Psychodiagnostik

a book of poems in 1857 which was inspired by klecksography, the art of making art from inkblots, as well as Alfred Binet, a French psychologist who worked with inkblots to use them as a part of testing for creativity. Rorschach, who also served as Vice President of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, decided to pen a book, Psychodiagnostik, in 1921 after observing 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects. Though the book introduced the basics of the use of inkblot test, only ten inkblots were featured although he had hand drawn hundreds of them. Despite his position as Vice President he had trouble publishing the book, low sales post-publication did not help either. After his death in 1922, his test scoring system was refined by many including Bruno Klopfer, a German psychologist who studied with Carl Jung at the Zurich Psychotechnic Institute. It was at this location that Klopfer first came into contact with the Rorschach test. It was John Exner, an American psychologist who made the scoring statistically rigorous. As previously mentioned, Rorschach only used ten out the hundreds on inkblots that he drew. They were published in his book Psychodiagnostik. Each printed on a separate white card, approximately 18 by 24 cm (Goldman 2000, p. 158). Each blot is perfectly symmetrical. Five are black ink, two are black and red ink and three are multicolored. All are on a white background. Each card usually elicits a different response depending on the subject in question. Card I…

A Rorschach test is a test that interprets the well-being of a person’s conscience. The subject is shown inkblots and is to determine whatever they see or imagine the picture to be. The perception of the inkblot is analyzed. The analysis comes from psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. So, have you ever wondered what goes on inside your head? There is test called the rorschach test that determines your conscientious condition. There are some doubts that the Rorschach test is…

In 1921, the Rorschach test was first introduced as a monograph entitled “Psychodiagnostic” by Hermann Rorschach. Originally produced to serve as a diagnostic tool for Schizophrenia, its purposes faced much controversy and it was soon designated to be projective measure of personality rather than to diagnose. Its strengths and weaknesses caused numerous studies on its reliability and validity, doubts about its purpose, and new techniques to be developed including other inkblot tests. However,…

Ragu Kandibedala Mrs. Carone Language Arts 12/ /15 Rorschach RST The way to test one's intelligence is to give him/her an actual test, not to show him/her a simple inkblot. The Rorschach Test was invented in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach. It was a symmetrical inkblot on a white sheet of paper, and was shown to people to test if they could piece together pictures. Though it is popular, it has lots of controversy. Despite the fact fact that the Rorschach test is still widely used, it is…