TAT experiment: Thematic Apperception Test (TAT for short) is a projective personal test invented by American psychologist Henry Murray in 1935. It can be used to understand the psychological needs, contradictions and inner emotions of subjects. TAT inspires test subjects to project their inner fantasies and mental activities through sketch images, and inadvertently becomes an X-ray showing the test subject’s heart and self.
The full set of TAT thematic apperception tests includes 30 black and white pictures with ambiguous content and a blank card. In actual practice, the examiner selects 20 pictures from the actual 30 black and white pictures according to the age and gender of the subjects, and allows the subjects to freely state the stories represented by the pictures based on the pictures.
There are no restrictions on the content of the stories written by the subjects during the TAT thematic apperception test, but the subjects can be reminded in advance that the stories must involve the four aspects of illustrated situations, meanings, backgrounds, evolutions, and personal feelings. The analysis of the stories written by the subjects is based on the themes involved in each story, which in Murray’s personality theory is assumed to reflect the individual’s deep needs, desires, conflicts, and fears. Waiting state.
The purpose of this test is to naturally invest the subject’s inner emotions in the story through free statements, thereby finding the relationship between personal life experience, consciousness, subconsciousness and his or her current psychological state.
This psychological test is an inner X-ray test based on the principle of TAT. Please answer the questions based on your first impression.
