apperception

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The Rorschach inkblot test was in use, as were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a 567-item questionnaire, and the Thematic Apperception Test, developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

They are taught in psychology, education and business courses, and featured in textbooks like “A Practical Guide to the Thematic Apperception Test” and “Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

Even Henry Murray, a director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic and co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test , attributed his understanding of narcissism to Herman Melville, “the greatest depth psychologist America ever produced.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

In 1969, Mrs. Horner ran representative groups of Radcliffe students through a Thematic Apperception Test; she discovered that more than 75% "showed evidence of high fear of success."

From Time Magazine Archive

What was called Apperception in the earlier chapter seems to have been taken away with the hemispheres.

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark