Reading Comprehension: Application Questions
Which of the following set of test directions would most likely accompany a projective test?
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[[snippet]]It might seem at first glance that a picture of a person on a farm is not an ambiguous stimulus. However, the words "what you think is happening" tell us that different people could interpret the picture in different ways. Moreover, by creating a story out of a picture, a respondent would be forced to interpret the items in the picture in his or her own way (for example, we do not know whether the person on the farm is a farmer or a visitor).
By following these directions, a respondent would be use their reactions to the picture to make a concrete result (the story), thereby qualifying their reactions to an ambiguous stimulus.
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[[snippet]]Projective tests ask respondents to react to ambiguous stimuli, not to create something ambiguous.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]This answer choice describes a possible set of directions to an objective test, which asks direct questions that rely on a respondent's insight into him or herself, rather than a projective test which asks about reactions to ambiguous stimuli.
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[[snippet]]This answer choice, although the stimulus involved in it is ambiguous, does not ask the respondent to react to the stimulus itself, but to the process of making it.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]In this answer choice, the stimulus is unambiguous. One cannot interpret a cat, under these circumstances, in any other way.
