The more descriptive " rating scale or self-report measures " and " free response measures " are suggested, rather than the terms " objective tests " and " projective tests, " respectively.
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When we make a choice . . . it is a kind of projective test in that we choose what fills our needs, fits our personality and makes us feel good about ourselves,
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The "'Blacky pictures test "'was a projective test, employing a series of twelve picture cards, used by psychoanalysts in mid-20th century America and elsewhere, to investigate the extent to which children's personalities were shaped by Freudian psychosexual development.
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Because of this, for instance, estimations of personality characteristics with the help of projective tests ( which are addressed mostly to unconscious properties ) often contradict the results of self-estimations made with help of questionnaires ( which are based on consciousness ).
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:: : : : : : : A psychologist who was trained on projective tests in the 1940's tole me that he could achieve the same results by having the examinee give his reactions to random cartoons, magazine illustrations or cereal box illustrations.
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Responding to the statistical criticism of his projective test, Leopold Szondi said that his test actually discovers " fate and existential possibilities hidden in the inherited familial unconscious and the personal unconscious, even those hidden because never lived through or because have been rejected.
