GRGR(4) Projective: Rorschach Inkblot Test

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The best known projective psychological test is the Rorschach, or
inkblot test. The patient is asked to look at each blot and to say what
it looks like or what it could be. Because the stimulus is ambiguous,
the patient must impose his or her own structure. In doing so, thoughts,
feelings, and themes, some of which are unconscious, are projected into
the material. Projective tests tend to have lower validity and
reliability than objective tests. That is, they are less stable, and
have lower relationships with other criteria. However, the information
which they provide tends to be richer and more varied.

The Rorschach test is particularly useful for detecting the types of
disordered thought patterns seen in schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders. The scoring of this test takes into account the popularity of
the patient's responses, the content of the responses, whether the
figures are seen as moving or stationary, response complexity, whether
color or shading is used, and other factors. As with most tests, there
are no
single responses which are seen as necessarily pathological. Response
frequencies and ratios are compared to normal and abnormal averages to
determine if pathology or a particular tendency is present.

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Note that some of the cards are monochrome while others are full color.
The impact of color is seen as indicative of how the testee expereinces
and processes emotion. Also note the use of statistical analysis in
interpretation.

For whom the bell-curve tolls.

Do you hear ringing in your ears?