1. Assessing the
Unconscious
Projective Tests
used to assess personality (e.g.,
Rorschach or TAT tests)
How? provides ambiguous
stimuli and subject projects
his or her motives into the
ambiguous stimuli
2. Assessing the Unconscious --
Rorschach
• Rorschach Inkblot Test
• the most widely used projective
test
• a set of 10 inkblots designed by
Hermann Rorschach
Rorschach