Rorschach inkblot test

thumb|right|There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you! —Richard Feynman The Rorschach inkblot test is a method of psychological evaluation developed by Hermann Rorschach. Psychologists use this test to try to examine the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of their patients. Quotes The subject is given one plate [inkblot] after the other and asked, "What might this be?" Almost all subjects regard the experiment as a test of imagination. This conception is so general that it becomes, practically, a condition of the experiment. Nevertheless, the interpretation of the figures actually has little to do with imagination, and it is unnecessary to consider imagination a prerequisite....The interpretation of the chance forms falls in the field of perception and apperception rather than imagination. Hermann Rorschach, Psychodiagnostics: A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception (1921; translated 1942) This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you! Richard Feynman in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, in the chapter Is Electricity Fire? I asked her what [Unconscious "Rorschach in Danmaku"] actually supposed to be, but she said it's just a random blob that happens to look like some kinda meaningful shape. It just looks like a colony a' mosquitoes to me. ZUN, line for Marisa Kirisame, The Grimoire of Marisa External links Rorschach test Category:Psychology