AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rorschach Inkblot Test was developed in 1921 by a Swiss psychologist named Hermann Rorschach (pronounced “ROAR-shock”). The history states that one of Hermann’s favorite games, when he was a child, was called Klecksography, which involved creating inkblots and creating stories or poems about them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test, a test designed to reflect unconscious parts of the personality that project into the visual stimuli generated by the inkblots, allowing a psychodiagnosis to be established.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rorschach test, also called Rorschach inkblot test, projective method of psychological testing in which a person is asked to describe what he or she sees in 10 inkblots, of which some are black or gray and others have patches of colour. The test was introduced in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rorschach went on to study psychiatry and while training, in 1918, he noticed that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia made radically different associations to the Klecksographie inkblots than did normal people. He therefore developed the Rorschach test as a diagnostic tool for schizophrenia.

Detailed explanation-5: -For the 1940’s and 1950’s, the Rorschach was the test of choice in clinical psychology. It fell into disfavor as many clinicians began criticizing it as “subjective” and “projective” in nature.