When anna looks at some modern artwork at the museum, she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them. when she tells the stories to her friend, her friend says that the stories reflect anna's unconscious thoughts. in psychological terms, what anna does is most similar to

The answer is "a projective test".

A projective test is a kind of identity test in which you offer reactions to vague scenes, words, or pictures. The objective of such tests is to reveal the concealed clashes or feelings that you anticipate onto the test with the expectation that these issues would then be able to be tended to through psychotherapy or other suitable medicines.