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Rorschach test

Psychol a personality test consisting of a number of unstructured ink blots presented for interpretation
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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 individual, who doesn't appear to be Rorschach himself but rather an imitator, says: "We are no one.
The two issues for 2018, published here together, contain research articles on police trauma and Rorschach indicators: an exploratory study, and differential performance of professional dancers to the music apperception test and the thematic apperception test.
At times, the pictographs read like nature-administered Rorschach tests, with one image immediately obvious but several other possible visual interpretations revealing themselves with prolonged analysis.
In the Rorschach test a participant's perceptions of inkblots are recorded and are then analysed for clues about his or her personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
A Rorschach test consists of ten of these inkblots, each printed on a card: five black-and-white, two black-and-red, and three vaguely pastel.
A proposta de construir uma tabela normativa do Rorschach para adolescentes mostrou-se plenamente justificada, especialmente pelas diferencas que foram apresentadas nas comparacoes com estudo semelhante realizado anteriormente com adultos.
concluded that the substantial majority of Rorschach and TAT indexes are not empirically supported, and that validity evidence for human figure drawing techniques is even more limited.
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