projective personality test powetpoint .pdf

Personality test

2. PROJECTIVE
PERSONALITY
TESTS
PRESENTED BY:
JESABELL FE P. CAMODAG

3. HISTORY
•Francis Galton (1879)
-trials of word association for
measuring intelligence
•Kraepelin(1892)
-association method for studying
effects of fatigues, hunger etc

4. •Carl Jung
-first to formulate a
standardized wordassociation
•HermannRorschach (1921)
-publishedPsychodiagnotik

5. DEFINITION
•Words
•Images
•Situations

6. Designed to let a person…
•respond to ambiguous
stimuli
•reveal hidden emotions
•internalconflicts

7. •also called as
indirect interview
test

8. TYPES
a.Rorschach inkblot
Hermann Rorschach
(1884 -1922).

9. •consists of 10 cards having
prints of inkblot
•5 black and white.
•2 black, white, and red.
•3 multicolor.

11. Administration
•What might this be?

12. Scoring Categories
•Location:
–Part of inkblot utilized:
•Entire blot, large or small
section, minute detail, white
space.
•Determinants:
–Qualities of the inkblot:
•Form, color, shading,
movement.
•Popularity of response
–Frequency of response.
•Content:
–Human figures, animal
figures, blood etc.
•Form:
–How accurately
examinee’s perception
matches the
corresponding part of
the inkblot.

13. Interpretation…
•Generate hypotheses based on patterns of
response, recurrent themes and
interrelationships among scoring
categories:
-Whole responses -conceptual thought
processes.
-Form -reality testing
-Human movement -imagination.
-Color -emotional reactivity.

14. RELIABILITY AND
VALIDITY
•Lack scoring reliability
•Can only be used
effectively with severely
maladjusted individuals

15. b. Thematic Apperception Test
(TAT)
•Morgan and Murray (1935).
•Elicit fantasy material
•31 cards:
-30 black & white with scenes:
•Describe story.
-1 blank:
•Imagine picture on card and tell related
story.

16. Administration
•A set of 20 cards is
recommended, but
the number may vary
based on length of
stories.

19. Interpretation…
•Murray’s concepts:
-Need-arising from within the
individual
-Press-behavior arising from
within the environment
-Thema-interaction between need
and press.

20. •Reliability:
-Split-half, test-retest, and
alternate-form reliability
measures are not appropriate.
•Inter-rater reliability is
acceptable.

21. •Situational factors:
-Examiner.
-Events just prior to administration.
-Delivery of instructions.
-Transient internal needs states.
-Stimulus pull.
-Desire to fake good or bad.

22. •Validity:
–Conflicting
opinions

23. c.House-Tree-Person test
(John Buck 1948)
•designed to measure aspects
of a person’spersonality.
•can be used to assessbrain
damageand general mental
functioning.

25. Interpretation…
House
>size
-small house represents renunciation of
family life
>walls
-weaklines: fragility
-strong lines:needtofortifyboundaries

26. >roof
-more detail: concentrates on fantasies
-incomplete roof: evading formidable
ideas
>inclusion of windows, doors and
sidewalks
-openness to interaction
>inclusion of bushes , shades and shutters
-hesitation to open himself

27. As with other
subjectively scored
personality tests, there
is little support for its
reliability and validity.

28. d. Children Apperception Test
(CAT)-Bellak1949
-for acquiring
information about
children’s personality and
psychological processes

30. Administration
•20-45 minutes
Question asked:
•What went in the story
before and what will
happen later?

31. Scoring…
•No numerical
score or scale for
the test

32. RELIABILITY AND
VALIDITY
•Lack of
standardized
method and norms
for interpretation

33. e. Holtzman inkblot test
•forpersons’ agesfiveandup.
•toolin assessing:
-schizophrenia
-depression
-addiction
-characterdisorders.
•stackof47cardswithinkblots.
•Takes 50-80 minutes.

36. •The results that are given
should only be read and
interpreted by a licensed
professional psychologist/
psychiatrist.

37. APPLICATION
and
TECHNIQUES IN
PROJECTIVE
TESTS

38. ASSOCIATION
TECHNIQUE
•requires the client to
respond at the presentation
of stimulus (word) with the
first thing that comes to
mind.

39. COMPLETION
TECHNIQUES
•supply the subject with stimulus that is
incomplete and the subject is required to
complete it
•There two types:
❖Sentence completion
❖Story completion

41. ❖Story completion test:
•The researcher contrives stories instead of
sentences and asks the informants to complete
them.

43. CONSTRUCTION
TECHNIQUE
•produce or construct
something at
direction, usually a
story or a picture.

44. EXPRESSIVE TECHNIQUE
•draw, role play,
act or paint a
particular
situation or
concept

46. ORDERING CHOICE
•most frequently used in
quantitative researchers.
•explain why specific things are
‘most’ or ‘least’ important or to
order, rank or categorize some
factors related to topics under
research

48. STRENGHTS OF
PROJECTIVE
PERSONALITY
TEST

49. •Helpful when the issues to be addressed
are personal, sensitive, or subject to
strong social norms.
•Helpful when underlying motivations,
beliefs, and attitudes are operating at a
subconscious level.
•Projective test can be used in marketing:
•Projective test useful in business:

50. •The amount, richness and
accuracy of the
information collected is
reliable to an extent.
•give a view of the total
functioning of individual

51. •In qualitative research project,
projective techniques may be
employed as the basis of ‘breaking
the ice’ in a focus group.

52. •Rendering new energy in a group
discussion and to enlighten the
tone or mood of proceedings,
subjects enjoy projective test
•Wide range of ideas are
encouraged and there is no right
or wrong answer

53. WEAKNESSES
OF
PROJECTIVE
PERSONALITY
TEST

54. •It need highly qualified and
experienced professionals
•It is expensive
•Risk of interpretation bias
•Unstructured techniques
•Low psychometrics
characteristics

55. CONCLUSION
•put relatively low strain on participants.
•using a variety of test as opposed to direct
questioning boosts engagement and
increase participant enjoyment.
•When used correctly, they are useful tools
that can uncover true motivations behind
behaviours and subconscious attitudes.

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