The value of the responses in a completion test as indications of personal traits

Abstract

"The verbal replies in association and completion tests are largely unrelated to the real behavior of the person toward things, people, animals, art, music, beauty, responsibility, etc. The person may be largely influenced by special symbolic and verbal habits. Everything that a person does is revealing, but these verbal replies may reveal relatively little about a person's probable behavior toward real things, events, and relations." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)