Question

Which of the following is not the Psychoanalytic Method of personality measurement?
1. Free association
2. Interview
3. Word assocation
4. Dream analysis

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Interview

Psychoanalytic Approach-

• The father of psychoanalytic approach Sigmund Freud focused on unconscious libidinal energy in describing the present state of the individual.
• He studied the mind in terms of hierarchical arrangements of experiences in the form of different layers of consciousness (e.g. conscious, preconscious, and unconscious).
• Freud explored the nature and quality of the unconscious through
  • analysis of dreams
  • slips of the tongue
  • word association
  • Free association
  • neuroses
  • psychoses
  • work of art
  • rituals.
• He assumed that majority of human behaviors are triggered by unconscious motivation.
• Thus to understand the present human behaviour the analysis of unconscious mental contents is considered most important.

Thus from above-mentioned points, it is clear that the interview is not a Psychoanalytic Method of personality measurement.