Quiz 4 Flashcards
What is ABS?
Abstract Representation: Assigned to responses in which the blot features are used to symbolize a particular abstract concept or idea
e.g., the black is depression
What does PER Mean?
Personal Knowledge Justification: Occurs when the respondent refers to personal knowledge or experience to justify or bolster a response
e.g., I’m seeing it that way because I have personally seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled, or otherwise had experience with it.
Cooperative Movement
COP: Coded for cooperative, positive, or pleasant interactions between two or more objects
e.g., “Two wolves working together to hunt the blue animal.”
Mutuality of Autonomy- Health
MAH: Coded when the respondent describes two autonomous entities in a reciprocally interactive activity
e.g., “Two People singing a duet.”
Mutuality of Autonomy-Pathology
MAP: Coded when an agent or object compromises the autonomy of another object or is destructive to it.
e.g., “A witch placing a spell on someone.”
Aggressive Movement
AGM: Coded for aggressive activity, either physical or mental, that is occurring in the response, including tension states.
Human, Animal, or inanimate movement must be present.
e.g., “an angry person.”
Aggressive Content
AGC: Coded for content commonly perceived as dangerous, harmful, injurious, malevolent, or predatory
Morbid
MOR: Coded for damaged objects or designated terms such as broken, dead, defective, deformed, destroyed, disabled, diseased, disfigured, or injured.
Oral Dependency Language
ODL: Coded to suggest images that convey themes of nurturance, needed support, oral activity, food and eating, birth and fragility.
Code “The red symbolizes love.”
ABS
Code “ It looks like a guitar, an electric guitar, my brother has one just like it
PER
“Two people Dancing Together.”
COP, MAH
“A crumpled up brown leaf”
MOR
“A very sad face”
MOR
“A smashed bug”
MOR, MAP
“A worn out pelt.”
MOR
“A crab; part of it’s body is missing.”
MOR
“Two people playing a game together.”
COP, MAH
“Bugs at a party, having a fun time together.”
COP, MAH
“A Monster sneaking up behind another creature to get him.”
AGC, AGM
“It’s a wasp, I can see the stinger.”
AGC
“He’s angry. Look at his eyes.”
AGM
“Armies in combat. Lots of guns.”
AGM, AGC
What are This/ That responses?
Responses where a test taker identifies a very specific, unique, or uncommon object in the inkblot, often not readily apparent to others.
e.g., “This looks like a tiny alien with a big head, hiding behind a rock, looking out at the world with one eye.”
Deviant Verbalizations
Coded when the respondent uses a mistaken or inappropriate word or phrase to communicate or to describe a response.
DV1: Intended meaning is relatively clear, word use is benign or at times, playful (WSumCog Weight: 1)
DV2: Incomprehensible or very difficult-to-understand word misuse that interferes with communication. (Think communication failure, and condensation of mutually exclusive elements)
(WSumCog Weight: 2)
“He’s all clowned up.”
DV1
“The outside lookers, the onlookers of the outside.”
DV2
Deviant Responses
DR1 and DR2: involve confused language, task distortions, loose associations to the blot, or rambling, circumstantial responses that drift from the task.
DR1: Typically contained, brief examples of inappropriate or task unrelated language. (WSumCog Weight: 3)
DR2: Markedly confusing communication or communication failures that are off task. WSumCog Weight: 6)
It looks like a Sumatran Tiger…. Four feet
and even vague stripes. I like those tigers. Don’t
you love them? Tigers are beautiful.
DR1
This looks kind of scary too. The colors all
look like they’re supposed to make it more subdued
and so that you don’t notice it, but I do. Like it was
trying to hide and sneak up on me.
DR2
Peculiar Logic
PEC: Coded for peculiar, convoluted, strained, confused or overly concrete thinking. (WSumCog Weight: 5)
Two required elements:
1) The strained logic must be used to justify or to elaborate a response
2) The strained logic is offered spontaneously
Incongruous Combinations
INC1 (WSumCog Weight: 2), INC2 (coded for more bizarre responses) (WSumCog Weight: 4): coded when implausible combinations are described on a single response object.
“a horse with wings.”
INC1
“A dive-bombing butterfly.”
INC2
Fabulized Combinations
FAB1 (WSumCog Weight: 4), FAB2(WSumCog Weight: 7): Coded when there is an implausible relationship between two or more objects.
“two bears giving a high five.”
FAB1
“A conductor with a butterfly on his back. The butterfly is helping him conduct.”
FAB2
It’s on top, so it must be a crown.”
PEC
“its green, so it’s has to be a maple leaf.”
PEC
That’s a bat, here’s the wings out and body in
the middle, face, cheeks, mouth, and the eyes
are the spaces. It’s flying.”
CON (WSumCog Weight: 7): the body and the face of the bat are both occupying the same location and are superimposed.
