Hermann Rorschach: book and three inkblot tests
Hermann Rorschach: book and three inkblot tests
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Rorschach inkblot test
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Hermann Rorschach
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inkblot test

Rorschach test, projective method of psychological testing in which a person is asked to describe what he or she sees in 10 inkblots, of which some are black or gray and others have patches of colour. The test was introduced in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. It attained peak popularity in the 1960s, when it was widely used to assess cognition and personality and to diagnosis certain psychological conditions. Responses to the Rorschach test are typically scored on the basis of the location in the blot of the thing seen, the kind of stimulus characteristic emphasized (e.g., form or ...(100 of 196 words)