Projective methods

Question 1

Indirect method of personality assessment

Answer 1

Projective method

Question 2

Inkblots

Answer 2

• Rorschach -widely used for forensic work and generally accepted by courts
• The Holtzman

Question 3

Pictures

Answer 3

• TAT -originally designed as an aid to eliciting fantasy material from patients in psychoanalysis
• Hand test -ask what the hand is doing
• Rozenweig Picture-Frustration study
• Apperceptive personality test-address criticisms of the TAT

Question 4

Words

Answer 4

• Word association -first attempt was Galton
• Sentence completion
• Washington university sentence completion -based on ego development
• Rotter incomplete sentences blank- expresses real feelings

Question 5

Sounds

Answer 5

• auditory inkblots
• verbal summator- device that would act as a stimuls for the person to verbalize certain unconscious material (skinner)
• Auditory apperception test- create story based on 3 sounds played

Question 6

Figure drawings

Answer 6

• source of info about intelligence, neurological intactness, visual-motor coordination, cognitive development, learning disabilities
• Draw-a-Person test (DAP) -draw opposite sex
• House-Tree-Person
• Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
• Color Inkblot Therapeutic storytelling -for Japanese clients