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projective

projective

2 7.5
Relating to making images and showing them, for example in maths and psychology
  • adjective
  • /prəˈdʒɛktɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : proyectivo
  • In mathematics, projective geometry explores properties that are invariant under projection.
  • projective test
  • projective technique
  • projective identification

Plans are by definition projective and propositional.

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Examples

  • The exercise was designed as a projective test that would reveal individual participants' pay-for-performance norms.

    Academic text (1995)

  • To that end, it provides opportunities to develop, approach, and test projective therapeutic hypotheses.

    Academic text (2007)

  • So we are now using a projective measurement.

  • As the home tree person drawing test is a projective test, it was interpreted by two researchers.

    Academic text (2009)

  • While the option is indeed projective, it seems to entail more than necessary.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Plans are by definition projective and propositional.

    Harvard University

  • As a visualization of a fundamentally changed world, it should be regarded as projective rather than mimetic.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Assessment measures used in those studies included projective tests, personality inventories, self-reports, sexual functioning rating scales, and IQ tests.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The second group comprised 251 respondents who answered the projective lottery question (the low-social-desirability group).

    Academic text (2002)

  • Hence, the bewildering array of ways of measuring it ranges from projective techniques to cognitive and pen-and-paper questionnaires.

    Academic text (1995)

Compounds

projective geometry
  • Specialized
1 9.3

A part of geometry that studies what stays the same for points and lines when you change the view

projective test
  • Specialized
1 8.3

A way to find a person's personality by asking them about unclear pictures to show hidden feelings

projective device
  • Specialized
9.9

A test that asks people to say what unclear pictures or situations show to reveal hidden feelings

projective technique
  • Specialized
8.5

A method in psychology where people describe unclear pictures to show hidden feelings

Surface Forms

projective positive

Morphology

projective = project (semi-transparent) = project + ive

Regular adjective formation from the verb 'project' with suffix '-ive', but the term often has specialized senses (e.g., in mathematics) that may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Projective comes from Latin parts pro- 'forward' and ject 'throw', and you can see the same idea in the common word project. So something projective 'sends' or 'throws' an image or idea forward, which is why projective tests make people 'send out' feelings onto pictures and why projective geometry studies images shown by projection.