PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach Test, Sigmund Exner
22 Oct 2020
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Projective test is an assessment device in which a set of standard stimuli - inkblots or drawings - ambiguous enough to allow variation in responses is presented to the individual. The assumption is that because the stimulus materials are unstructured, the clients responses will be determined primarily by unconscious processes and will reveal his or her attitudes, motivations, and modes of behaviour. Notion is referred to as the projective hypothesis: the notion that highly unstructured stimuli, as in the rorschach inkblot test, are necessary to bypass defences in order to reveal unconscious motives and con icts. Shown 10 inkblots, one at a time and asked to tell what gured seen in them. Hal are in bw/grey, two have red splotches and 3 are in pastel colours. Perosn is shown a series of black and white pictures one by one and asked to tell a story related to each.
