thematic apperception test
Date1943
Inventory NumberWJ1148
ClassificationPsychological test
Subject
Author
Henry Murray
1893 - 1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press
1913-present
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions28.5 x 24 x 1.5 cm (11 1/4 x 9 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
grey board box: 8.3 × 25.1 × 33 cm (3 1/4 × 9 7/8 × 13 in.)
grey board box: 8.3 × 25.1 × 33 cm (3 1/4 × 9 7/8 × 13 in.)
Material
DescriptionLarge rectangular folder containing thirty-one cardboard cards and one instruction booklet. All but one of the cards contain an image from a drawn, painted, or photographic source. See racially altered version of this test in WJ1149.
Handwritten in pencil on the cover: "AM 588". Printed on the manual: "Thematic Apperception / Test MANUAL / By Henry Murray, M.D. and the staff of the Harvard Psychology Clinic."
Handwritten in pencil on the cover: "AM 588". Printed on the manual: "Thematic Apperception / Test MANUAL / By Henry Murray, M.D. and the staff of the Harvard Psychology Clinic."
Signedon cover: Harvard University Press / Cambridge Massachusetts
FunctionTest to uncover the "dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and conflicts of a personality," as written on the first page of the booklet.
ProvenancePsychology Department, William James Hall, Harvard University.
J. Murray Mitchell
Date: 1947
Accessories: 2 small prints of drawing, drawing (possibly original)
Object number: 1998-1-1073
Office of the Surgeon General
Date: 1919
Object number: WJ1156
The W. M. Welch Scientific Company
Date: 1930
Object number: WJ1162
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