Introduction to Rorscach PP #1

Question 1

Rorscach Inkblot Method

Answer 1

• Serves a central role in personality assessment.
• Long history in psychology.
• Topic of an abundance of empirical research.
• Meets supreme Court Daubert validity standards and is admissible in court.

Question 2

Cognitive Perceptual Task

Answer 2

Rorscach more interested in perception of apperception than in content.
- He saw inkblots as a perceptual task and that characteristics of the individual showed through in the solutions applied.W

Question 3

Why the Rorschach?

Answer 3

The task provides a standardized, in vivo sample of perceptual and verbal problem-solving behavior.

• Inkblots were artistically created and enhances, carefully selected, and pilot tested.
• Stimuli are structured to provide multiple suggestive but incomplete or imperfect perceptual likenesses that form competing visual images.

Question 4

By 1960, 5 scoring systems

Answer 4

1. Samuel Beck (empirical)
2. Bruno Kloper (psychoanalytic)
3. Marguerite Hertz (empirical)
4. Zygmund Piatrowski (psychoanalytical)
5. David Rapaport, Merton Gill, Roy Schafer.

• Plus many used only content interpretations with no system at all.

Question 5

The comprehensive system

Answer 5

1974 John Exner published the first volume.
- A procedure that provokes many of the psychological operations of the subject.

Question 6

Resurgence of the Rorschach

Answer 6

• Standardized, empirically validated results brought credibility.
• Sufficient to meet criteria to be admissible in court.
• Revisions were been made as studies continued.

Question 7

Criticisms of the Rorschach

Answer 7

1. Lack of good norms
2. Overpathologizes
3. Low Inter-Rater Reliability
4. Lack of Relationship to Diagnosis
5. Lack of Incremental Validity
6. The Problem of R

Question 8

Low Inter-Rater Reliability

Answer 8

Better graduate training

Question 9

Lack of Relationship to Diagnoses

Answer 9

Rorschach not intended to diagnose.
- Must consider this indicator by indicator, not rule on the method as a whole.

• Replication is always an issue in research.
• Better training.

Question 10

Lack of Incremental Validity

Answer 10

Dependes on the assessment–add it to a protocol wisely.
- Better training.

Question 11

New Directions

Answer 11

Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erdberg, Erard

• Developed the RPAS-allows the system to be responsive to new research.

Question 12

RPAS Benefits

Answer 12

• Nomothetic guide.
• Emerged 15 years ago, built on Exner’s comprehensive system.
• System most solidly grounded in empirical evidence.
• System established to evolve with advancing research.
• User-friendly system.