The effect of variations in ambiguity on projection in the Children's Apperception Test.

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50 nine-year-old children traced 10 pictures from Bellak's Children's Apperception Test. Parts of the contours of the pictures were omitted to increase the ambiguity. The amount of projection evoked by these pictures was compared with the amount of projection brought out by fully traced (less ambiguous) pictures. "The pictures with higher ambiguity elicited less projection than the less ambiguous pictures. This difference was shown to be significant well beyond the 1 per cent level." Implications of these results for the development of pictorial projective techniques are pointed out. 18 references. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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