Draw-a-Person test

n. A projective test in which the subject is asked to draw a person on a blank sheet of paper and then is asked to draw a person of the opposite sex (to the first drawing) on another blank sheet of paper. The subject is then asked to indicate the age, educational level, fears, and ambitions of the people portrayed in each of the drawings. The drawings are variously interpreted but often with the supposition that acceptable impulses are projected onto the same-sex drawing and unacceptable impulses onto the opposite-sex drawing.