Deck 10: Projective Methods of Personality Assessment

Question 1

Which of the following is one of the disadvantages of self-report inventories?

A)Poor reliability and validity
B)Requires subjective interpretation
C)Client responses are often difficult to interpret
D)Requires the client to know himself or herself

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the Kinetic House-Tree-Person Test (KHTP),the house represents:

A)Safety
B)Intrafamilial relationships
C)Social relationships
D)Experience of one's environment

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who first introduced word association in 1879?

A)Jung
B)Rapaport,Gill,and Schafer
C)Galton
D)Freud

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Who believed that certain contents of drawing reflected specific personality characteristics?

A)Galton
B)Machover
C)Jung
D)Freud

Question 5

Projective personality assessments are:

A)Structured
B)Helpful
C)Unstructured
D)Unhelpful

Question 6

"I regret _____________________" is an example of:

A)Figure drawing test
B)Story construction test
C)Association test
D)Sentence completion test

Question 7

Referring to the previous question,the words "I regret" are called:

A)Starters
B)Stems
C)Beginners
D)Sentence types

Question 8

What is the most commonly used Rorschach scoring system?

A)Rorschach scoring and interpreting guide
B)Exner's comprehensive system
C)Jung's interpretation manual
D)Administrator's clinical judgment

Question 9

Why are the reliability and validity of projective assessments highly questioned?

A)Lack empirical evidence
B)Lack of minimum standards of reliability and validity
C)Estimates of reliability and validity are varied
D)All of the above

Question 10

According to the Kinetic House-Tree-Person Test (KHTP),the tree represents:

A)Nature
B)Intrafamilial relationships
C)Experience of one's environment
D)Father figure

Question 11

According to the Kinetic House-Tree-Person Test (KHTP),the person represents:

A)How one views the self
B)Mother figure
C)Peer relationships
D)Interpersonal relationships

Question 12

What construction technique consists of 10 animal pictures in social context and assesses the personality or emotional disturbance of the examinee?

A)Roberts Apperception Test for Children
B)Thematic Apperception Test
C)Word Association Test
D)Children's Apperception Test

Question 13

What projective technique is an unstructured personality assessment in which examinees are shown symmetrical inkblots and asked to respond with what each inkblot looks like?

A)Thematic Apperception Test
B)Draw-A-Man Test
C)Kinetic Inkblot Test
D)Rorschach Inkblot Test

Question 14

Compared to objective personality assessments,scoring and interpretation of projective personality assessments are:

A)Easier
B)Less resource intensive
C)More difficult
D)Less accurate

Question 15

Which of the following is not one of the advantages of projective assessments,compared to self-report inventories?

A)There is less risk of social desirability
B)Examinees have flexibility in their responses
C)Ease of administration,scoring,and interpretation
D)Helps facilitate rapport with a client

Question 16

Which test asks the examinee to draw a man,woman,and self-portrait?

A)Draw-A-Man task
B)Machover's Draw-A-Person Test
C)Thematic Apperception Test
D)Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test

Question 17

Projective tests require advanced skills and extensive training beyond that offered in a graduate program.

Question 18

In what way are Draw-A-Family (DAF)and Kinetic Family Drawing (KDF)different?

A)KDF requires examinee to draw their family doing something
B)KDF requires examinee to draw themselves interacting with school figures
C)KDF requires examinee to draw their peer group playing
D)KDF requires examinee to draw their ideal family

Question 19

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)is an example of:

A)Construction technique
B)Creation technique
C)Imagination technique
D)Completion technique

Question 20

Why are animals used,rather than humans,in the Children's Apperception Test?

A)The use of animals are more interesting for children to create stories about
B)The use of animals may reduce children's apprehensions about the test
C)The use of animals has been shown to be more valid for young children on projective tests
D)The use of animals assesses for emotional disturbance in children and adolescents

Question 21

What are the five categories of projective tests? Give an example of each.

Question 22

Stimuli presented in projective assessments are ______________ and a person's responses are not limited to true,false,or specific given response choice.

Question 23

The Mayers' Gravely Disabled Sentence Completion Task is used with identify clients with severely impaired ______________.

Question 24

_____________ is a verbal association projective personality technique in which an examinee responds to a series of words with the first word that comes to mind after hearing each word.

Question 25

___________ is defined as to perceive in terms of past events.

Question 26

What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-report inventories?

Question 27

The _____________ is one of the most validated sentence completion forms available.

Question 28

The _________________ has been described as having "the dubious distinction of being simultaneously the most cherished and most reviled of all psychological instruments.

Question 29

______________ was considered a defense mechanism in which an individual subconsciously attributes his or her unacceptable motives or characteristics onto others.

Question 30

Describe association techniques.What theory is it based upon? Give an example of an association technique.

Question 31

What are the advantages and disadvantages of projective testing?

Question 32

In the Roberts Apperception Test for Children,examinees are shown pictures and asked to complete a ____________ based on those pictures.