Projective test

     THE RORSCHACH TEST

   The most popular Projective technique is the Rorschach inkblot test developed by Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist in 1921, to make a diagnostic investigation of personality as a whole. At the outset, it must be borne in mind that the Rorschach test is a measure of both the intellectual and non-intellectual traits of personality. He investigated with a large number of inkblots out of which only 10 inkblots that differentiated most between various psychiatric syndromes were selected to constitute a test. Thus the Rorschach test consisted of ten cards, each of which contained a bilaterally symmetrical printed inkblot. Five inkblot cards (cards I, IV, V, VI and VII) are made in shades of black and gray; two cards (card II and III) contain bright patches of red in addition to the shades of black  grey and the remaining three cards (card VIII, IX and X) contain several pastel shades. 

    An inkblot like that used in the Rorschach test is illustrated in Figure 1.0 . 

    The entire procedure of Rorschach test may be presented under the following three headings:- 

               1)      Administration

               2)      Scoring

               3)       Interpretation