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Rorschach test [1 record]

Record 1 2000-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

a projective test utilizing 10 cards, printed with bilaterally symmetrical inkblots to which the subject responds by telling what he "sees on each card, or anything that might be presented there". ... the test is said to be diagnostic of personality as a whole.

OBS

In some sources (ANAPS, 1968, p. 495 and ADEVA, 1964, p. 312) this test is sometimes designated as the Rorschach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Comportement humain
OBS

En 1918, il [Rorschach] construit un test projectif, composé de dix planches [...] représentant des taches symétriques. En notant l'importance que le sujet testé accorde aux différentes parties de celles-ci [...], il est possible de décrire la structure de sa personnalité [...]

OBS

Dans certaines sources (EMPSY, 1970, vol. 1, No 37190 A10, p. 2 et ZUMEN, 1976, p. 382), ce test est appelé le Rorschach.

OBS

EMSPY, 1970, vol. 1, N° 37190 A10, p. 2.

Spanish

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