PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rorschach Test, Hermann Rorschach, Psychoanalysis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CC3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Those that do not assume that you consciously have info on your urges. Based on the psychodynamic perspective, it is the unconscious factors that determines your behaviour. Projection of unconscious factors onto ambiguous stimulus. Tests involve minimal structure, minimal restriction on responses. Standardized administration and scoring: but interpretation of scores depends on clinical judgment. A lot of projective tests around: house tree person etc. Developed in the early 1921 by swiss psychoanalyst hermann rorschach. Drop ink on paper, folded them up to provide a symmetrical inkblot. Rorschach inkblot test: scoring they see it or not. Mostly interested in what the person sees in the blot this is not true. What you see is third on the list of what you are interested in. It is not the content that is the most important is how you see it. How good is it at predicting mental disorder that might render them not responsible for a criminal act.