Chapter 12

• It holds that an individual supplies structure to unstructured stimuli in a manner consistent with the individual's own unique pattern of conscious and unconscious needs, fears, desires, impulses, conflicts, and ways of perceiving and responding.


  Projective hypothesis
• A technique of personality assessment in which some judgment of the assessee's personality is made on the basis of performance on a task that involves supplying some sort of structure to unstructured or incomplete stimuli.

  Projective method
• A test that consists 10 bilaterally symmetrical for mirror-imaged if folded in half inkblots printed on separate cards.

  Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Rorschach protocols are scored according to several categories including:


  Location

  Determinants

  Content

  Popularity
• A test designed as an aid to eliciting fantasy material from patients in psychoanalysis.


  Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
• Defined as a nonconscious influence on behavior typically acquired on the basis of experience.


  Implicit motive
• A projective technique wherein it employs cartoons depicting frustrating situations.

  Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study
• A task that may be used in personality assessment in which an assessee verbalizes the first word that comes to mind in response to a stimulus word.

  Word association
• May be defined as a semi-structured, individually administered, projective technique of personality assessment that involves the presentation of a list of stimulus words.


  Word association test
• A projective technique of personality assessment that involves the presentation of a list of words that begin a sentence and the assessee's task is to respond by finishing each sentence with whatever word or words come to mind.

  Sentence completion test
• A projective method of personality assessment whereby the assessee produces a drawing that is analyzed on the basis of content and related variables.


  Figure drawing test
• Test that are quite straightforward, the examinee is given a pencil and blank sheet of white paper and told to draw a person.

  Draw A Person Test
• In DAP test attention has been given to such factors:


  Length of time

  Required to complete the picture

  Placement of figures

  Size of the figures

  Pencil pressure used

  Symmetry

  Line quality

  Shading

  Presence of erasure

  Facial expression

  Posture

  Clothing

  Overall appearance
• A projective figure drawing test where the test taker's task is to draw a picture of a house, tree, and person.

  House-Tree-Person test
• A projective figure drawing test where in the examinee is ask to draw a picture of everyone in your family, including you and doing something.

  Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
• Projective Methods in Perspective:


  Assumptions

  Situational variables

  Psychometric considerations
• Varieties of Behavioral Assessment:


  Behavioral observation and rating scale

  Self monitoring

  Analogue studies

  Situational performance measures

  Role play

  Psychophysiological methods

  Unobtrusive measures
• A generic term that may be defined broadly as a class of psychophysiological assessment technique to gauge, display, ad record a continuous monitoring of selected biological processes such as pulse and blood pressure.


  Biofeedback
• A biofeedback instrument tat records changes in the volume of a part of the body arising from variations in blood supply.

  Plethysmograph
• An instrument designed to measure changes in blood flow but more specifically blood flow to the penis.

  Penile plethysmograph