Projectives

Question 1

What do the house, tree and person represent in the HTP drawing task?

Answer 1

House: Thought of a self-portrait
Tree: Represents intrapersonal relationship
Person: Represents interpersonal relationships

Question 2

Rorschach: Scoring

Answer 2

Area of inkblot

• Whole
• Common detail
• Unusual detail
• Space (white space)

Developmental quality: degree of integration

• Synthesized
• Ordinary
• Vague

Determinants: specific properties described
Form 
Movement
Chromatic color
Achromatic color
Shading-texture
Shading-dimension
Shading-diffuse
Form dimension
Pairs and reflections

Question 3

Rorschach: Interpretation

Answer 3

Structural summary for personality conceptualizing
8 clusters:
Control and Stress Tolerance
Situation
Affective Features
Self-Perception
Information Processing
Mediation
Ideation
Interpersonal perception

Question 4

TAT History

Answer 4

Murray’s Theory: Interactional “Personology”
Needs, Attitudes, and Values
External, Environmental Forces (press)
NEEDS + PRESS = THEMA
Thema = Patterns described in TAT

Question 5

TAT Administration

Answer 5

Four requirements:

1. Current Situation
2. Thoughts and Feelings of Characters
3. Preceding Event
4. Outcome

Question 6

TAT vs. Rorschach

Answer 6

TAT: Structured stimuli (photographs)
Rorschach: Ambiguous stimuli (ink blots)

TAT requires organized/ complex responses
Rorschach can be scored with less verbosity

TAT assesses “here and now” of life
Rorschach: examines underlying structure