PSY 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Takers, Psych, Freudian Slip
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Projective tests: kids sometimes play a game of explaining what they see as clouds appear in the sky. One child may see a ship on the ocean, another a lion and yet another a famous person"s face. There are of course no actual pictures in the clouds. The reason, from a freudian viewpoint, is that these responses come from the minds of the children themselves and represent what they see but may not explain normally. Descriptions of what we find in abstract objects such as clouds represent a different way to get to unconscious content. Projective experiments provide test takers with ambiguous stimuli and ask them to respond with a narrative, object recognition, or maybe a drawing. There are no right or wrong responses, much as with the cloud formations. Rather, the answers are individual, and can suggest what is happening in the unconscious. Some of the psychologists used the diff erent projective tests.
