Tat scoring
- 1. TAT Scoring
- 2. Hello! I am Mustasan Naeem Rollnumber 17756 Mphil Cilinical Psychology Riphah International University Faisalabad 2
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- 4. SEQUENCE ✣ Introduction ✣ Rationale ✣ Scoring Categories ✣ Perceptual Organization ✣ Perceptual Range ✣ Perceptual Personalization 4
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- 6. iNTRODUCTION 6 Clinical use of the TAT has been largely restricted to content analysis by the plethora of cumbersome scoring systems currently available. That scoring systems should be simple, objective, employ stimulus properties of the TAT cards and be related to personality theory is becoming empirically evident.
- 7. rationale 7 Discussion of the approach to personality theory which antedated the rationale for TAT scoring is not appropriate here. However, there are at least three aspects of test behavior to be considered in devising objective scoring systems:-
- 8. Rationale continued… 8 ✣ Approach to the situation (reflected, for example in the manner standard test directions are followed). ✣ Normality of responses (abstractions of structural and content material included by specified percentages of “normal” Subjects. ✣ Rarity of responses (those in frequent responses in a “normal” population which appear with significantly higher frequency in psychopathological conditions).
- 9. SCORING CATEGORIES Perceptual Range PR Perceptual Organization PO Perceptual Personalization PP 9
- 10. Perceptual Organization (PO) 10 ✣ Card Description ✣ Present Behavior ✣ Past Events ✣ Future Events ✣ Feeling ✣ Thought ✣ Outcome
- 11. PO Scoring Directions 11 You are scoring to see how closely the subject followed the original test directions. Score sheets are provided (Appendix A Male & Female) which are used to record PO, PR and PP scores. The score sheet contains a list of the seven components (abbreviated as CD, PB, PE, FE, F, T and O respectively) and spaces to record presence or absence of each component for each card used.
- 12. Card Description (CD) 12 Physical description includes describing the two or more things or persons actually present in the picture. It may be a listing such as, "This is a man, a woman, a tree , etc.
- 13. Present Behavior (PB) 13 Present Behavior is any activity or behavior that occurs in the present or is in the process of occurring within the picture.
- 14. Past Events (PE) 14 Past Events tell things, events, situations which have taken place in the past, i.e., before the time of the scene pictured on the card and described in the story.
- 15. Future Events (FE) 15 Things, events, situations which will take place or do take place in the future, i.e., after the time of the scene pictured on the card and described in the story.
- 16. Feeling (F) 16 Any expression of feeling or emotion on the part of the characters present in the story.
- 17. Thought (T) 17 This includes any expression of thought, memory, dream or allied mental state present in the story, for example decision, belief, realization, knowing, praying, figuring, etc.
- 18. Outcome (O) 18 Outcome is the inclusion of a specific statement which indicates the ending, denouement, finale or conclusion of the story.
- 19. Empirical evidence has been used to establish criteria as to content a group of “normal” Subjects will include in their TAT stories a given percentage of the time. Three separate stimulus properties were chosen for each card on the basis of inclusion by approximately 90 percent or more of this "normal" group. Perceptual Range (PR.) 19
- 20. The 15 stimulus properties for males are 20 PR Scoring Direction Family, young girl, woman, activity specified, adult male Fields or farm Books or school
- 21. The 15 stimulus properties for males are 21 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Figure, sex and age specified Emotions noted Activity specified
- 22. The 15 stimulus properties for males are 22 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Male emotions noted, activity specified Woman activity specified Conflict or cooperation
- 23. The 15 stimulus properties for males are 23 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Man; emotions noted, activity specified Woman emotions noted Personality referent
- 24. The 15 stimulus properties for males are 24 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Older male, activity, relationship specified Male emotions noted Personality referent
- 25. The 15 stimulus properties for females are 25 PR Scoring Direction Family, young girl, activity specified, woman, adult male Fields or farm Books or school
- 26. The 15 stimulus properties for females are 26 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Female Emotions noted, activity specified Story, death, murder, illness, frustration
- 27. The 15 stimulus properties for females are 27 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Male, emotions noted, activity specified, woman, activity specified Conflict or cooperation
- 28. The 15 stimulus properties for females are 28 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Male, activity indicated Female emotions noted Relationship indicated
- 29. The 15 stimulus properties for females are 29 PR SCORING DIRECTION continued… Adult female, activity specified emotions noted Child, female, emotions noted Relationship specified
- 30. Perceptual Personalization (PP) Some expression, words and phrases used in the story are incongruous and have no obvious reference to the story that Subject is trying to relate. 30
- 31. Scoring Directions These words and phrases include all questions and remarks concerning the way the subject feels about his performance, the picture and himself. ✣ Adequacy of performance ✣ Qualification ✣ Picture criticisms ✣ Vagueness and evasion ✣ Personal reference 31
- 32. Questions: “ls that a boy or a girl?" “What’s that supposed to be?” Adequacy of performances: “I can’t figure that one out”.
- 33. Qualifications: “Wait a minute….” “It’s not really that at all.”
- 34. Picture Criticism: “This picture is silly”. “There is no point to this at all".
- 35. Parenthetical Comments: “That’s about all on that”, “There is not much connected with it”.
- 36. Adventitious Descriptive Comments: Any remarks just thrown in without apparent connection to the rest of the story. These remarks often pertain to physical description of the picture, or the people in it.
- 37. Vagueness and Evasion: "or………or'," “either………..or,” “more or less” “or something…..whatever it is.”
- 38. Personal Reference : Any reference to “I”, any inclusion of personal information which is identified to the subject.