The test is used to examine how a person functions emotionally and the characteristics of their personality. It has also been used to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients were reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The goal of the test is to reveal the basic personality factors, such as, motivation, response tendencies, affectivity and personal/interpersonal perceptions. The argument is that the person will see things based on who they are as a person, their upbringing and their life choices and other things like; necessities, conflicts, aspiration. It is believed that if you have bad characteristics you will see darker more sinful things like death, blood, sex or something threatening and good characteristics would see more ordinary things. Rorschach would use a specific system called the Exner system to analyse the results and score them based on how the person had interpreted each inkblot image, and if the score was high then it wasn’t a good
The test is used to examine how a person functions emotionally and the characteristics of their personality. It has also been used to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients were reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The goal of the test is to reveal the basic personality factors, such as, motivation, response tendencies, affectivity and personal/interpersonal perceptions. The argument is that the person will see things based on who they are as a person, their upbringing and their life choices and other things like; necessities, conflicts, aspiration. It is believed that if you have bad characteristics you will see darker more sinful things like death, blood, sex or something threatening and good characteristics would see more ordinary things. Rorschach would use a specific system called the Exner system to analyse the results and score them based on how the person had interpreted each inkblot image, and if the score was high then it wasn’t a good