What Is It That Color Determinants Determine? The Relation Between the Rorschach Inkblot Method and Cognitive Object-Recognition Processes

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Table 1 The colors used for the objects in the congruent and incongruent conditions.

	Orange	Yellow	Green	Red	Brown	Dim Purple
Congruent version	Orange	Lemon	Avocado	Tomato	Potato	Eggplant
	Carrot	Banana	Cucumber	Chili
Incongruent version	Tomato	Avocado	Eggplant	Lemon	Orange	Potato
	Cucumber	Chili	Carrot	Banana

Table 2 Experiment 1: Means and standard deviations of reaction times as a function of the three object-naming congruency conditions crossed with two blocks.

	Block 1		Block 2		Across Blocks
Condition	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Congruent	860	160	775	65	816	96
Achromatic	909	135	857	108	883	100
Incongruent	1,014	183	878	115	946	120
Note. N = 15.

Table 3 Experiment 2: Means, standard deviations, skewness, and kurtosis for color determinants and reaction times of the three object-naming congruency conditions.

Condition	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Color Determinants
FC	1.07	1.29	1.00	−0.07
CF	1.00	1.19	1.02	−0.08
C	0.25	0.65	3.04	9.55
FC – (CF + C)	−0.18	1.45	−0.11	−0.09
Object-Naming Task
Congruent	915	188	1.28	11.68
Achromatic	992	180	1.70	4.86
Incongruent	1089	204	1.32	2.70
Congruency effect	174	156	−0.32	2.96
Note. N = 59.

Table 4 Experiment 2: Means and standard deviations of reaction times as a function of the three conditions of the object-naming task crossed with three Color-Ratio conditions.

	Form Dominant FC > CF + C ^a		Direction FC = CF + C ^b		Color Dominant FC < CF + C ^c
Condition	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Congruent	865	122	961	269	916	148
Achromatic	907	103	1,046	223	1,012	173
Incongruent	979	123	1,108	168	1,153	245
Congruency effect	114	145	147	166	236	137
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Table 5 Experiment 2: A correlation matrix of the object naming congruency effect with three Rorschach scores involving color: FC – (CF + C), the Affective Ratio (Afr), and the Weighted Sum of Color (WSumC).

Scale	WSumC	Afr	FC – (CF + C)
Afr	.19
FC – (CF + C)	–.33*	–.01
Congruency effect	.08	.10	–.25*