Correct Answer - Option 3 : projective technique
Personality is all that a person is. It is the totality of one's behaviour towards one's own self as well as others. It includes everything about the person, his/her physical, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual make-up
Projective techniques of personality measurement are the tests that are designed:
- to reveal those central aspects of personality that lie in the unconscious mind of an individual.
- to evaluate a person's interests, attitudes pattern of thought, etc while giving responses to ambiguous test materials.
There are different kinds of projective techniques of personality measurement and Thematic Apperception Test is one of them.
Henry Murray, an American psychologist developed the Thematic Appreciation Test.
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A thematic apperception test (TAT) is a projective technique used to investigate a person's unconscious self.
- More specifically, a thematic apperception test can uncover a person's true personality, their capacity for emotional control,
and their attitudes towards aspects they encounter in everyday life (wealth, power. gender roles, racial and religious attitudes, intimacy, etc.).
Thus, it is concluded that Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) of measuring personality is a projective technique.
