PSYC37H3 Chapter 14: Chapter 14
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projective personality tests such as the rorschach are perhaps the most controversial and most misunderstood psychological tests. It was found that five projective techniques (two of which were rorschach and the tat) were among the 10 testing instruments most frequently used in clinical settings. The rorschach is used extensively by psychologists and widely taught in doctoral training programs for clinical psychologists. projective hypothesis proposes that when people attempt to understand an ambiguous or vague stimulus, their interpretation of that stimulus reflects their needs, feelings, experiences, prior conditioning, thought processes, and so forth. although what the subject finally sees in a stimulus is assumed to be a reflection of personal qualities or characteristics, some responses may be more revealing than others. examiners can never draw absolute, definite conclusions from any single response to an ambiguous stimulus. They can only hypothesize what a test response means.