[Coding/Determinants] Determinants

Aliases

Determinants
determinant coding
movement
chromatic color

Definition

Determinants code what aspect of the blot makes the response look the way it does. They do not code what the person sees, but why it appears that way: form, movement, color, shading, reflection, or dimension.

Conditions

The coding decision must be based on the person's words and inquiry, not on free examiner inference.
A response may contain more than one determinant if the person actually uses more than one blot feature.
When a complex response combines determinants, code them in the order they appear in the response phase.
In the currently authored set, the main axes are movement scoring-input/determinants/M, scoring-input/determinants/FM, scoring-input/determinants/m, chromatic color scoring-input/determinants/FC, scoring-input/determinants/CF, scoring-input/determinants/C, color naming scoring-input/determinants/Cn, achromatic color scoring-input/determinants/FC', scoring-input/determinants/C'F, scoring-input/determinants/C', texture scoring-input/determinants/FT, scoring-input/determinants/TF, scoring-input/determinants/T, vista scoring-input/determinants/FV, scoring-input/determinants/VF, scoring-input/determinants/V, diffuse shading scoring-input/determinants/FY, scoring-input/determinants/YF, scoring-input/determinants/Y, pure form scoring-input/determinants/F, reflection scoring-input/determinants/Fr, scoring-input/determinants/rF, and form-based dimension scoring-input/determinants/FD.

Cautions

Determinants do not replace scoring-input/fq or location; those are separate coding axes.
In chromatic color, the key question is whether form or color carries the main weight. That distinction separates FC, CF, and C.
In achromatic color, the same logic reappears with FC', C'F, and C', but the relevant cue is black, white, or gray functioning as color.
Cn is not full color responding. It marks color naming without true determinant-level color use.
In movement, the key question is what kind of action is attributed: human, animal, or inanimate.
In texture, vista, and diffuse shading, the key question is whether form leads, the sensory quality leads, or form is too weak for a mixed code.
Texture, vista, and diffuse shading should not be collapsed into one broad shading family. They separate tactile surface, depth/relief, and vague shaded experience.
In pure form and reflection coding, the key question is whether the response depends only on shape, on mirror/reflection quality, or on depth created by formal arrangement.
The same word should not be coded twice to justify multiple determinants of the same type.
Black, white, or gray wording alone is not enough for achromatic color coding; it has to function as color rather than as shading, vista, or diffuse darkness.
Interpretive use of these codes is reviewed later in variables such as result-interpretation/lower-section/affect/FC_CF_C, result-interpretation/lower-section/affect/PureC, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/Lambda, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/SumCprime, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/SumT, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/SumV, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/SumY, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/FM, result-interpretation/lower-section/core/m, result-interpretation/lower-section/selfPerception/Fr_rF, or result-interpretation/lower-section/selfPerception/FD.