Chisom's Psychology Blog

The Neo-Freudians:

• Unlike Freud, Adler believed that childhood tensions were social in nature.
• Horney believe in the social aspect of childhood and countered Freud's assumption that women suffer from "penis envy."
• Jung believed in collective unconscious (common reservoir among humans). 

Projective Test: Used to evaluate the unconscious mind.

• Thematic Apperception Test: (TAT)- by Henry Murry, is a projective test in which people express their feelings by making up stories about ambiguous pictures.

                                          Watch the clip of a young boy being given a TAT test

Rorschach Inkblot Test- by Hermann Rorschach- most widely used- identifies people inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of blots.

Criticism: Critics argue that projective tests lack both reliability (consistency of results) and validity (predicting what it is supposed to be).