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Listening Activity
This listening and writing activity is designed to help students increase their listening comprehension and practice note taking skills. When I used it with students I read both passages twice as students took notes to parallel with the New York state assessment.
Teacher passages
Rorschach Test
A psychologist administers
a Rorschach test, asking a person to view ink blots and describe what he
or she sees. Based on the person's response, psychologists can learn
something about how the test subject's brain processes visual information.
The Rorschach test was introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist
Hermann Rorschach in 1921. Dr. Rorschach was interested in the field
of psychoanalysis, which is a procedure for investigating the unconscious
mental processes. However, Rorschach was not the first scientist
to experiment with inkblot interpretation. One of his forerunners was Leonardo
da Vinci!
Psychological Testing
Psychologists give the Rorschach test and the Thematic
Apperception Test to help determine traits of a subject's personality.
These tests are based on the idea of projection. In psychological
terms, projection means that a person tends to believe that other people
have his or her feelings or are motivated by the same impulses. The
person projects his own feelings or characteristics onto another person
because they are painful to recognize in himself or herself. In these
tests, a subject projects his own interpretations onto abstract designs
or pictures.
Personality is a person's pattern or thought, feeling
and behavior. The personality amy determine how someone will act
or react to different circumstances.
