PROJECTIVE TESTS Projective Tests Used to assess personality

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)