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The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) [1] [2] is a scoring and interpretive method to be used with the Rorschach inkblot test. [3] This system is being developed by several members of the Rorschach Research Council, a group established by John Exner to advance the research on the Comprehensive System, the most widely used scoring system for the Rorschach.
[1] Based on the correspondence of Rorschach, available in Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922): Briefwechsel, the publishing process was a two-year undertaking. [2] A second edition was edited by Walter Morgenthaler and published in 1932. [3] In 1942, it was published in English as Psychodiagnostics: A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception.
[1] Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the ink blot test was popular among clinical psychologists but quickly lost popularity as critics claimed it to be too subjective. Variations of the ink blot test have since been developed such as the Holtzman Inkblot Test and the Somatic Inkblot Series. [2] An ink blot test is a general category of projective ...
Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) is the largest psychological society focused on personality assessment. [1] It was founded in 1937 by Bruno Klopfer as the Rorschach Institute, renamed as The Society for Projective Tests and the Rorschach Institute in 1948, shortened to The Society for Projective Techniques in 1960, and given its current name in 1971.
Bruno Klopfer (1 October 1900 – 23 October 1971) was a German psychologist, born in Bavaria.. He had a profound impact on the development of psychological personality testing, and was an important pioneer and innovator in the development, scoring and popularization of projective techniques, especially the Rorschach inkblot test.
Piotrowski signs are ten signs of organic brain disease that can be found from having patients analyze Rorschach tests. [1] They were identified by Zygmunt Piotrowski, who analyzed the Rorschach test interpretations of patients with organic brain disease, central nervous system diseases (non-cerebral), and conversion disorder. He found that the ...
Molly Harrower (born Mary Rachel Harrower; January 25, 1906 – February 20, 1999) was an American clinical psychologist.During the Second World War she created a large-scale multiple choice Rorschach test.