assessing personality: projective methods elena Čėsnaitė, psbd8-01
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Assessing Personality: Projective Methods
Elena Čėsnaitė, PSbd8-01
Contents
PersonalityPersonality testsProjective personality testsThematic Apperception Test (TAT)Rorschach testConclusion
Personality
Personality can be defined as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person.
Personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life.
Personality tests There are two major types of personality
tests. Projective tests assume personality as
primarily unconscious and assess an individual by how he or she responds to an ambiguous stimulus.
Objective tests assume personality as consciously accessible
and measured by self-report questionnaires.
Projective personality tests
The projective personality tests claim to measure your underlying personality traits, fears, anxieties and attitudes.
They are the most ambiguous in their structure, interpretations
and philosophy. Many employers use them to apply suitability or even reject
for some particular job.
Obscure series of cartoons, pictures, ink blots and incomplete sentences are used as projective techniques.
The proponents of projective personality tests believe that you ‘project’ to these ambiguous stimuli from your sub-consciousness.
Thematic Apperception Test(TAT)
TAT has been among the most widely used, researched, and taught projective psychological tests.
The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique.
The subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as he can.
Sometimes it is used in a psychiatricor psychological context to assess personality disorders, thought disorders.
The large number of research studies that have used the TAT have indicated that cultural, gender, and class issues must be taken into account.
Rorschach test Hermann Rorschach created
Rorschach inkblot test in 1921. Psychologists use this test to
examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
It has been employed to detect an underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describetheir thinking processes openly.
Method Ten official inkblots, each printed on
a separate white card. Five inkblots are of black ink, two are
of black and red ink and three are multicolored, on a white background.
The subject is asked to note where he sees what he originally saw and what makes it look like that.
As the subject is examining the inkblots, the psychologist writesdown everything the subject saysor does, no matter how trivial.
What do you see?
What is a bad response?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76UXSdUVuLk
Conclusion
Projective personality tests are widely used in assessing personality.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that there are also many differences between cultures and genders.
It is hard to determine abnormalities.
Thank you
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Thematic-
Apperception-Test.html
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