1. The Psychoanalytic Perspective Unconscious & Personality
Adler
Is this Legit?
Horney
Neo-Freudians
Jung
The Psychoanalytic Perspective
(Mod 44)
We are here
Personality Tests
Freud
Unconscious & Personality
Projective Tests
Defense Mechanisms
Structure
Rorschach
Inkblot
TAT
Development

2. How do we assess the unconscious?
We can use hypnosis or free association.
But more often we use projective tests.
-Ambiguous stimuli, asking questions about it
- Two widely-used types

3. 1. TAT Test Thematic Apperception Test
Giving the subject a picture that is ambiguous, then ask them what is occurring.
Their answers reveal the manifest content.
They can then discover the Latent Content.

4. TAT

8. 2. Rorschach Inkblot Test
The most widely used projective test
-A set of ten inkblots designed to identify people’s feelings when they are asked to interpret what they see in the inkblots.

9. Rorschach Inkblot Test

10. Rorschach Inkblot Test

11. Rorschach Inkblot Test

12. Rorschach Inkblot Test

13. Rorschach Inkblot Test

14. Rorschach Inkblot Test

15. Rorschach Inkblot Test

17. Armageddon Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INLo0Zr0_lA

18. Problems? Brainstorm some potential problems with projective tests
No universal scoring; completely up to psychologist (open to bias/discrimination)
Poor predictive ability for future behavior
Remember 2 basic criteria for a good test
Reliability & Validity

19. Projective Tests: Criticisms
Critics argue that projective tests lack both reliability (consistency of results) and validity (predicting what it is supposed to).
When evaluating the same patient, even trained raters come up with different interpretations (reliability).
2. Projective tests may misdiagnose a normal individual as pathological (validity).