Psychogram

<p>Psychogram is a term sometimes used in fields within <a href="/facts/Psychology/duoqW7Sz">psychology</a> such as <a href="/facts/Personality/zdkhBU5V">personality</a> theory and <a href="/facts/Perception/xLK0n2q4">perception</a> as well as <a href="/facts/Graphology/fXJcgr1n">graphology</a> and handwriting analysis, although the term has multiple senses, many of them outdated, and none of the senses of the term are defined clearly or used consistently.
</p><p>One sense of the term is from psychological research in the middle of the twentieth century, meaning a composite psychological measurement which attempts to integrate various elements of a person's thought processes, often a diagram, usually in the form of a circle. According to one source, in this sense, a psychogram denoted "not the sum of elements but their interrelationship" as a way to reduce "complex happenings to a simple design which enables the individual to make his decision." The term was used by a few psychologists such as Daniel S. Anthony in the 1960s, <a href="/facts/PMID_(identifier)/JlHAvMHt">PMID</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13659290">13659290</a> It was used as a visual representation or "map" of an individual's <a href="/facts/Personality/zdkhBU5V">personality</a>. The term never caught on within the mainstream psychological academic establishment, possibly because there was no consistent sense of what psychograms were or how they should be used. There is a different, yet slightly related sense of the term, which refers to a specific system of handwriting analysis in the field of <a href="/facts/Graphology/fXJcgr1n">graphology</a>. A third sense of the term has less emphasis on measuring personality and more on measuring psychological perception, with the term being used in conjunction with the <a href="/facts/Rorschach_test/1Dh3htQL">Rorschach inkblot projection technique</a>, so that the scores on various measures following a Rorschach test are combined into a summary of all the scored responses, called a psychogram. There are other senses which appear sporadically and which are not used consistently. For example, the term has been used in a few book titles; the psychology department of <a href="/facts/Illinois_State_University/UmLM55r5">Illinois State University</a> used the term as the title of a newsletter; it was used to describe a type of poetry. The term appeared briefly in 1896 in connection with early vision experiments regarding <a href="/facts/Perception/xLK0n2q4">perception</a>.
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