PSY1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Rorschach Test, Graphology, Apperception
7 Aug 2018
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Individuals may not be honest when self-reporting (positivity effect) May only be familiar with someone in a professional setting. Assumptions: attitudes and motivations are beyond or hidden from conscious awareness. Individuals project their unconscious attitudes and motivations into ambiguous pictures or signs from which they can be revealed. Content is analysed for meaning rather than being based on presuppositions about meaning. Analysed based on time taken to respond, focus, and how responses relate. Analysed based on details of drawing: size, shape, facial features, clothing, background. May attribute pathology to individuals with poor drawing skill. A person is shown a still of a scene. They must construct a story based on the image: lead up, emotions of characters, what might happen afterwards. Analysis based upon organisation on page, movement style, use of distinct letter forms etc. Mostly self-report questions to be answered in a fixed way e. g. likert scale. More widely used and accepted than projective tests.
