Friday, February 26, 2010

Thematic Apperception Test

The Thematic Apperception Test(TAT) is also known as picture interpretation technique.
It is a test where a subject is supposed to look at a card which contains picture and tells a story about it, including what the people in the story were feeling, what happened in the end, what led up to this happening, what was happening at the moment of time. If these points are left out, the person who left out these points would be counted as having a low cognitive ability. The TAT is a projective test like the Rorschach test, the assessment is based on what the subject projects onto the ambiguous images. There are two scoring systems in the Thematic Apperception test.
It is the:
Defense Mechanisms Manual: which assesses the subject's three defense mechanisms. That includes the person's thoughts and feelings into the story they are supposed to project.

Social Cognition and Object Relations: which assesses four different dimensions of object relations: Complexity of Representations of People, Affect-Tone of Relationship Paradigms, Capacity for Emotional Investment in Relationships and Moral Standards, and Understanding of Social Causality.

Usually, the Thematic Apperception test is used to motivate people to choose their occupation, but they are also used to assess personality disorder, thoughts disorder, and forensics to evaluate crime suspects.

10 differences between the Percy Jackson book and the Percy Jackson movie

Difference 1: When Percy Jackson joined "Camp Half-Blood" at the "Half Blood-Hill" in the book, he was still not known as the son of Poseidon. However, in the movie, he was known as Poseidon's son before he entered the "Camp Half-Blood".

Difference 2: When Percy Jackson went to a chalet with his mother at the sea side before escaping to "Camp Half-Blood" in the book. However, he was directly to the camp half-blood when Grover brought him home and informed about his mother about what happened. There was no mention of him being in the chalet with his mother before he proceeded to "Camp Half-Blood".

Difference 3: In the book, Percy Jackson used his sword to kill the Minotaur, but in the movie, he plucked out the Minotaur's horn which was stuck in the tree's base, and used it to kill the Minotaur instead of using his sword.

Difference 4: Percy Jackson was having a private talk with Chiron at that time known to him as a normal teacher, when Miss Dodds called him to have a 'talk' with him in the book. However, in the movie, they were having a group discussion when Miss Dodds called him to have a 'talk' with him.

Difference 5: In the book, Percy Jackson vaporized Miss Dodds in the form of a Fury, however, in the movie, Miss Dodds in the Fury form, managed to escape.

Difference 6: Chiron passed the sword to Percy Jackson at the "Half-Blood Hill" in the book. However, in the movie, Chiron passed the sword to Percy Jackson after the attack by the Fury.

Difference 7: In the book, when Percy Jackson killed Medusa, he sent her head to the Olympians. However, in the movie, he brought along Medusa's head with him.

Difference 8: In the book, Percy Jackson and his friends were supposed to go on a quest to find the underworld, and not find the pearls to get to the underworld. The pearls were given to him by an underwater creature, all three at once. However, in the movie, Percy Jackson was supposed to find the pearls before knowing where the next location is until they find the last pearl and reveal the location of the underworld before they proceed to the underworld.

Difference 9: When Percy Jackson went to see Hades in the book, his wife was not present. However, in the movie, the wife was present.

Difference 10: In the book, Grover, Percy Jackson and Annabeth used the pearls to escape from the underworld while Sally Jackson(Percy Jackson's mother) stays in the underworld. However, in the movie, Sally Jackson(Percy Jackson's mother), Percy Jackson, and Annabeth used the pearls to escape from the underworld while Grover stays in the underworld instead.

Preference: I would prefer the movie version of the story. The story version has more interesting scenes like them using Medusa's head to slat the dragon, when they were on the quest to retrieve the pearls. This was the scene where they were at the museum and spotted the pearl on Athena's statue's crown. The movie let me had a visual feel of the story while the book version did not allow me to feel so. Other than that, the movie version of the story was more humorous than the book. Also in the same scene as the one stated above, how they showed Medusa's head power taking effect was cute. However, there are also good points of the book too, as in the storyline was a little better, as maybe the movie had to change it so as to allow the movie to fit into the time limit or the costs would be huge. Therefore, all in all, I would prefer the movie to the book.

10 Question for the Movie "Avatar"

Question 1: For the part where Jake was fighting his expedition leader in his Avatar form and the expedition leader in his armoured machine. When Jake lost contact with his Avatar at that time, and came back to form as a normal human, how did the Na'vi princess know how to use the oxygen inhaler on Jake?

Question 2: Since the red dragon was the " King of The Skies " why was Jake's take over of it seem so easy without getting injured? Just jumping onto it and connecting the end of his "hair" to the dragons "hair" and just take over it?

Question 3: How can the expedition leader(commander) allow a disabled person to go on the expedition? Isn't he supposed to cure him before he goes for the expedition? It would not be too futuristic as that movie is in the future right? In case anything happens in the real world of the humans, the marines in the capsule can evacuate quickly, but if Jake was on wheelchair, he would not be able to evacuate as fast.

Question 4: Why does the wheelchair Jake used in the movie look so much like a modern day wheelchair? Isn't it supposed to be a futuristic show?

Question 5: Why is it so that in the front part of the movie, Jake always happen to wake up at the right time, as in he was already in the ' Na'vi world ' when the Na'vi princess happen to be awake too, and is that too much of the coincidence? That would be a great change in the plot if it was written in a way that when the Na'vi princess tries to wake Jake's Avatar up and it does not respond, she would already feel that something was fishy at the front of the story.

Question 6: What does the Na'vi tribe eat? It isn't shown in the movie at all if I remember correctly.

Question 7: Why would most of the dragons that do not have an owner stayed so obediently on the cliff? Why would they not be flying around? This would then make the Na'vi's job of taking ownership of one harder right?

Question 8: How were the humans able to find the DNA from the Na'vi tribe? Even if it was from dead Na'vis, the other Na'vis would already have found them invading their territory and chased the out!

Question 9: How did the humans even knew that there was a ore below the land of Pandora?

Question 10: Why were the colleagues of Tommy, Jake's brother, look so normal and do not look sad even after the death of Tommy?