Introduction to Rorscach PP #2 Flashcards
Projective Tests Traditionally
Projective traditionally refers to:
- Ambiguous stimulus or activity
- Test-taker generates a response with minimal external guidance.
- In responding the test-taker projects or puts forward elements of her personality.
- Interpretation requires subjectivity.
What is Projection?
Things that aren’t there.
- Movement probably is a bit projective because blow does not move.
- Embellishment leaves the field too.
- Minus responses may be projections.
- Special scores.
Projective vs. Perfromace-Based
Performance-based tests are nomothetic. One’s performance can be scored into meaningful categories that can be compared to norms, resulting in reliable and valid implications that are totally separate from projective analysis.
Performance-Based Measures
Value of different method from self-report tests.
The Value of the Rorschach
A standardized behavioral experiment that provides a sample of how one:
- filters and organizes information
- applies meaning to stimuli and situations
- how conventionally they perceive
- how logically they think and communicate
- how they handle inconsistencies, contradictions, and ambiguity.
Do Rorscach results correlate highly with self report measures?
- They do not.
Explicit vs. Implicit
- Self-report measures tend to tap explicit aspects of a person.
- Performance-based measures tend to tap implicit or underlying aspects of a person.
- Similar to intelligence–self-report likely very different from WAIS-IV results.
“Critical Distal Bits”
- Most potent properties of the field.
- Create the parameters that limit the range of possible objects.
- Distal features of the inkblots are not as precise and discrete as usual.
- BUT each contains distinctive features that could be identified as similar to objects in memory traces.
Thus, the blots fall far short of being ambiguous.
The critical bits that limit the array of possible translations allow to rapid formation of potential answers.
The Big Picture
- Administation
- Scoring
- Interpretation
- Integration
- Perspective
Performance Based Tests
- Rorscach
- Wartegg Drawing Completion Test
- Adult Attachment Projective
- Thurston-Cradock Test of Shame
Projective Tests
- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- Roberts Apperception Test
- Tell Me a Story (TMAS)
- House-Tree-Person Drawings (HTP)
- Sentence Completion Tests
What side of the hemisphere are highly activated by the Rorschach (performance based tests)?
Highly activating of the right hemisphere and of subcortical areas involved in emotional activation and regulation.
What is Rorscach good at picking up on?
Effects of trauma and early insecure attachment experiences, and in showing functioning when clients are emotionally aroused.
- Irreplaceable in gaining access to the secrets hidden in the right hemisphere and limbic areas. Without this information, the client remains victim of unseen influences.
