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Rorschach|ˈrɔːʃɑːx|
The name of Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922), Swiss psychiatrist, used attrib. and absol. to designate a type of projective personality test first devised by him, in which a standard set of ink blots of different shapes and colours is presented one at a time to a subject with the request that he should describe what they suggest or resemble. Also Rorschach (ink) blot, Rorschach method, etc. Also fig.
1927Moir & Gundlach in Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. Apr. 151 Each subject was given the Rorschach test. Ibid., In a classification of the individual records according to the Rorschach diagnostic tables. 1935Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry July 109 The Rorschach test has recently received considerable attention in psychiatric and psychological circles. 1942[see insecurity 1]. 1948Personnel Psychol. I. 357 (heading) Can the Rorschach pick sales clerks? 1951Koestler Age of Longing i. 40 The brandy..expanded slowly into a Rorschach blotch on the marble surface. 1953A. K. C. Ottaway Educ. & Society viii. 147 The Rorschach method of giving a verbal interpretation of ink-blots. 1956Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 121 The social or clinical psychologist will want to go still more deeply into the individual's imaginative response to the Rorschach ink blots. 1958Listener 17 July 93/2 Rorschach blots and tapestries. 1960Commentary June 486/2 Rorschach (inkblot) ratings. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 18 His [sc. a psycho-therapist's] theory being that a face is symmetrical like a Rorschach blot. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXV. 295 Free associative responses and responses to ambiguous stimuli—a kind of auditory Rorschach. 1974B. M. & D. D. Braginsky Mainstream Psychol. vi. 118 The two most widely used psychological tests, the Rorschach inkblot test and the Draw-a-Person test (both projective tests), have also been widely researched. 1980Dædalus Spring 136 The Rorschach test is effective..because it forces people to be creative. |