Intelligence and the Rorschach Whole Response

Marsden, Gerald

doi:10.1080/0091651x.1970.10380289

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“…Although there has been some disagreement regarding whether production of high-level whole responses is related to intelligence (Friedman & Orgel, 1964), several authors have demonstrated such a relationship with both children and adults. These findings 7--8 years 10-11 years 13-14 years have been based both on developmental level scores (Goldfried, 1962;Kissel, 1965) and on production of complex whole responses (Allison & Blatt, 1964;Marsden, 1970;Rosenblatt & Solomon, 1954). In the present study, only the data for white subjects are consistent with these findings.…”

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“…The responses falling at the genetically more mature end of this continuum have been theoretically related to a high level of intellectual competence. This relationship has been most clearly established with respect to the presence of complex whole responses (Blatt & Allison, 1964;Kissel, 196S;Marsden, 1970;Rosenblatt & Solomon, 1954). In contrast, the responses at the lower end of the continuum have been assumed to be related to developmental immaturity and/or to states of cognitive regression (Friedman, 1953).…”

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Perceptual integration on the Rorschach as an indicator of cognitive capacity: A developmental study of racial differences in a clinic population.

Gerstein¹,

Brodzinsky²,

Reiskind³

1976

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Rorschach protocols of both black and white children from 7 to 14 years of age, who had been evaluated at a child guidance clinic, were rescorcd with respect to developmental level of perceptual integration, It was found that black children had higher perceptual-integration scores in comparison to their white counterparts. This finding, however, was accounted for by the higher performance of low-IQ (70-89) black subjects as compared to low-IQ white subjects. No differences were obtained between average-IQ (90-109) black or white children. It is suggested that standard IQ tests may not adequately tap the cognitive capacity of some black children and that use of the Rorschach from a developmental-structural perspective may provide a useful adjunctive measure of intelligence that would more realistically assess children's cognitive competence.This research was undertaken while the second author was a predoctoral and postdoctoral fellow in child-clinical psychology at the Irving Schwartz Institute for Children and Youth.

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Perceptual integration on the Rorschach as an indicator of cognitive capacity: A developmental study of racial differences in a clinic population.

Gerstein¹,

Brodzinsky²,

Reiskind³

1976

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…Interestingly, W loaded substantially on the Synthesized Complexity factor but did not exhibit significant correlations with IQ scores. This finding is consistent with earlier studies, which have generally reported that well-articulated and synthesized W responses are related to cognitive ability but that other kinds of W responses are not (Acklin & Fechner-Bates, 1989;Allison & Blatt, 1964;Blatt & Allison, 1963;Marsden, 1970). For example, W responses that are vague or lacking in good form quality do not seem to be related to cognitive ability.…”

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Three Factors of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach and their Relationship to Wechsler IQ Scores in an Adolescent Sample

2003

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Principal axis factor analyses of the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS) in a clinical sample of 152 adolescents yielded three clearly defined factors: Synthesized Complexity (defined by Zf, DQ+, and F%), Productivity (defined by R, D, and Dd), and Form Quality (defined by X+%, F+%, and X-%). Variables on the Synthesized Complexity and Form Quality factors were generally correlated with Wechsler Full Scale IQ, Verbal IQ, and Performance IQ scores. Overall, the factors in this adolescent sample replicated factors identified in earlier studies with adults. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.

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“…This article describes the association between a number of Rorschach scores and performance on tests of cognitive ability. There has been a long tradition of exploring the relationship between Rorschach scores and measures of intellectual ability, cognitive functioning, and psychological development (e.g., Acklin & Fechner-Bates, 1989; Allison & Blatt, 1964; Brooks, 1979; Charek, Meyer, & Mihura, 2015; Gallucci, 1989; Goldfried, Stricker, & Weiner, 1971; Greenberg & Cardwell, 1978; Gross, Newton, & Brooks, 1990; Ilonen et al, 2000; Marsden, 1970; Meyer, Erdberg, & Shaffer, 2007; Meyer, Giromini, Viglione, Reese, & Mihura, 2015; Mihura, Meyer, Dumitrascu, & Bombel, 2013; O’Neill, O’Neill, & Quinlan, 1976; Ridley, 1987; Ridley & Bayton, 1983; Smith, Bistis, Zahka, & Blais, 2007; Stanfill, Viglione, & Resende, 2013; Wagner, Young, & Wagner, 1992; Wenar & Curtis, 1991; Wood, Krishnamurthy, & Archer, 2003; Zillmer & Perry, 1996). Although results are not uniform, these studies generally have been consistent in demonstrating that measures of psychological sophistication, including general intelligence and youth age, are positively associated with Rorschach scores indicative of cognitive synthesis, conventionality of perception, articulation of the determinants of one’s perceptions, and embellishing perceptions with activity, particularly human activity (see Mihura et al, 2013, and Stanfill et al, 2013, for reviews).…”

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Neuropsychological Factors and Rorschach Performance in Children

Meyer

2016

Rorschachiana

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Abstract. This study uses an archival data set to correlate Rorschach scores with measures of cognitive functioning in youth, and extends the literature in three ways. First, although Wechsler-based scales of intellectual ability are criteria in the primary sample, correlates with specialized measures of neuropsychological functioning are provided in smaller subsamples, with a focus on tests of perceptual accuracy and perceptual synthesis. Second, absolute levels of cognitive ability are examined, rather than age-adjusted scores, in order to match with the non-age adjusted Rorschach scores. Third, the results expand the relevant research literature on Comprehensive System scores and provide novel data for scores in the Rorschach Performance Assessment System. Findings showed an expected pattern of correlations for Rorschach scores of organizational activity, synthesized responses, perceptual accuracy, conceptual complexity, and complex perceptual representations. The Rorschach scores most correlated with neuropsychological perceptual synthesis skills were those related to perceptual accuracy and those requiring complex perceptual representations, although Rorschach scores tended to be more strongly associated with verbal abilities than with perceptual organizational skills. These data provide further evidence for the validity of selected Rorschach scores and contribute to an understanding of the cognitive characteristics linked to various types of Rorschach responses.

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Intelligence and the Rorschach Whole Response

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Perceptual integration on the Rorschach as an indicator of cognitive capacity: A developmental study of racial differences in a clinic population.

Perceptual integration on the Rorschach as an indicator of cognitive capacity: A developmental study of racial differences in a clinic population.

Three Factors of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach and their Relationship to Wechsler IQ Scores in an Adolescent Sample

Neuropsychological Factors and Rorschach Performance in Children

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