ABSTRACT
Hermann Rorschach conceived of his inkblot experiment as a test of perception. As such, he considered deviant response processes in terms of perceptual anomalies as opposed to disturbed linguistic or ideational phenomena. When discussing the "mode of apperception", or location scores, Rorschach presented several atypical ways that subjects could deliver whole responses. Rorschach contrasted imaginative subjects with confabulating ones. He found that imaginative subjects could produce an integrated response without distortion of the individual elements of the blot, while confabulators took two elements of the blot and combined them in such a way that the rest of the inkblot and the relative position of the parts that are used were ignored. Rorschach concluded that patients who have schizophrenia gave many responses in which confabulation, combination, and contamination are intermingled in one response.
