Rorschach Test Character Analysis

In the text Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, the jury began as uncooperative and evolved into a more agreeable jury by the end. The jury started in a state of contradiction and an inability to cooperate. Most jurors only cared to listen to themselves and just wanted to bully other jurors into agreeing with them. They were in a hurry to get out of the deliberation room and just wanted to be done with this case as we can see when Seven said to Ten that “this better be fast” (Rose 88). He just wanted to leave so he could watch a theatrical performance. This proves how little this case meant to him and several other jurors. You can see how they disregard evidence for stereotypes when Ten explained the defendant's supposed lie by saying that the jury “know[s] how [these] people lie… [and] don’t need any real big reason to kill someone either” (Rose 106). He believed that just because the kid was raised in a slum, he would lie and kill ruthlessly. He didn’t believe anyone raised in the slums was above murder and lying. The early jury was a disaster and a disgrace to the justice system, but they slowly began to redeem themselves.

However, it isn't just the jurors' own personal prejudice that affects the way they vote. The prosecution of the boy led the jurors to believe that he was a guilty beyond all doubt. Also, the boy's representation was uninterested and uncaring. ‘I kept putting myself in the boy's place. I would have asked for another lawyer, I think. I mean, if I was on trial for my life I'd want my lawyer to tear the prosecution witnesses to shreds, or at least to try.' [Juror 8, page 14]

Juror 4 is able to remain calm and composed throughout the most stressful of situations. While Juror 10 exhibits racial outbursts; “They get drunk”, “That's the way they are!”, “VIOLENT!”, “These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.” Juror 4 sat through this entire scene without saying a word. It is only until Juror 10’s monologue is finished that Juror 4 speaks, calmly asking Juror 10 to “Shut [his] filthy mouth.” Juror 4 never discredits or implies anything towards the defendant and is always careful of what he says. After Juror 10’s tirade, Juror 4 tries to soften the impact created by 10; “Slums are potential breeding grounds for criminals.” He never attacks or hypes the situation at hand. He draws around ‘potential’ possibilities. Juror 4 initially had his doubts at the start of the case but was the only character that overcame his predisposition based on the analysis of facts and evidence. Rose’s character and only this character had the intelligence, confidence and persistence to keep his head in the tense moment Juror 10 created.

In Act One, in response to a comment about the defendant's story being phony, Juror 10 states, 'You know what you're dealing with.' Here, this juror is assuming that a person like the defendant naturally lies. He follows that later with the statement, 'Look at the kind of people they are. You know them.' In this comment, he is lumping all people like the defendant together and deciding that they are all the same.when the conversation leads into a discussion about a kid killing his father juror 10 continues his prejudice by assuming that the environment to do such a thing.he states “well it's the element they let the kids run wild maybe it serves em right”.he follows with another similar comment “you're not going to tell us were supposed

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when looking at a five year old’s drawing? To them, they see a dragon, but others may see a bunch of lines and colors. This type of question is what led to the proposed question: How does a person's age affect how one interprets images in a Rorschach-like test? Perhaps a child would look at a picture and see a sea monster, but an older viewer would know the image was of an eel. These are the kinds of questions that will be answered in the experiment, in addition to testing one’s personality, rate of development, imagination, and creativity and inductive reasoning skills essential in life can be tested as well.

A boy may die,” and changes his vote to “not guilty” which is another instance where the boy gets a fair trial. The 12th and 7th juror find it difficult to decide on which way to vote and therefore vote “not guilty” so that the boy is not “sent off to die.” The 12th juror’s lack of a defined and consistent point of view reflects America’s post war materialism. The 4th juror believed that the defendant was guilty for most of the play but then was the 2nd last juror to change his vote and admitted that he had a “reasonable doubt.” Although the audience never finds out whether the defendant was “guilty” or “not guilty” the jurors give the “kid from the slums” an honest trial.

many, the word Rorschach is quite unknown and to others it is simply known as the inkblot test and even then, the real meaning of the Rorschach test is never acknowledged. The Rorschach inkblot test is a psychological projective test of personality in which a subject’s interpretation of ten standard abstract designs are analyzed as measure of emotional and intellectual functioning and combination. Also, like other projective techniques, “it is based on the principle that subjects viewing neutral, ambiguous stimuli will project their own personalities onto them, thereby revealing a variety of unconscious conflicts and motivations.” (Aronow; p 25)

The Rorschach test, used first in 1918, has been the center of much controversy in the field of psychology. This particular test uses print inkblots in order to test many factors within clients based on how they answer when asked about the pictures. Although Hermann Rorschach never made it known where he got the idea for the Rorschach test, it is believed it was inspired by the game Blotto, which was a game which used inkblots. The Rorschach test was originally used to test patients with schizophrenia during which Rorschach discovered that these patients responded significantly in a different way from others without schizophrenia. Later, Rorschach began working more with the test using forty inkblots in his original studies but only using fifteen of them commonly with his clients. Today, this test is used by highly trained professionals who are studying personality based on scoring clients’ answers to questions about the inkblots. (Framingham, 2016)

The interpretive procedure, the 4’s, provides a significant structure to organize the key findings of the Rorschach inkblot assessment by modifying and adjusting the interpretations based on idiographic factors. This procedure is categorized into four steps: Scan, Sift, Synthesize, and Summarize. The first step is a brief preemptive step where the assessor scans over the scores in order to look for any extreme scores to give them a better idea of what they might find in the following steps. Sifting is the next step where the clinician carefully goes through all of the results, noting the standard score for each variable, section by section. The purpose of shifting is to formulate a preliminary interpretation by considering each score guided

Juror 3‘s relationship with his estranged son conflicts with the case and how he is intolerant to young kids (ageism) he also believes that a common way of handling conflict in his family has always been with physical

The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test created in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach. The test consists of ten symmetrical inkblots printed on cards which are divided into five black and white and five in color. The Rorschach test is used to inspect the emotional functioning and personality characteristics of the person taking it. It is often employed in diagnosing underlying thought disorders. Also in differentiating psychotic from non-psychotic thinking in cases where the patient is averse to openly admit to psychotic thinking."

Rorschach test shall be interpreted on the basis of only one answer, but refers to the sum total of responses, and also to observe and interpret the patient's behavior during the response to the test. Respondents during the test are looking at the card and need to say what they see, focusing on the entire image or only one aspect, by providing answers or explanation that comes to mind, and all the answers recorded in a test. Content can be interpreted symbolically, and examiners should know how to answer shapes, observation, reasons for this answer or its contents. Researchers often criticize projective techniques because of scarce scientific evidence of their reliability. Critics reliability projective tests cite opposition assessment of various

When the plot is looked at through the Marxist lens, it becomes evident that the final verdict was affected because of the inability of the jurors to interact with each other due to class differences. On top of that, the boy was judged because of his class difference as well. The fourth juror makes known that he is wealthy, the fifth juror had a rough upbringing, and so on.Each juror seemed to be in a slightly different class, which they used this to define themselves. But, by the climax of the play when the eleventh juror responds with “...If you want to vote not guilty, then do it because you're convinced the man is not guilty - not because you've had enough. And if you think he's guilty, then vote that way, or don't you have the guts to

ABSTRACT. While Hermann Rorschach did his he noticed the different responses made by schizophrenic patients while playing with Klecksographie inkblots. And so, he took it upon himself to develope the Rorschach test. Although, it was firstly presented as a diagnostic test for the mentally ill, in 1939, the test became used as a personality test. Over the years, critics have raised questions about the test and centered the critics on three main topics: gender bias answers affects on results, validity, reliability. The original test contained 405 subjects (288 patients; 117 non-patients), 40 pictures (later reduced to 15; today only ten). Five in color, five in black and white. The results were determined by criteria of location, quality, content,

The Rorschach Test is a projective test designed by Hermann Rorschach using ambiguous images. These images are created using randomly placed ink on a white surface, folding it, and creating a mirror image on the other side. What you see is a projection of your personality and inner dynamics. By analyzing what one interprets, you should be able to identify their feelings. Inkblots were first normed by asking fifty people what they see and determining what the five most common images were. One person’s data, after the inkblots were normed, was further analyzed using an abbreviated Rorschach scoring sheet.