Thematic apperception test (tat)

1. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) TAT has been among the most widely used, researched, and taught projective psychological tests. The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique . The subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as he can. Sometimes it is used in a psychiatric or psychological context to assess personality disorders, thought disorders.

2. Thematic Apperception Test Used to assess: Locus of problems Nature of needs Quality of interpersonal relationships

3. TAT: Psychometric Critique Selection of cards is not standardized Lack of norms Clinicians rely on qualitative impressions

4. The large number of research studies that have used the TAT have indicated that cultural, gender, and class issues must be taken into account.

5. TAT: Administration Now I want you to make up a story about each of these pictures. Tell me who the people are, what they are doing, what they are thinking or feeling, what led up to the scene, and how it will turn out.