Word: rorschach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margin for Error. Such cases would raise perplexing professional problems under the most clinical of circumstances. Is an accused criminal presently sick? Psychologists know that batteries of tests, such as the Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory used on Sirhan, show only the probability that a man has certain personality traits; they have a built-in margin of error when applied to one individual. Even though experts may agree on the diagnosis of a man's present state, they often have difficulties when pressed to project it back to his condition at the time of the crime. The link...
...essential to the case, Cooper tried to expose any skepticism about this kind of evidence among potential jurors. Cooper asked a widow, Mrs. Rosa Molina, whether she shared the opinion of some that "all psychiatrists and psychologists are crazy." No, she replied. Did she have any prejudices against the Rorschach test, hypnosis, lie detectors or Sodium Pentothol (truth drug)? Again Mrs. Molina answered no, and she was one of those persons who by week's end had been tentatively accepted as jurors...
...morning in Liverpool, George, John, Paul and Ringo are approached by a troubled man in a canary-colored boat. His country, he announces, is in the hands of the Blue Meanies. The boys hop aboard and eventually arrive at Pepperland, where they conquer the villains-who look like angry Rorschach blots-with that worn weapon LOVE...
...most part, this film is like a Rorschach test. The viewer is forced to relate its elements to each other in his own way. One major reviewer went so far as to claim it a parable on the death...
...three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test, a Rorschach inkblot test, a picture-memory test and the Thematic Apperception Test. At any time during his training or six-month probationary period, a recruit's superior may order him to appear before the psychiatric board, which may recommend his dismissal...