Kalvin Is Completing a Projective Assessment

question 160

Multiple Choice

Kalvin is completing a projective assessment. He is shown different cards with pictures on them and asked to generate a story about what the card depicts. His therapist then analyzes his responses for clues as to his unconscious motivations. Kalvin is most likely taking which personality test?

• A) Rorschach Inkblot Test
• B) Thematic Apperception Test
• C) Myers-Briggs Test
• D) The MMPI

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Definitions:

Expectation

A belief or anticipation about the outcome of an event or situation in the future.

Perceptual Constancy

A tendency of the human perception system to see familiar objects as having standard shape, size, color, and location regardless of changes in the angle of perspective, distance, and lighting.

Reversibility

The ability in cognitive development to understand that actions can be reversed, restoring the original state.

Closure

The psychological term for the need to seek a clear, definitive answer to a question or resolution to an issue to find emotional peace.