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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.
Since a projective test requires a highly trained psychologist to analyze the data and determine what it means, it has faced criticism. Projective tests, such as the Rorschach test have been criticized due to issues with inter-rater reliability, test-retest reliability (repeatability), validity, biases, and issues with cultural sensitivity and ...
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.
The best known and most frequently used projective test is the Rorschach inkblot test. This test was originally developed in 1921 to diagnose schizophrenia. [4] Subjects are shown a series of ten irregular but symmetrical inkblots, and asked to explain what they see. [5]
There is a Rorschach test for every American on tax policy. Everyone views income in one of two ways: as belonging to the person who earned it, or as all belonging to the government, which allows ...
Hermann Rorschach (German: [ˈhɛːman ˈʁoːʁʃaχ]; 8 November 1884 – 2 April 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality.
“Because Skyler didn’t conform to a comfortable ideal of the archetypical female, she had become a kind of Rorschach test for society, a measure of our attitudes toward gender.” The ...
A mother died shortly after the birth of her fifth child due to hospital staff failing to “appropriately escalate” signs of a peritoneal hemorrhage, according to a coroner’s report.