Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 177 p.)
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Series Statement:
American lecture series American lectures in psychology no. 230
Content:
"Critical observers do not seem to rate highly the validity of any projective method, as method. Certainly the present authors make no such claims for Sentence Completion. It is a question of what you, as a user, can make of the method. These authors have, with freely expressed purpose, discouraged the user who depends much on predigested formulae of any sort. They lay more stress on talent in the examiner; his capacities for sympathy and empathy. They are optimistic about ease of acquiring the method, with justice, one hopes. But it makes the intellectual demands on qualities said to be needed by the successful cryptanalyst: wealth of imaginative power; exceptional capacity for close, sustained application, and for back-and-forth reasoning between abstract and concrete. "Sharp and powerful" in the authors' phrase, Sentence Completion suggests rather those legendary weapons which are resistless when valiantly wielded, but turn again to smite and shame those who bear them unworthily. In personal conversation, the most critical judge in the field I know, rated the sentence completion procedure as the foremost of the psychodiagnostic techniques; but on that account it could the more mislead you and those you counselled, if you used it rashly or imperceptively. The aim of this volume is that Sentence Completion shall serve the psychodiagnostician well"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2011 dcunns
Language:
English
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