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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Inkblot Test

The Rorschach test (commonly known as the psychological inkblot test) was named after Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach. It is a series of ink blots shown to patients, who are then asked to describe what they see. The test-taker is evaluated on 100 variables, which will show what he/she truly feels deep inside and not just separating psychotic thinking from "normal" thought. It's like asking " How does someone view and organize the world around them?."

Psychiatrists are blasting online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the website posted the Rorschach Test photos and subsequent common answers, insisting the site has given patients a cheat sheet.

From the psychologists' view, these "cheats" could help test-takers game the system and get in the way of research because if patients peek at the interpretations beforehand, they may get in the way of their own diagnoses.

I think there is no big difference whether or not the patient will cheat the inkblot test. Patients have different backgrounds that affect their personalities and the way they perceive things differ from each other. And people with psychological disorders don't have preconceived clear thoughts about some things. Anyways, the patients' answers are ideally interpreted by at least two clinicians.
It doesn't matter really.


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