Location
This location code is used when the respondent uses the entire inkblot.
What is W (Whole)?
Human figures, real or imagined, are coded under this content category.
What is H?
This determinant is coded when perceived movement is attributed to animals engaging in purposeful or intentional action.
What is FM?
This cognitive code is given when a response shows vague, loose, or imprecise thinking without a clear logical contradiction.
What is DV 1?
This thematic code is assigned only when the interaction between figures is clearly mutual, positive, and goal directed.
What is COP?
This code is used when a commonly identified part of the blot is used.
What is D (Common Detail)?
This content code includes internal organs, skeletons, or anatomical features.
What is An?
A response coded with both color and shading dominance, suggesting affect that is simultaneously intense and dysphoric, receives this compound determinant code.
What is C′F or FC′?
A response such as “a dog that is also the floor” is most appropriately coded with this cognitive score.
What is CONTAM?
This code requires the presence of intentional harm or threat, not merely the depiction of an animal or person that looks dangerous.
What is AGC?
This code applies when a rare or unusual part of the blot is selected.
What is Dd (Unusual Detail)?
Mythological or fictional creatures fall under this content code.
What is My?
When color is present but form is poor and color clearly dominates perception, the response earns this determinant.
What is CF?
When a percept combines two objects in a logically impossible way but retains clear grammar and intent.
What is INCOM2?
A response in which a figure is injured accidentally but not attacked would receive this code.
What is MOR?
This location code is used when the response focuses on the white (blank) space rather than the ink.
What is SR (Space Reversal)
This content code captures responses involving explosions, fire, or destructiveness
What is Ex?
This determinant combination indicates ideational movement accompanied by emotional coloration, often associated with fantasy infused with affect.
What is M + C or MC / CM?
This cognitive code reflects idiosyncratic, over‑personalized interpretations that are not culturally shared but remain linguistically intact.
What is PEC?
A response involving mouth imagery, but used solely for aggression (e.g., biting as an attack). Is it excluded from this ODL code.
What is NO?
The distinction between D and Dd is based on this criterion, not perceptual creativity.
What is the statistical frequency of use in the normative sample?
Food imagery without consumption, desire, or hunger is coded as.
What is NC?
When both motion and shading are present and inseparable in the percept, the correct determinant coding requires this step.
What is coding both determinants if each is clearly used in perception?
A strange metaphor that is culturally shared does not qualify for this cognitive code.
What is DV 1 or 2?
A response reading: “I’m alone, broken, and everyone is attacking me” requires what codes.
What are PER + MOR + AG?