Thematic Apperception Test
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http://www.utpsyc.org/TATintro/
Someone sent this to me...have any of you ever taken something like this?
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I haven't but will tonight do you get a score.?
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Yes - several. Better to see what they are at the end.
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The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
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Darn glitches....
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The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
Here's my score. Apparently I am a power hungry aloof achievement seeking (social - ha!) small word using person who is sometimes positive, sometimes negative and doesn't talk about myself. Doesn't actually describe me very well.
LIWC dimension Your data Male average Female average
Need for Achievement 6.54 5.8 5.6
Need for Affiliation 1.05 1.1 1.3
Need for power 3.40 1.7 1.8
Self-references (I, me, my) 0.00 0.5 0.8
Social words 14.14 11.4 12.0
Positive emotions 2.09 1.8 2.1
Negative emotions 2.36 1.5 1.6
Big words (> 6 letters) 14.14 18.7 17.7
Overall, you wrote 382 words in the 10 minutes.
Need for Achievement. The typical person generally scores between 4.5 and 8.5, with an average of 5.7. The higher your number, the more you wrote about achievement-related themes.
Need for Affiliation. Because this picture typically elicits themes associated with achievement, most people don't pay too much attention to human relationships in their story. In fact, the typical person scores around 1.2 on this dimension. Indeed, 30% of participants score 0.00.
Need for Power. Most people score between 0.8 and 2.7, with the average being 1.7. High scores on the need for power dimension hint that the writer is concerned with who is or is not in control andwho has the most status.
One thing that is interesting about this kind of exercise is that language analyses can tell us many things about the writer that go far beyond power, achievement, and affiliation. Look at the table below. In it, you can determine some features of your own writing and can get a sense of your writing style compared with others:
Self-references: People who use a high rate of self-references tend to be more insecure, nervous, and possibly depressed. They also tend to be more honest.
Social words: Social words are words that make reference to other people (e.g., they, she, us, talk, friends). Generally, people who use a high level of social words are more outgoing and more socially connected with others.
Positive emotion words: The more that people use positive emotion words (e.g. happy, love, good), the more optimistic they tend to be. If you feel good about yourself, you are more likely to see the world in a positive way.
Negative emotion words: Use of negative emotion words (e.g., sad, kill, afraid) is weakly linked to people's ratings of anxiety or even neurotic. People who have had a bad day are more likely to see the world through negatively-tinted glasses.
Big words (words with more than 6 letters): Use of big words is weakly related to higher grades and standardized test scores. People who use a high rate of big words also tend to be less emotional and oftentimes psychologically distant or detached.
The Big Picture: The above interpretations should be considered with a grain of salt for your own writing. Your approach to the assignment may have been influenced by people bothering you, concerns about other things in your life, lack of sleep, etc. In addition, it is important to remember that the TAT is generally administered in a highly controlled situation and is always graded by a real-live human being. You will recall from the book that the TAT was devised to tap people's needs for achievement, power, and affiliation. Look at your own writings and see if you can pick up if you were in high in these motives. For example, if you said that one person was thinking about her future career, a TAT expert would probably say that you were higher in a need for achievement than if you said that the person was thinking about her lover (which would hint that you were higher in need for affiliation).
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I wondered that myself--apparently, it analyzes the words chosen according to a preprogrammed set of criteria (see wozeree's post above).
Not sure how accurate it actually is--I remember reading about these years ago in an introductory psych course. I didn't even think that a person scoring this thing would get anything "right", necessarily.
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The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
This was what I wrote:
Your TAT description: Well there is some interesting samples that have just been taken and they are going for further examination. the samples were taken from three blind mice and the experiment is to see if in fact it is masturbation that made the mice go blind. The experimental procedure will involve the samples being shaken, not stirred and then mixed with polo mints. The polo mints are only to make the end product smell sweeter, as what is left over will be used as very expensive perfume and sold on the black market to angry bishops. The lady and the gentleman dressed as a lady who are performing the initial experiment are no more than waiters from McDonalds restaurant. The Department brought them in at the last minute because they was very short staffed after an outbreak of VD spread around the laboratory last Thursday. The VD was brought in as a result of another experiment went horribly wrong. It involved a mermaid and a toffee apple. The mermaid ate the toffee apple and then when a pip got stuck in her tooth she vomited green and orange rainbow drops out of her left ear. They are still puzzled as to how that related to the outbreak of the VD, but it did. Anyway there was no mice hurt during the experiment and it all went well. The mice have since regained the use of one eye at the expense of the use of one ear.
This is my score:
LIWC dimension
Your data
Male average
Female average
Need for Achievement 2.87 5.8 5.6
Need for Affiliation 0.00 1.1 1.3
Need for power 0.00 1.7 1.8
Self-references (I, me, my) 0.00 0.5 0.8
Social words 5.33 11.4 12.0
Positive emotions 0.41 1.8 2.1
Negative emotions 2.05 1.5 1.6
Big words (> 6 letters) 19.26 18.7 17.7
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We have existence
Someone sent this to me...have any of you ever taken something like this?
I did.
was looking at my test scores today and for this one it says they stopped the test prematurely after I became increasingly agitated. It was also the one they intended filming me whilst I did it but I got so stressed by the idea of being filmed they refrained in the end. Had not been warned about the filming, might have reacted differently as it is one of those things I would mentally prepare for.
Only 5 pictures were shown apparantly and I have no recollection of them after seeing the pictures online today. Only the last picture I vaguely remember if I stretch.
The picture with the two scientists has me thinking of marie currie inventing penicillin and the
guy would be her assistant. End of story. It becomes painful on a mental level to concoct a
story beyond that.
I had the TAT in assessment,
I was not able to make stories,
just described features of the pictures, like colour contrast, objects and stuff, do not remember so well anymore.
I do remember that assessing woman was asking "what could he think in this situation" or "what could she think in this situation" and "what could he do next" or "what could she do next" or "what could have happened before", and other stuff I do not remember but I had no answers to these.
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English is not my native language, so I will very likely do mistakes in writing or understanding. My edits are due to corrections of mistakes, which I sometimes recognize just after submitting a text.
This is my TAT-report:
"The affective and intentional elaboration of the story is always missing.
Patient cannot give a storyline.
Limited mentalization-ability."
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English is not my native language, so I will very likely do mistakes in writing or understanding. My edits are due to corrections of mistakes, which I sometimes recognize just after submitting a text.