Several clinician's look at the TAT results of a hospitalized patient. The patient described the characters on
the card as not speaking to each other. One clinician says this means the patient has a lot of unresolved
anger.
Another says it means the patient has a lot of social anxiety. The third says he thinks it means the
patient is uninterested in people and prefers to be alone. This demonstrates the following problem with the
TAT:
A) the amount of time it takes to score and interpet it.
B) scoring and interpretation is very subjective.
C) the pictures on the cards are old and dated.
D) the lack of training of clinicians on using it.
Question 2
No matter what prisoners try to do, they cannot escape. Eventually they become passive and depressed.
This illustrates the central idea in the ________ theory of depression.
A) behavioral B) depressogenic schema
C) learned helplessness D) attribution
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