Exner's Comprehensive System for Scoring the Rorschach Test

question 49

Multiple Choice

Exner's Comprehensive System for scoring the Rorschach test

• A) results in some scoring categories that are deemed unreliable, but only because these categories are sensitive to the present state of the respondent.
• B) has been found to be more reliable for research use than for use with clinical populations of multicultural origin.
• C) has been heavily criticized for being standardized only on populations with psychiatric disorders that have a low prevalence.
• D) was initially conceived as part of an all-consuming, "last ditch effort" to keep the Exner's from having members of the Myers-Briggs clan as in-laws.

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