the last two catergory served to validate the authors' assumption that TAT stories would provide personally meaningful material about the storyteller.
The first two categories, although apparently derived from nonpersonal experience-that is, apparentlying about person other than the self-were also felt to have personal significance insofar as the subject selectively remember, or choose to report on, certain stories and event while ignoring other; those that are selected by the subject to report on are assumed to be