Thematic Apperception Test

n. A projective test in which subjects are asked to make up stories about 30 provocative pictures in which they detail the motivations of all the persons in the picture as part of their stories. There is no one standard way of scoring the test, and those that have been used have had variable reliability. Despite this, the use of this test in research studies has been widespread, although its use in clinical work has been minor in recent years.