According to Pervin, a projective test is an instrument that is considered especially sensitive

to covert or unconscious aspects of behavior, permits or encourages a wide variety of subject

responses, is highly multi-dimensional, and evokes unusually rich or profuse response data
with a minimum of subject awareness about the purpose of the test.
Anastasi defined projective techniues as tests in which the client is given a relatively
unstructured task that permits wide latitude in its solution. !he assumption underlying such
methods is that the individual will project his or her characteristic modes response into such a
task.