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Perspectives 2- Higginbotham
Personality (PY 370)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Perspectives on Personality: The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) in Action
After watching the videos of each of the TAT administrations, answer the following questions:
- Consider each of the individual’s responses. Do you see any themes that emerged from the stories they told? If you were to say anything about their personalities based on what you saw, what might that be?
Cece: She took negatives into positives with each story. She is very descriptive in her story-telling and was able to talk about difficult topics like having a bad day and sexual assault. Cece is very optimistic and wants to turn negatives into positives and have happy outcomes.
Glendy: Glendy was difficult to get more details from and had to pry to get it out of her. Her stories had negatives and were very short. Glendy seemed very shy and quiet and like she didn’t want to answer incorrectly despite the answers being up to her own creation.
Sarah: Her stories were very descriptive, but did not have either a negative or positive aspect. They seemed like instances that happen in every-day life. Her story-telling allowed me to see that Sarah has a realistic perspective on life.
Kenya: Kenya showed her age and experience through her story-telling. Her stories were very creative and happy, but also all over the place with her details. She was elaborate, but made sense based on her age.
Evelyn: Evelyn paid more attention to the details of the picture and focused on that. The word “maybe” was used a lot and never told a completed story. She told the stories in hypotheticals of what could have happened by putting together pieces and options.
- Now consider the process of their storytelling, apart from the content of their stories, per se. Did you see any differences between the ways in which they developed their stories, the level of detail in their stories, how they began or ended, how certain or tentative they were in their telling, or how much they described the feelings or thoughts of the characters in their stories? What might any of these differences say about the differences in their personalities or personality styles?
Cece’s stories started sad, but ended happy. Glendy and Evelyn were similar in that they did not start with many details and were both very timid. Sarah and Kenya were descriptive in their story-telling. Evelyn did not focus on the feelings of the characters like the others, especially Cece. Glendy is the opposite of Cece as she is not as hopeful like Cece. Sarah and Kenya are very descriptive as opposed to Evelyn who can’t focus on the smaller details of a story.
- Identify any three dimensions of personality that might distinguish these individuals and say something about where they might fall along those dimensions. For example, would you see them differing in their levels of extroversion, creativity, emotional availability, assertiveness, conventionalism, achievement motivation, openness to experience, or any other dimensions you could think of? Who do you think might be highest and who might be lowest along each of the three dimensions you choose.
Dimensions:
1.Conscientious-highest would be sarah and lowest would be Kenya._________________________________________________________________
- Extroversion- highest would be Kenya and lowest would be Glendy__________________________________________________________________
Perspectives 2- Higginbotham
Course: Personality (PY 370)
University: University of Alabama at Birmingham
