Thematic Apperception Test Paper

In this survey what I hoped to study was to see how differently people's minds think from one another. In the thematic apperception test, which is a test that consists of a series of pictures in which participants are told to make up a story that describes what is happening in the picture. I hoped to see many different kinds of stories from each student. This is an interesting topic for me to study because I enjoy seeing the different kinds of stories that people come up with for the picture I have chosen. Each of the person’s themes would be mostly different from one another and should be related to the picture that they are talking about. In this test, there are no right or wrong answers and each of the student descriptions are thought of from their own minds.

The reason why I chose the picture I have chosen is because it seems like a very happy and loving picture. They look like a very happy couple …show more content…
While some like to just do calm and relaxing things, like just staying at home and watching tv with the family. I think the thematic apperception test is a great way to study motivation because the participants story should be written in their own beliefs and motives. Their themes should be written to many needs, such as achievements, that is setting a goal and overcoming obstacles. What can be done to improve my experiment design and procedure is by distributing my picture to more than four students, so that I can have a greater idea on how different people think from one another. I can also pick a picture that has more people in it so that the participants that are writing about my picture have more to write about. Overall, I think that the rest of my experiment design and procedure was very well done and the students writing about my picture had written great and thoughtful