Talk:Blacky pictures test

Article Name

I think the title of the article may be inappropriate, as it's about the test not just the test materials. If a material or an author produces a test, the name of that test becomes, in its entirety a proper noun, thus with upper-case letters. I think that Thematic Apperception Test and Holtzman Inkblot Test are correct, but Rorschach test is currently incorrect. e.g. [1] So I suggest a move to "Blacky Pictures Test" - see this source: [2] Martinevans123 (talk) 09:43, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Support! Lova Falk talk 09:57, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Now done, as seemingly uncontroversial. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:53, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Presenting fringe/discredited hypotheses as fact

The anonymous contributor whose message was deleted did have a point (although they way they expressed it looked like a forum post and I understand why it was deleted). The article says Freud "constructed five stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. It is generally agreed that the interaction between nature and nurture affects how a child progresses through these stages which, in turn, reflects the outcome of individual personality characteristics". The stages described by Freud are not part of present mainstream developmental psychology, and the source given is a 1986 source which summarises three different theories of development that were old even then. Freud's legacy has been totally re-evaluated in the intervening time, and there is now even less excuse to present his hypotheses as though they have been accepted by an academic consensus. I'm not sure what to do with the "It is generally agreed..." sentence. I'm probably going to delete the whole sentence for now. The lead and final section are explicit that this test is not still used today, but ideally, to avoid misleading the reader, we should have some warning that the phases posited by Freud are not taken seriously by present science. It would be good to have an expert on developmental psychology to guide us on the present consensus. MartinPoulter (talk) 20:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)