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    The document describes the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a projective psychological test developed by Henry Murray. It lists 14 cards used in the Indian adaptation of the TAT along with their usage. It then provides information on the rationale behind the TAT, describing it as a way to assess a person's dynamic personality organization and how their personality interacts with their environment based on their needs, drives, and reactions to pressures. Finally, it lists 28 needs and several presses that the TAT aims to interpret through a person's responses to the cards.

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    The document describes the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a projective psychological test developed by Henry Murray. It lists 14 cards used in the Indian adaptation of the TAT along with their usage. It then provides information on the rationale behind the TAT, describing it as a way to assess a person's dynamic personality organization and how their personality interacts with their environment based on their needs, drives, and reactions to pressures. Finally, it lists 28 needs and several presses that the TAT aims to interpret through a person's responses to the cards.

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    The document describes the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a projective psychological test developed by Henry Murray. It lists 14 cards used in the Indian adaptation of the TAT along with their usage. It then provides information on the rationale behind the TAT, describing it as a way to assess a person's dynamic personality organization and how their personality interacts with their environment based on their needs, drives, and reactions to pressures. Finally, it lists 28 needs and several presses that the TAT aims to interpret through a person's responses to the cards.

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    TAT- UMA CHAUDHARY

    TOTAL CARDS IN TAT INDIAN APDAPTATION= 14

    CARDS AND THEIR USAGE:

    CARD 1 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 2 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 3 BM- MALE/BOY

    CARD 3 GF- FEMALE/GIRL

    CARD 4 BM- MALE/BOY

    CARD 4 GF- FEMALE/GIRL

    CARD 5 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 6 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 7 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 7 ADDITIONAL CARD- UNIVERSAL

    CARD 8 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 9 UNIVERSAL

    CARD 10 UNIVERSAL

    BLANK CARD

    Personality assessment

    Semi-projective

    Henry Murray

    RATIONALE OF TAT

    Dynamic organization personality

    Personality interaction with environment

    Need and press- drive within individual origin from motivation derived from needs and desires.

    28 needs

    Press- forces in person’s environmental circumstances causing pressure

    Apperception- perception based on pre-formed perception.

    Thema- Interaction between needs and presses

    TAT also interprets:

    1. Affect of the individual


    2. Affect and coping tensions
    3. Unrealistic coping mechanisms
    4. Object relations
    5. Motivation
    6. Self-regulation

    About blank card-

    REJECT IF PERSON HAS GIVEN ANY RESPONSE

    CATERS TO CULTURE FREE ASPECTS

    Needs’ force and how it is organized-

    1. Perception
    2. Apperception
    3. Intellectuality
    4. Conation
    5. Action

    Embellishment

    Need analysis includes:

    1. Achievement
    2. Affiliation
    3. Aggression
    4. Autonomy
    5. Blame avoidance
    6. Obeyance
    7. Conservance- collection, repair, preserve, protest against damage
    8. Counter reaction- to overcome from weakness/failures by self, defensive
    9. Defendancy- to defend self against assault, criticism and blame
    10. Deferance- to follow a superior, serve, admire a superior, support superior
    11. Dominance
    12. Exhibition- To attract attention
    13. Exposition- to provide information adequate or to relate facts
    14. Harm avoidance- to avoid pain, illness and death
    15. Infavoidance- to avoid failure, shame, humiliation
    16. Nurturance-
    17. Orderance- to put things in order, to achieve neatness, cleanliness, arrangement, organization
    18. Play- to relax, have fun, play games, laugh and joke
    19. Recognization- approval and social status
    20. Rejection- to separate oneself from a negativity
    21. Sentience- to enjoy sensuous things- senses
    22. Libido- to form and enjoy erotic relationship
    23. Similance- empathy- identifying with other’s problem
    24. Succorance- to protect or sympathy
    25. Understanding- to analyse and experience, to seek knowledge
    26. Passivity- to enjoy relaxation and sleep
    27. Intra-aggression- to commit suicide, to punish himself physically. example depression, psychotic, BPD
    28. Cognizance- to ask question, to satisfy curiosity, to read and seek knowledge
    29. Construction- to organize and build
    30. Retention- to refuse to give or to retain position of things

    Press includes:

    1.

    Nurturance

    Succorance

    What would have happened

    What is happening

    What will happen in future

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