The Rorschach inkblot test consists of 10 inkblots that subjects describe in order to examine their personality and thinking processes. It was developed in the early 1900s by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, who was interested in how people perceive ambiguous images. The test administration involves 4 phases - introduction, response, inquiry, and interpretation of codes assigned to the responses. Responses are analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively to derive scores related to various personality characteristics.

2. Rorschach
inkblot
test

3.  Is a psychological test in which subjects
perception of inkblot are rescored and then
analyzed using psychological interpretation,
complex scientifically derived algorithms, or
both.
 Some psychologist use these test to examine a
person personality characteristics and
emotional functioning.
 It has been employ to detect an underlying
thought disorder especially in the case where
patients are reluctant to describe their thinking
processes openly.

4. He was a swiss
psychiatrist whose
interest included art and
psychoanalysis particular
work of Carl Jung. In
1913, he published
paper on how analysis of
patients artwork could
provide insights to
personality.

6.  Roschach consist of ten (10) Bilaterally
Symmetrical (mirrored image) inkblot printed
in separete cards.
 Five (5) achromatic inkblot or without colorblack
and white.
 Two (2) inkblot are black, red, and white.
 The reaming three inkblot are multicolored.

7.  Contents:
1. Stimulus
cards(10)
2. Response sheet
3. Manual

8.  Material require for
administration
1. All the test content
2. Stopwatch
3. Different color pencils
4. Good seating
arrangement

10. 1) Introducing the subject to the
technique
2) Giving the test instruction
3) The response phase
4) The inquiry phase

11. › Site side by side
› Cards should not be made visible before
› Appropriate order with card I on top
› Hand the person the first card and asking
 “What might be this?”

12.  How many things I should find?
 Can I turn it?
› “It is up to you.”
 Should I just use my imagination?
› “Just tell me what you see there”.
 Examiner should use good common sense
and answered in a non direct way.
 The client should hold the card.

13.  Responses or Free Association Phase
› Test taker is instructed to tell what is on each of
the cards
› “What might this be?”
 Inquiry Phase
› Examiner attempts to determine what feature of
the inkblot played a role in formulate the test
taker's percept (perception of an image).

14.  Verbatim, no probing, silence by examiner is
the rule
 I don’t se anything there
› Take your time, we’re in no hurry (everyone can find
something)
› If you take time and look some more, I think you’ll
find something else too.
 Response time to be noted
 Total time to be noted

15.  Conducted after all responses are given to all 10
cards
 Gain information needed to score accurately
 Nondirective questions
 Complete location sheet
 Not used to generate new information
› “OK., we’ve done them all. Now we are going to going
back through them. It won’t take long I want to help me
see what you saw. I m going to read what you said, and
them I want you to show me where in the blot you saw it
and what is there that makes it look like that, so I can see
it too. I’d like to see it just like you did, so help me now. Do
you understand.”

16.  Focus on gaining information and ask question on:
› Location (where is it)
› Deteminants ( what makes it look like that?)
› Content ( what is it?)
 Example
 Responses:
It is a pretty flower
Inquiry :
E: (repeats responses)
S: yes that the stem & here are the patals
E: U mentioned that it is pretty

18.  Where
› Entire blot = W
› Commaon detail= D
› Unususal detail= Dd and dD
› Use of white space=S

19.  Why
 F= formshape
 C=color
 FC= shape and color
 CF= color and shape
 M= human movement
 FM= animal movement
 Fc= texture response
 Fk= shading response
 Fm= object movement

20.  Human= H
 Animal= A
 Human Aantomy= At
 Animal Anatomy= Aat
 Object= Obj
 Blood= blood
 Fire= fire
 Plant= plant
 Clouds= clouds
 Geographical= Geo
 Human like (ghost, cartoon)= (H)
 Animal like (dragon, cartoon)= (A)
 Human part= Hd
 Animal parts= Ad
 food= Fd
 Sex= sex
 Abstract= Abs
 Force= m

24. Interpretation consist of three steps
1) Listing the sequences of codes or scores
2) Recording the frequency for each variable
3) Performing various calculation required to obtain
the ratio, percentages and derived scores

26.  Total responses
 Popular responses
 Color shock and shading shock
 Form quality
 Qualitative analysis
 Quantitative analysis