Gittinger Seminar Notes - Lecture 17

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Lecture 17 - Picture Arrangement

• Social (A/U) variable probably the most important on in getting to a dynamic interpretation of the whole pattern. 221
• Picture Arrangement less obviously connected to the personality traits than other tests. 221
• PA to some extent has element of seeing humor. 222
• PA like BD in that high PA just puts them together and gets meaning later. Low PA looks for meaning first. 223
• In PA, some people make their own imaginative story. 224
• Low PA may have imaginative solution, but ignore cues. 224
• Low PA may think they see a story but wrong. 224
• High PA indicates doing what subject is "supposed to do" quickly, not understanding. 225
• High PA person suggestible to social cues but may not have much understanding of the behavior he can do. 225
• Role Adaptive learns roles quickly, but may not be aware of the meaning of the role. 225
• Low PA not as suggestible or responsive, tries to get meaning before responding. 225 226
• U negativistic - does not respond to external direction and there is something else he would rather do. 226
• E and U responsive to external events, but resistant to responding quickly or effectively. 226
• I and U stubbornly refuses to change initial response state (I). 227
• E and U stubbornly continues to be E. 227
• I and U stubbornly continues to be I. 227
• E and I under pressure not be so E or so I. 227
• Environment can be punishing to U. 227
• U has early life experience with hostility because people around them are impatient that they don't modify their behavior. 228
• A behaves appropriately and doing what he is supposed to do and doing it effectively. 228
• IA can mask I tendencies. 228
• IA does things he is supposed to do but not under pressure to learn why. 228
• EA acts E but without engendering impatience or hostility. 229
• EA not under pressure to understand behavior. 229
• U can refuse to respond - negativistic. 229
• U put under pressure to learn adaptable social role. 229
• U becomes dependent on others to teach social roles. 229
• U when learns roles, holds onto the fact that learned it the right way. 229
• I and U can withdraw (schizophrenic direction) or learn some role related external behavior. 230
• Thus I and U "as good as his teachers." 230
• IU bound in and stereotyped in relation to environment grows up in. 231
• EU in military family likely at age 20 reacted against it and moved to an intellectual orientation. 231
• IU in military family likely at age 20 to be at West Point. 231
• EU reaction against early teachers due to hostility. 232
• E and U often daydreams - an E way to be passive - thinks of many things he would like to be doing, but does not do them. 233
• In Western culture, E often does not get into trouble if reads / do well in school as a way to control E responsiveness. 233
• Early EU wants others to play with them on their terms - this gets peer rejection. 234
• EU can gain acceptance from teachers by doing well intellectually. 234
• EU often moves in intellectual direction different from parent(s). 235
• IU "as good as his teachers", EU finds some other kind of thing. 235 236
• Examples living in Jewish community of IU and EU mirroring and accepting environment. 236
• Example of EU in local Oklahoma University goes to Princeton and comes back with role Uniform Princeton role. 236 237
• IU in local Oklahoma University stays there. 237
• IU example Kennedy family - set a role and learn it. 237
• EU in IU environment: EU will be the black sheep. 238
• EU in IU lower east side Jewish family becomes uptown lawyer. EU in Kennedy family becomes misfit. 238
• Oklahoma redneck farmer child is upwardly mobile but retains "I'm an Oklahoma country boy" role - this is A. 238
• EU has element of hostility against early role. 238 239
• Uc+ learns a role often unlike anything in early background - very resistant to prying out early life. 239
• Sam Ervin an A. 239
• Sam Ervin (EA) can be comfortable with Texas ranchers and NC rednecks and Harvard law students. 240
• Lyndon Johnson (EU) difficult fitting in any environment his uniform role not acceptable. 240
• EU doctor can be effective - never having to be anything else. 240
• EU doctor may be loved by patients and hated by wife and children. 241
• Doctor role not easy but learnable. 241
• ERU effective doctor. 241
• Pilots IRU. 242
• IRU pilots do check lists etc. well. 242
• Risk is IRU pilots who cannot adapt in emergency. 242 243