| projective techniques | Techniques whereby personality attributes are revealed through the subject's responses to relatively unstructured, ambiguous, or vague stimuli. These responses represent projections of the subject's own fears and needs. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| projective test | A loosely structured psychological test containing many ambiguous stimuli that require the subject to reveal his own feelings, personality, or psychopathology in response to them; e.g., Rorschach test, thematic apperception test. (05 Mar 2000) |