Quiz 4

Question 1

What is ABS?

Answer 1

Abstract Representation: Assigned to responses in which the blot features are used to symbolize a particular abstract concept or idea

e.g., the black is depression

Question 2

What does PER Mean?

Answer 2

Personal Knowledge Justification: Occurs when the respondent refers to personal knowledge or experience to justify or bolster a response

e.g., I’m seeing it that way because I have personally seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled, or otherwise had experience with it.

Question 3

Cooperative Movement

Answer 3

COP: Coded for cooperative, positive, or pleasant interactions between two or more objects

e.g., “Two wolves working together to hunt the blue animal.”

Question 4

Mutuality of Autonomy- Health

Answer 4

MAH: Coded when the respondent describes two autonomous entities in a reciprocally interactive activity

e.g., “Two People singing a duet.”

Question 5

Mutuality of Autonomy-Pathology

Answer 5

MAP: Coded when an agent or object compromises the autonomy of another object or is destructive to it.

e.g., “A witch placing a spell on someone.”

Question 6

Aggressive Movement

Answer 6

AGM: Coded for aggressive activity, either physical or mental, that is occurring in the response, including tension states.

Human, Animal, or inanimate movement must be present.

e.g., “an angry person.”

Question 7

Aggressive Content

Answer 7

AGC: Coded for content commonly perceived as dangerous, harmful, injurious, malevolent, or predatory

Question 8

Morbid

Answer 8

MOR: Coded for damaged objects or designated terms such as broken, dead, defective, deformed, destroyed, disabled, diseased, disfigured, or injured.

Question 9

Oral Dependency Language

Answer 9

ODL: Coded to suggest images that convey themes of nurturance, needed support, oral activity, food and eating, birth and fragility.

Question 10

Code “The red symbolizes love.”

Answer 10

ABS

Question 11

Code “ It looks like a guitar, an electric guitar, my brother has one just like it

Answer 11

PER

Question 12

“Two people Dancing Together.”

Answer 12

COP, MAH

Question 13

“A crumpled up brown leaf”

Answer 13

MOR

Question 14

“A very sad face”

Answer 14

MOR

Question 15

“A smashed bug”

Answer 15

MOR, MAP

Question 16

“A worn out pelt.”

Answer 16

MOR

Question 17

“A crab; part of it’s body is missing.”

Answer 17

MOR

Question 18

“Two people playing a game together.”

Answer 18

COP, MAH

Question 19

“Bugs at a party, having a fun time together.”

Answer 19

COP, MAH

Question 20

“A Monster sneaking up behind another creature to get him.”

Answer 20

AGC, AGM

Question 21

“It’s a wasp, I can see the stinger.”

Answer 21

AGC

Question 22

“He’s angry. Look at his eyes.”

Answer 22

AGM

Question 23

“Armies in combat. Lots of guns.”

Answer 23

AGM, AGC

Question 24

What are This/ That responses?

Answer 24

Responses where a test taker identifies a very specific, unique, or uncommon object in the inkblot, often not readily apparent to others.

e.g., “This looks like a tiny alien with a big head, hiding behind a rock, looking out at the world with one eye.”

Question 25

Deviant Verbalizations

Answer 25

Coded when the respondent uses a mistaken or inappropriate word or phrase to communicate or to describe a response. DV1: Intended meaning is relatively clear, word use is benign or at times, playful (WSumCog Weight: 1) DV2: Incomprehensible or very difficult-to-understand word misuse that interferes with communication. (Think communication failure, and condensation of mutually exclusive elements) (WSumCog Weight: 2)

Question 26

"He's all clowned up."

Answer 26

DV1

Question 27

"The outside lookers, the onlookers of the outside."

Answer 27

DV2

Question 28

Deviant Responses

Answer 28

DR1 and DR2: involve confused language, task distortions, loose associations to the blot, or rambling, circumstantial responses that drift from the task. DR1: Typically contained, brief examples of inappropriate or task unrelated language. (WSumCog Weight: 3) DR2: Markedly confusing communication or communication failures that are off task. WSumCog Weight: 6)

Question 29

It looks like a Sumatran Tiger.... Four feet and even vague stripes. I like those tigers. Don’t you love them? Tigers are beautiful.

Answer 29

DR1

Question 30

This looks kind of scary too. The colors all look like they’re supposed to make it more subdued and so that you don’t notice it, but I do. Like it was trying to hide and sneak up on me.

Answer 30

DR2

Question 31

Peculiar Logic

Answer 31

PEC: Coded for peculiar, convoluted, strained, confused or overly concrete thinking. (WSumCog Weight: 5) Two required elements: 1) The strained logic must be used to justify or to elaborate a response 2) The strained logic is offered spontaneously

Question 32

Incongruous Combinations

Answer 32

INC1 (WSumCog Weight: 2), INC2 (coded for more bizarre responses) (WSumCog Weight: 4): coded when implausible combinations are described on a single response object.

Question 33

"a horse with wings."

Answer 33

INC1

Question 34

"A dive-bombing butterfly."

Answer 34

INC2

Question 35

Fabulized Combinations

Answer 35

FAB1 (WSumCog Weight: 4), FAB2(WSumCog Weight: 7): Coded when there is an implausible relationship between two or more objects.

Question 36

"two bears giving a high five."

Answer 36

FAB1

Question 37

"A conductor with a butterfly on his back. The butterfly is helping him conduct."

Answer 37

FAB2

Question 38

It's on top, so it must be a crown."

Answer 38

PEC

Question 39

"its green, so it's has to be a maple leaf."

Answer 39

PEC

Question 40

That’s a bat, here’s the wings out and body in the middle, face, cheeks, mouth, and the eyes are the spaces. It’s flying.”

Answer 40

CON (WSumCog Weight: 7): the body and the face of the bat are both occupying the same location and are superimposed.