?
You're welcome to use Copernican Revolution activities and essays for your thesis and studies. Having information about scholarly aspects like psychometric data, activity design details, and norm calculations may help. The primary focus of my essays is connecting educated laypersons with psychology. To help people like you, with advanced academic interests, I add an appendix with each activity.
Please remember your results with any activity are not who you are. Your results are a 'snapshot' of a moment when you did an activity. It's just one measure, a single thread, of the many strands of who you are. Any result is a guess with statistical error. And it's possible the measure is flawed in a way so it doesn't work for you. Please do not think of your results as definitive dogma. Instead they're a starting point for our self reflection. Please keep in mind too, self-reflection can feel uncomfortable. "Bad" feelings are not actually bad. They're information. So, even if your activity result is inaccurate and flawed, you might ask yourself what your feeling is trying to tell you? Trusted teachers, friends, and therapists can be helpful. I wrote an essay elaborating with concrete examples how we can appreciate uneasy feelings about our activity results.
Scholarly Information?
You're welcome to use Copernican Revolution activities and essays for your thesis and studies. Having information about scholarly aspects like psychometric data, activity design details, and norm calculations may help. The primary focus of my essays is connecting educated laypersons with psychology. To help people like you, with advanced academic interests, I add an appendix with each activity.
Citation
Grobman, K. H. (2018). Essay/Activity Title. CopernicanRevolution.org
Citation date reflects activity creation; essays are continually improved.
Grobman, K. H. (2018). Essay/Activity Title. CopernicanRevolution.org
Citation date reflects activity creation; essays are continually improved.
