Development/Validity
At it’s core, the Rorschach is what kind of task?
Behavioral. Allows for unique responses in which the enacted responses are an expression of one’s personality features and processing style - “personality in action.”
Prompt for ____ and pull after ____ responses?
Prompt for TWO and pull after FOUR responses
To code movement, the action, process, or tension state must be occurring in the _______.
If your client gives a new response during the clarification phase, you...
Do NOT code the new response
Which variable should you interpret first?
SC-Comp (Suicide Concern Composite), use raw score, 7 = high, 8 = extremely high
Optimizing the number of responses given to the task allows for what?
An interpretable and meaningful protocol - reduces number of times tasks need to be re-administered and keeps protocols to a manageable number of responses to interpret.
How many prompts can be given per card?
Only one prompt per card
True or False - Multiple Cognitive Codes can be assigned per response, as long as you allocate only one Cognitive Code for a single response feature, verbalization, or a single element of cognitive slippage or distortion.
WSumCog (Weighted Sum of the Six Cognitive Codes) is a measure of?
General measure of disturbed and disordered thought. Where can we find the average scores for this?
To strengthen the test’s psychometric foundation, the R-PAS improved upon the variables of the Exner CS by...
Selecting and highlighting variables with strong empirical, clinical, and response process/behavioral representational support while eliminating those with insufficient support.
What happens if your client is familiar with the Rorschach cards or somehow prepared for the test?
You make a clinical decision about whether to proceed and ask the respondent whether he/she is willing to be honest and spontaneous.
When color is an intrinsic feature of the object (ex. “this blood is red”), this type of response is called a ______________
Color-Convergent Response
The main difference between Form Dimension and Vista is that:
Form Dimension includes dimensionality without shading and Vista must have both dimensionality and shading
Which variable is an implicit behavioral measure of oppositionality?
What is the Rorschach particularly good at picking up on what kind of disorders?
Thought disorders
If there are fewer than 15 responses, the examiner must do what?
Go back through and request more responses without re-administering the entire test again.
What is the “two-step” guideline for coding a DR (Deviant Response) circumstantial response? (ex. “A leaping rabbit. I love rabbits. I tease my wife about having rabbit stew when I get home.”)
To code DR for a circumstantial or rambling response, at least two such statements or ideas should be offered and the second one should not be closely related to the Rorschach task.
Code this response (from practice coding 18)! Card I. Response: “Looks like a pelvis, like someone’s anatomy.” Clarification: “It has the outline of a pelvis with two holes in the center (DdS26).
Loc: W, SR: Si, Content: An, FQ: o, Determinant: F; BONUS: Examiner should have clarified “holes” for dimensionality.
Interpretation of variables is based on a combination of what two types of empirical support?
1. demonstrated nomothetic validity in research 2. response process/behavioral representational support from the respondent’s in vivo performance. Page 1 of the Summary Scores and Profiles has more solid research support than page 2.
What is the purpose of the clarification phase?
To resolve coding ambiguities.
Code this response! CARD VI- “It could be a landscape- a valley with a road or river (at D5) running through it.” Clarification: “This just looks like a landscape of trees and then the color makes it look like either a road or a river. This shape gives the impression of a valley in both directions- the shading, lighter color- almost looks like it’s cutaway at the edge of the hills and then the shape of the valley. Probably a road- straight and what appears to be a line down the center- like a dividing line.”
LOC:W, Content: NC, Sy: Sy, FQ: o, Determinant: V.
Code this response from Card IX: Holes that go through here and comes out here. Clarification: Because they’re symmetrical with an opening here and here, so you can put your finger through. The openings are the dark shading underneath that looks like you can peer through it, but you can’t.
Sr, SI, NC, Sy, 2, o, V
Can you interpret all high and low scores, even if the book does not provide a specific interpretation for that range?