PROJECTIVE TESTS

Projective Tests Used to assess personality Provides ambiguous stimuli and the subject unconsciously projects his or her motives/feelings/desires into the ambiguous stimuli. Seen as one of the easiest ways to assess the unconscious.

Rorshach Inkblot Test Most widely used projective test A set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach Used to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots www.inkblottest.com

Thematic Apperception Test People express their inner motives through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. Subject shown a black and white ambiguous scene on a card – then told to tell a story about the picture including -description of pictured event, preceding action, thoughts and feelings of those pictured, and outcome of the story. Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Culture and background need to be considered by administrators of the TAT when evaluating results.

Thematic Apperception Test INTERPRETATION: Examiners usually focus analysis on one of the following: Content Usually reveals attitudes, fantasies, wishes, inner conflicts and view of the world Feeling or Tone of the Story Usually reveals feelings, assumptions about the world and underlying attitude of optimism or pessimism Behaviors apart from the responses Looks at subject verbal & non-verbal responses (blushing, fidgeting, “I’m not good at this” etc)