Child Apperception Test by Mariver C. Mangulabnan
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The Children's Apperception Test (CAT) is a projective personality test designed for children aged 3 to 10, using ambiguous stimuli such as pictures of animals (CAT-A) or humans (CAT-H) to reveal hidden emotions and internal conflicts. Developed by Leopold Bellak and Sonya Sorel Bellak in 1949, the test is administered by trained professionals and assesses personality, psychological health, and maturity through storytelling prompts based on the images. While the CAT can be useful in various contexts, it faces criticism due to its subjective interpretation and lack of standardized administration protocols.
Child Apperception Test by Mariver C. Mangulabnan
- 1. APPERCEPTION TEST (CAT) MARIVER C. MANGULABNAN MAED-Educational Management August 2019 Projective Techniques
- 2. Meaning A projective test is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts
- 3. Meaning This is sometimes contrasted with a so-called “objective test” in which responses are analyzed according to a universal standard.
- 4. Meaning The Child Apperception Test, often abbreviated as CAT, is an individually administered projective personality test appropriate for children aged 3 to 10
- 5. Meaning The CAT, developed by psychiatrist and psychologist Leopold Bellak and Sonya Sorel Bellak and first published in 1949
- 7. It is based on the picture-story test called the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). The TAT, created by psychologist Henry A. Murray for children (ten years old and older) as well as adults, uses a standard series of 31 picture cards in assessing perception of interpersonal relationships. The cards, which portray humans in a variety of common situations, are used to stimulate stories or descriptions (orally or in writing) about relationships or social situations and can help identify dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, conflicts and complexes. The examiner
- 8. In creating the original CAT, animal figures were used instead of the human figures depicted in the TAT because it was assumed that children from three to ten years of age would identify more easily with drawings of animals. The original CAT consisted of ten cards depicting animal (CAT-A) figures in human social settings. The Bellaks later developed the CAT-H, which included human figures, for use in children who, for a variety of reasons, identified more closely with human rather
- 9. CAT is a projective personality test used to assess individual variations in children's responses to standardized stimuli presented in the form of pictures of animals (CAT-A) or humans (CAT-H) in Meaning
- 10. In a supplement to the CAT—the CAT-S—the stimuli include pictures of children in common family situations such as prolonged illnesses, births, deaths, and separations from Meaning
- 11. The CAT is used to assess personality, level of maturity, and, often, psychological health. The theory is that a child's responses to a series of drawings of animals or Purpose
- 12. The CAT, which takes 20–45 minutes to administer, is conducted by a trained professional—psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, teacher or specially trained Administration
- 13. The test may be used directly in therapy or as a play technique in other settings. Administration
- 14. After carefully establishing rapport with the child, the examiner shows the child one card after another in a particular sequence and encourages the child to tell a Administration
- 15. The examiner may ask the child to describe, for example, what led up to the scene depicted, the emotions of the characters, and what might happen in the future. Administration
- 17. A psychologist or other professional person who is administering the CAT must be trained in its usage and interpretation, and be familiar with the psychological theories underlying the pictures. Because of the subjective nature of interpreting and analyzing CAT results, caution should be used in drawing conclusions from the test results. Most clinical psychologists recommend using the CAT in Precautions
- 18. Older children between the ages of seven and 10 years may feel that the animal pictures in the original version of the CAT are too childish for them. They may respond better to the pictures of human beings available in the Children's Apperception Test-Human Figures (CAT-H), a version of the CAT in which human beings replace animals in the pictures. Precautions
- 19. In a projective test such as the CAT, there is no right or wrong answer. Thus there is no numerical score or scale for the test. The test administrator records the essence of each of the stories told and indicates the presence or absence of certain Scoring
- 20. The CAT's creators suggest a series of ten variables to consider when interpreting the results. These variables include the story's major theme, the major character's needs, drives, anxieties, conflicts, fears, and the child's conception Scoring
- 21. The CAT, as well as other projective measures, has been criticized for its lack of a standardized method of administration as well as the lack of standard norms for interpretation. Studies of the interactions between examiners and test subjects have found, for example, that the race, gender, and social class of both participants Reliability and Validity
- 22. The CAT, which is designed for use in clinical, educational, and research settings, provides the examiner with a source of data, based on the child's perceptions and imagination, for use in better understanding the child's current needs, motives, emotions, and conflicts, both conscious and unconscious. Its use in clinical assessment Suggested Uses
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