What will be measured through the ‘Children Apperception Test' administered by a teacher to a group of students?

Personality is all that a person is. It is the totality of one’s behaviour towards one’s own self as well as others. It includes everything about the person, his/her physical, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual make-up. 

• Projective techniques of personality measurement are the tests that are designed to reveal those central aspects of personality that lie in the unconscious mind of an individual.

Key Points 

'Children Appreciation Test' or 'CAT' is a kind of projective test invented by psychologist 'Leopold Bellak' for children of three to ten years of age.

• It is a projective measure for acquiring information about children's personalities and psychological processes.
• It was an offshoot of the psychologist Henry Murray's Thematic Appreciation Test in which people portraying cards are used to evaluate children's personalities.
• In the CAT test, picture cards are given to children to reveal and evaluate their interests.
• Children’s observation power, pattern of thoughts, etc are recognized while they give responses to those cards.
• The CAT Cards substitute 'animals for people' by assuming that the children would identify the pictures of animals more easily than that of people and would give significant responses.
• Some of the dimensions of personality include the level of reality testing and judgment, control and regulation of drives, defences, conflicts, and level of autonomy.

Hence, we can conclude that personality is measured through the ‘Children Apperception Test' administered by a teacher to a group of students.