Adult-Child

Interaction Test
By: WAJEEHA NASEER
About ACIT
 PURPOSE

Perceptions
Of adults in
reference to
children

Children’s
perception of
adults
 Age 6 – 65 years No comment should be made other
then telling about the next picture
Individual / group number

With young children Room should be in semi-

individual is preferred darkness
mode of administration
Please write what you
The number on each ADMINISTRATION think about the
succeeding page pictures. It will be like a story
corresponds to the in that you are to tell: (1)
number of picture of the what is going on in the picture
series ( 2) what brought the situation
about; (3) what the outcome
5 minutes should be given will be-what you think the
for each picture people will do next.
 Man & boy are
Gallery Section holding and
examining skull

Young boy look up Little girl sitting in

to a woman who is
standing with her brick door with
hands on her hips pan in her lap

A boy with open Woman standing

book is staring
with two people after boy pointing
dueling at back on book with pen
 Boy with solemn
In either the individual or group expression face
situations questions asked during outward, women
the test as to the content of the with face and head
picture are answered in a flexible lowered
manner. A subject may ask,
"What is the object in this Two smiling figures
picture?“ The administrator may
answer, "Even if you are not sure on the left margin
what it is, whatever you see will
be all right."
Boy sitting with his
chin resting on
hands, with 7
hands surrounding
him
Method
Apperception & Reasoning Motivation & Emotion

Humans are seen in Motivation arise from the

of Analysis.
totality i.e. intellectual & needs
personality component
Focus on how individual Feeling associated with
perceives a situation the need

Individual spend energy to

act or repress the need
A. Apperception & Reasoning
I. Perceptual Approaches
a. Totality
b. Details
A. Apperception & Reasoning (cont.)
II. Reasoning Process
a. Association
1. Variance
2. Invariance
b. Organization of content
appropriateness &
relatedness of content
assigned to stimuli
1. Meaning
2. Reasoning Elements
3. Organizational logic
4. Originality
A. Apperception & Reasoning (cont.)
III. Response to internal &
external stimuli
IV. Problem Solving Approach
a. Control
b. Approach-
avoidance behavior
1. Direct behavior
2. Indirect behavior
B. Motivation & Emotion
I. Drive
II. Emotion
a. Intensity & Range
b. Appropriateness
c. Acceptance of Emotion
d. Thematic Content
e. Type of Conflict
1. Conflict b/w env.
& individual
2. Internal conflict
f. External forces
 STUMILI PROBLEM EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION/ EXTERNAL FORCES
CARD NO. APPROACHES ACTIONS
In Card Added +ve -ve Beneficent Hostile
1

ALL STORIES
USES
 LIMITATIONS
• It is projective test, hence doesn’t have well-established psychometric
properties.
• Sometimes client may need more than 5 minutes to put his ideas into words.
• Those with hampered visual acuity may find it difficult to take the test.