THEORIES OF PERSONALITY; Theorists have devised many ways to assess personality. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is one of them. You will learn more about this test in the next module. For a little background the TAT was designed to be a projective test where subjects are provided with intentionally vague or ambiguous images that require the use of the imagination to tell a story.
In this module, you will look at an image and tell the story of what you think is happening and take a mock TAT. There is no right or wrong answer. In the next module, we will use a psychoanalytic perspective to review your responses to the questions below from the psychoanalytic lens.
Prompt
Select an image from the Module One Journal Images document and use the Module One Journal Template to answer the following questions. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Identify the image (A–E) that you selected.
- Describe what happened before the image was taken. Your response should be about 2 to 3 sentences in length.
- Describe what is happening in the image. Your response should be at about 2 to 3 sentences in length.
- Describe what the subjects are feeling or thinking in the image. Your response should be about 2 to 3 sentences in length.
- Describe what will happen next. Your response should be about 2 to 3 sentences in length.
Journal One Images; THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
Select one of the following images to complete your Journal One assignment.
Note: The images are titled and attributed; however, they don’t need to influence your story. These images may cause a sense of discomfort or challenge your worldview, but discomfort is not necessarily bad. You should always feel safe in your academic environment, and nothing in this course is intended to be threatening.
Figure A: Street protest
(Disabled And Here as licensed by CC BY 4.0)
Figure B: A group of friends of varying genders gossiping
(The Gender Spectrum Collection as licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Figure C: A nonbinary student talking to a friend in front of their locker
(The Gender Spectrum Collection as licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
Figure D: A genderqueer person comforting a transgender woman on a therapist’s couch
(The Gender Spectrum Collection as licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Figure E: Outdoor fun
(AllGo and photographer Michael Poley of Poley Creative)