INTRODUCTION

An unusual feature of this book is the inclusion of scores for a number of different scoring systems for a common set of practice stories. Appendix I consists of a set of thematic apperceptive stories together with “expert scoring” for each of the scoring systems included in this book with the exception of the Veroff n Power scoring system (chapter 20), and the Origin scoring system (chapter 24). Because the picture cues used to obtain the practice stories did not elicit sufficient imagery of the type coded by these two systems, the reader is referred to appendix I of Motives in Fantasy, Action and Society (Atkinson, 1958a) for practice materials for the Veroff n Power system, and to the latter part of chapter 24 of this volume for practice stories and expert scoring for the Origin system. Appendix III tells how to order additional practice materials for the various scoring systems.

Before using these practice materials the reader is urged to read chapter 37, which makes recommendations about how to learn the scoring systems and how to evaluate one's progress. The remainder of this section of appendix I provides information about the practice stories and then presents the stories themselves.