1. Projective Personality Tests

2. Projective Test Have no clearly defined answers
Use an open-ended format
Present ambiguous stimuli and ask test taker to interpret what they see
- The interpretation is thought to reveal information about their personality

3. Two most common projective personality tests are the
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

4. Rorschach Inkblot Test
Created by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921
Uses 10 official inkblots
5 black and white
2 black and red and white
3 multicolored

5. Rorschach Inkblot
Person is shown card with inkblot and asked what they think it could be
Responses to cards are interpreted according to the following factors:
Location  responding to whole card or part of card?
Determinants  responding to particular shaping, coloring, textures
Content  the precise object that the test-taker is seeing
Form  is the answer based on the actual shape of the blot, or are they seeing a different form entirely?

11. Thematic Apperception Test
Created in the 1930’s by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray
Involves a picture interpretation technique
Test takers are shown ambiguous pictures and asked to create a story for the picture

12. TAT Subject’s story may include: What has led up to the event shown
What is happening at the moment
What the characters are feeling and thinking
What the outcome of the story was

13. TAT
Each story is carefully analyzed to uncover the test takers unconscious mind, including any
Repressed aspects of personality
Motives and needs for achievement
Power and intimacy
Problem solving abilities