Psychological Test, Levy Movement Blots
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: Psychological Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The psychiatrist David M. Levy (1892-1977) and the psychologist Joseph Zubin (1900-1990), both of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, advocated using this set of drawings to study human perception of movement. Levy had introduced the Rorschach ink blot test into the United States and designed these blots as a supplement. They were published in a limited edition by The Psychological Corporation of New York in 1948; this is an example. Levy saw the blots as a way of ranking how much clinical subjects imagined images to represent movements of people and encouraged them to devise stories about them. Zubin saw the blots as useful tools of experiment and requested information about plans to collect data using them.
label: Description
content: The materials include seven cards with black and white images on them. The images were based on finger paintings folded in half to produce mirror images. The cards are marked on the back with Roman numerals. The first is I and X; the second II; the third III; the fourth IV; the fifth V; the sixth VI, VII, and VIII (with the marks in different corners); and the seventh IX. The eighth sheet is a mimeographed “Preliminary Manual for Experimental Work” by Levy and Zubin. The ninth sheet is a mimeographed set of suggestions by Levy entitled “Clinical Use of the Levy Movement Blots.” Finally, there is an eighteen-page exert from a dissertation by Ralph M. Rust entitled “Levy Movement Blots.”
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: “Dr. David M. Levy, 84, A Psychiatrist, Dies,” <I>New York Times</I>, March 4, 1977, p. 33.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Joseph Zubin, 90, Research Psychologist,” <I>New York Times</I>, December 17, 1990, p. 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.18
label: catalog number
content: 316372.18
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 13/32 in x 11 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in