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Rorschach test
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Rorschach test: see personality personality, in psychology, the patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion unique to an individual, and the ways they interact to help or hinder the adjustment of a person to other people and situations.
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; psychological tests psychological test, any of a variety of testing procedures for measuring psychological traits and behavior, or for studying some specialized aspect of ability.
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Rorschach test
Psychol a personality test consisting of a number of unstructured ink blots presented for interpretation

Rorschach test [′rōr‚shäk ‚test]
(psychology)
A projective psychologic test in which the subject describes what he imagines seeing in a series of 10 standard inkblots of varying designs and colors.


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The latter's pattern is like the Rorschach ink blot test, the method of psychological evaluation.
For social scientists also, intelligence tests, Rorschach ink blot tests, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, the Vineland Social Maturity Test, and others have added new dimensions to our understanding of students and their behavior.
Ask a dozen people what they saw, and you got a dozen responses, much like viewing the famous ink blot test used to analyze personality.
 
 
 
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