Word: rorschach
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...first and third day, the doctors gave the students a modified Rorschach (ink blot) test designed to spot psychotic symptoms. All passed. Early on the third day they also gave a complex, 45-minute comprehension test. Although by this time all the students had had illusions and "waking dreams," were glassy-eyed with fatigue, they collected their addled senses well enough to solve the test problems...
...nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never come back to me." Columnist Herb Caen, the Boswell of the Bay, says: "They...
...newspaper in the Far East. Stars & Stripes ran Line's contribution under the heading "Nipponoodles." So many Americans began sending in their own Kanji entries that the paper started a Nipponoodle contest and appointed a full-time Nipponoodle editor, who found that it was "like taking a perpetual Rorschach test." With more than 12,000 commonly used characters to draw from, crazy Kanji fever swept the U.S. colony in Japan and erupted into a Stars & Stripes anthology of the 100 best Nippo-noodles. To let the folks back home in on the fun, a U.S. publisher (Greenberg; New York...
...desire to be as free of preconceived ideas as possible has allowed Gerassi to paint in a number of different styles. There are very abstract red blotches on green backgrounds that have an affinity with Pollock and the Rorschach tests, as well as recognizable still lifes and landscapes. In this sense, Gerassi reminds us of his compatriot Picasso although the fluent shifts in style by Picasso are motivated by a more intellectual problem-solving mentality...
...selling gimmick with a symbolism that appeals to the unconscious. MR practitioners are convinced that most shoppers buy irrationally, to satisfy unconscious cravings. To explore the cravings-and to learn why some men smoke cigars, or how women choose shoes-MR interviewers use such psychological tests as the Rorschach cards, the TAT (Thematic-Apperception Test) or even the formidable MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). They often interview their quarry in groups, because there prejudices may be revealed more freely, like confessions at a revival meeting. As with psychologists in other fields, their conclusions often seem to be commonplaces dressed...