HOW TO WRITE A DEFENCE MECHANISM STORY IN Thematic Apperception - TAT or Picture Perception & Description test - PPDT

 Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Your Language is good, you have speed also. Having read much about TAT, how you will be able to write a Desirable story.

Failure and success in TAT, you will not fail if you study and practice it.

“Must be logically answered and be systematically connected and should display consistency and consistent thinking”

Psychological technique evaluates the psyche tests. In this technique inferences are drawn. It is based on projection of thought process that too expressively, adequately, consistently and logically.

TAT requires a Hero. Hero must face the challenges/Risk but should not fail. Depending on the situational crisis hero may face the failure for time being but finally he should succeed.

Failure determines your determination who should be a hero, how hero should be introduced in a story. What is shown is one portion of the event that can be the part of the scene. It is not whole. The obvious is never 100% in TAT. Obvious means whatever is shown on the screen. Here your imagination comes and it strengthens you an opportunity for its exploration and simultaneously for its span and depth. The TAT spells your SOCIAL FACTOR and your social factor is never directly measured. Social adjustment means your ability to adjust globally with every kind of people.

Psychological tests are not ‘FACT BASED’ they are ‘Opinion, Emotions, Value, and an Attitude based. What colour and combination you want to give to your story. Which aspect will dominate. Somewhere value, emotions, helping attitude, sacrifice, faithfulness with full of challenges. For those aspects you are required to go beyond the obvious. Going beyond the obvious will enhance your imagination and the imagination has no prescription.

HOW TO WRITE A DEFENCE MECHANISM STORY: INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS:

a)    Power of expression does not mean English or Hindi, it would only mean the ability to convey the way you want. If you are able to convey whatever is expected from you keeping in mind your socio-economic background then your expression will be termed ok.

b)    When the Hero identification is specific clear, further suiting your situation, crisis or plot and even relevant to it is again ok. Contrary to this when the hero identification is not relevant to the situation then either it will become vague, confused, irrelevant or exaggerated introduction. Resultantly it will not amount to be desirable story.

Exaggerated would mean, when you use superlative degree to your hero, like intelligent, brave, courageous, honest and even do not give pose or impression creating introduction like National Champion, Very Popular, Very Dynamic etc.

c)    What is the task or aim before the hero? (Task means a problem, a crisis, risk, adventure, challenge etc). ‘AIM’ will illustrate a career, a target an achievement that too in a positive context.

d)    Need of a medico for the treatment or operation for the severe disease, then what type of medicine is required (give specification of medicine and disease).

e)    What is the difficulty in finding the medicine, (there you have to create the stress) creating the stress or the degree of difficulty is the direct product of your imagination. Do not create more stress than the stress is required or whatever the particular situation allows to imagine. If no other human help is available then utilise the clue, because imagination does not happen in vacuum but it only exists in clue. The further interpretation of clue in a scene requires, use your observation to find the clue from the situation itself. Situation itself provides the environment, if nothing is there except a house then imagine, what can be expected to be there as situation allows.

I will exemplify as under:

FIRE SCENE - A house is on fire. Nothing is around. No human movement is around except some trees, and Pagdandi will become the clue. This clue explores a village environment and other houses may be at some distance and not shown beside the scene just to give stress to your imagination.

f)     Task has to be justified by the appropriate level of hindrances, obstacles, hurdles, problems and risk etc.

g)    Now the important issue is the selection of resources. It is always appropriate for the hero to use and apply the resources according to the requirement of the situation. The use and the application of the resources, is direct product of your imagination again and again and more importantly is should be instrumental to the story.

h)   I want your Hero to inculcate and display the will to challenge and skill to perform the task at least at the optimum level.

i)     I want your Hero should have will to lead and skill to perform.

j)     First, your hero should have will to lead, will depends on an attitude, with a passage of time attitude will develop the will.

STATUS OF ALL THE THREE TECHNIQUES

TESTS CONDUCTED IN THE SSB DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER BUT THE TECHNIQUE IS SAME: THINK IT OVER!

Start form first day – Picture Perception (Screening) TAT (Psyche Round), Organize/ Condition given by interviewer (PI),  Group Planning Exercise and GTO Outdoor Group Tasks (GTO Series) is the purely test of your imagination, Perception, observation and imagination, Perception, observation is the practical application of your scientific principles.

HOW THESE THREE TECHNIQUE OPERATE:

1 – Psyche

                        You are with only your thoughts process

2 – In IO Technique

                        You are with your thoughts + content of words

3 – In GTO

                        You are with your thought + content of words + in action

HERE THOUGH THIS ARTICLE I WILL TAKE PLEASURE TO DIVIDED YOUR TAT STORIES INTO CATEGORIES

a)    Not desirable

b)    Incomplete

c)    Inconsistent

d)    How the casual behavior

e)    Short term

f)     Long term

g)    Defence mechanism

I reiterate here that TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) is a directionless test. The psychologist does not regulate or punctuate the thoughts of candidates. You are at full liberty to imagine anything.

GURU MANTRA" ALWAYS REMEMBER THESE POINTS

Each particular picture requires your perception, observation and the imagination which demands that :

a)    Who is that man/women?

b)    What has happened with him/her?

c)    What he/she is doing?

d)    How he/she is doing?

e)    How he/she is planning and executing?

f)     What he/she wants to execute?

g)    How he/she is utilizing the manpower and the resources?

h)   How he/she is reaching to the result?

If and when you are able to answer above those questions your PP, TAT, PI and GTO Outdoor Group Tasks will definitely fall under the PARAMETER.

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