World test

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The world test is a projective test procedure in developmental psychology that goes back to Charlotte Bühler . The task is to interpret the pictures presented and to make a selection.

Additional questions round off the personality picture: "Make a selection with regard to the class situation, etc.!"

origin

In clear independence from the psychoanalysis developed Margaret Lowenfeld in 1929 its so-called. World technology. C. Bühler expanded this method into a world test in 1941.

criticism

The world test is considered to be the "best calibrated playing method today" (Höhn (1964), quoted by Flitner, 2002)

literature

  • The world test . German adaptation by Hildegard Hetzer and Elfriede Höhn. Göttingen: Verlag für Psychologie Hogrefe [1955], 27 pages & test material in a case.
  • Learn to play . Andreas Flitner. Weinheim: Beltz [2002]