Thematic Apperception Test

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) using the principles of Freudian repression as his basis, asserts that you can evaluate a person's needs for power and achievement, ambition and his ability to solve the problem by generating conscious state and get to use his subject's repressed emotions to express their response to the tests given to him. This test is often used to assess individuals who apply for employment in fields such as law enforcement, the military, education, bureaucracy and other fields of national and international importance.
Thematic Apperception Test: An Overview

Two American psychologists Henry a. Murray and Christiana d. Morgan was responsible for the development of the size of the proyektif that is used to assess and analyze how a person thinks, what his thought pattern is, his attitude toward different situations, the capacity and the ability to observe the situation and the way in which the person is to respond to the different test materials that are intentionally vague in nature. TAT was developed in the 1930s at Harvard. It was after the second world war that the tests used more by psychoanalysts throughout the country to assist people who have been hurt emotionally by the war and its impact. In the 1970s, TAT became a tool in the world, where people can understand themselves and help them grow, regardless of whether or not they have suffered any emotional trauma. TAT-test is one of the most widely used projections of psychology in the world along with the Rorschach method.

TAT using 31 cards with pictures. Each card has a picture of man in different situations. These images are generally provocative without directly or pointing in a certain direction. Of the 31 pictures shown to the subject, it's ten determined by gender. Although initially, the card is designed in a way that psychologists can pick ten cards depending on the age and gender of the subject is undergoing tests, all of the cards, which is vague in nature, can be used for a wide variety of themes. Using a special card to the subject though, can deliver better results. The person indicated the cards needed to develop a story about the pictures being shown. For the proper interpretation, the subject or the person who is being shown cards, need to include the following features when telling stories.

What is being shown in the picture?
What are the events that led to the situation in the picture?
What are the characters that are present in the picture, think and feel and what you think their reaction will be?
What do you think will be the outcome of the event?

This test is considered as an example of the size of the proyektif. Proyektif is a measure of the psychological tool that allows a psychoanalyst or clinical psychologist to assess the person's ability and the habit of projecting their thought process and emotional response to images that are displayed based on the pattern that they follow. Once they have all the information they need is provided by people who take the tests, psychologists use data to understand what people want, why would he behave in a certain way and what problems he struggled emotionally, either knowingly or unknowingly. While the term universally used for Thematic Apperception Test fixed tests, psychologists mostly prefer to call this technique, because they believe that the test refers to something that can be measured in the right or wrong, true to TAT and test the same proyektif approach.

The test has been criticized by some professional psychologists because of the fact that such a test had been based on the principles of Freudian repression, which according to many people let go of their desires and fantasies in a conscious state, hold on to them in their unconscious state. Like most principles of Freudian theory, even repression have held unscientific and unreliable by many in the psychological community. But despite the criticism, the sample tests are widely used, including those used by people doing interviews and even people who are involved in the research. TAT is used widely in France, Argentina, Israel and India, especially for recruitment in the field of Defense. Thematic Apperception test, even today, continues to be a widely-used method for psychological testing and the test psikometri.

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