CO.A.T Blank (Colour Apperception Test), An Effective Projective Technique for the New Generation: A Sample Report

Colour psychology is the study of how colour affect human behaviour, mood or physiological processes. Colour psychology is relatively a new area of study but have been proven to be effective with its results of knowing the deeper layers of personality because every person have different perception about responses of colour. Colour Apperception Test is a pictorial projective technique of personality assessment based on the psychology of colour. The test has been developed by Dr. Rinita Jain. As with any projective technique an unstructured situation helps project feelings, need, emotions and motives of the testee. Similarly with this test the testee when assigning meaning with a particular colour and the situation gives two different angles of his personality.Firstly the popular perception which gives an index of the testee’s knowledge according to the norms and Secondly the experiential perception which gives scores on remembering events and giving personal experiential touch to the color.Its interpretation works to great extent in Murray's formulation on Thematic Apperception Test but the interpretations have been simplified. It contains 27 colour cards and 11 colours. It works effectively on age group 5-20 years. The test has high reliability and criterion validity as the testee relates completely with the colour while performing the test.