Whenever a new guest comes to visit,Aimee points out her favorite abstract painting and asks for the guest's interpretation of it.Aimee believes that by doing so,she is able to discover the guest's unconscious impulses.Aimee is using the painting as a ________ measure of personality.
A) social cognitive
B) self-report
C) humanistic
D) projective

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Aimee is using the painting as a tool to elicit the guest's own unique interpretation, which is the basis of projective measures of personality. Projective measures assume that individuals project their own unconscious thoughts and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli, such as a painting. This interpretation can reveal insights into the individual's personality and unconscious impulses. Social cognitive measures focus on the individual's learned experiences and behaviors, self-report measures rely on the individual's own assessment of their personality, and humanistic measures emphasize the intrinsic worth and potential of the individual. None of these accurately describe Aimee's use of the painting to assess personality.

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