Projective Tests in Psychological Assessment — The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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3 min readSep 3, 2021
Shortly after the turn of the century, Binet and Simon used children’s verbal responses to pictures as tests of their cognitive abilities (Rabin, 1968). This approach to studying psychological functioning was formalized by Morgan and Murray (1935) in their publication of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). The TAT consists of a set of 20…
