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AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE MOSAIC PROJECTION TEST
Author(s) -
HIMMELWEIT H. T.,
EYSENCK H. J.
Publication year - 1945
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1945.tb00765.x
Subject(s) - emergency department , mill , test (biology) , psychology , library science , history , psychiatry , computer science , archaeology , biology , paleontology
In clinical psychology attention has been niques, as outlined above. The subject is focused increasingly on the possibilities of ignorant of the aim of the experiment. Dr assessing personality by means of projective Lowenfqld found that the type of pattern tests. In all these tests, 2 e.g. the Rorschach made with regard to content, form of pattern, or the Mosaic test, the subject is confronted . as well as choice of colour was indicative of with a comparatively unstructured situation, the personality of the subject and enabled her an inkblot or piecesof wood. He is asked to organize this material in his own way, and since there is no conventional pattern to guide him, he will draw upon the most readily available forces within himself. ‘These tests create conditions for the unselfconscious revelation from the hidden regions of personality’ (1). The interpretation of these imaginative productions offers great scientific difficulties. No hard and fast criteria of scoring can be employed-differences between two productions are qualitative rather than quantitative. Experimental validation of these more ‘intuitive’ techniques is, therefore, important in order to ascribe to them their proper place in clinical psychology.