ABSTRACT
Attending to experience refers to the manner in which people focus their attention and perceive their environment. As elaborated in chapter 5, good psychological adjustment is facilitated by openness to experience, efficient organization of information, and realistic and conventional perception of events. Conversely, people whose frames of reference are excessively broad or narrow, who process too much or too little information, or who are unwilling or unable to see the world as most people do are at risk for adjustment difficulties. Among Rorschach indices of how people attend to their experience, Lambda stands out as being perhaps the single most important structural variable in the RIM. Lambda sets the tone in many ways for the rest of a protocol, especially when it is unusually high or low, and the level of Lambda has particular implications for how much confidence can be placed in various features of the Structural Summary and for how much can be learned from the thematic imagery in a record.
