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.