Self-Reporting Measures

Berlin

London
Sybil Eysenck

Vienna

Max Rostal
• 57
• Lie scale
• E scale
• N scale
• Yes/No
 Central Lake,
Michigan
Starke Hathway

Minneapolis
JC Mckinley
• 567
• True, false or
cannot say
Mallick and Joshi*

Jodhpur
Raymond
Cattell

West
Bromwich,
UK

Honolulu
 Shanghai

*died of Cancer
Herbert
Eber Landshut, Gemrany
• Forms A, B, C,
D, E and F
Projective
Techniques
 Freud’s
PROJECTION as an ego defense mechanism
v/s PROJECTION as a technique
 Projectivetests assess the personality indirectly by
presenting a person with an ambiguous figure or
picture and asking them to provide an interpretation
or giving meaning to what is shown.
 The assumption is that one will project their
unconscious desires and ideas onto the ambiguous
stimuli and therefore give an idea as to where their
issues might be rooted.
1. Rorschach Inkblot Test
2. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
3. Sentence Completion Test (SCT)
RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST
 Hermann Rorschach, 1921
 10 cards with bilaterally symmetrical inkblots
5grey and black; 2 grey, black and red; 3
multicoloured
 What is recorded?
verbal responses, time taken, positions of holding
cards, spontaneity and emotional expressions
 What is the basis of analysis?
Location,determinant, content, form, originality of
the responses
THEMATIC
APPERCEPTION TEST
Murray and Morgan, 1935
Highly structured stimulus requiring complex
and meaningfully organized verbal
responses
19 black and white cards + 1 blank card
Indian adaptation by Dr. Uma Chowdhary
Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)
• SEMI-PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE
• ORIGINALLY DEVISED BY HERMANN
EBBINGHAUS
• SACH’S SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST

SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST