projective device

1. 1.

   any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations

   Synonymsprojective testprojective technique

   Broaderpersonality test

   NarrowerRorschachThematic Apperception Test

Questions about projective device

What does projective device mean?

projective device means "any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations".

What is another word for projective device?

Close synonyms include projective test, projective technique. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is projective device a common word?

projective device is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.