Role of Color on the Production of Responses in Children’s Rorschach Protocols

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that, while color has the property to increase the production of responses to the Rorschach, such an effect is not present in children’s protocols. Based on a review of the literature, the author highlights the characteristic of high reactive demand of the subject to color stimulus and traces its evolution to the preoperational period, where color nominations and the incongruent use of color, especially of pure color, are frequent. With the entry in the period of concrete operations such responses become rare or even disappear. In turn, the mean number of responses to color cards decreases between 5 to 6 and 11 years, and their form quality goes down as well. The cause of this change is the emergence and development of logical thinking. Given the intensity of color stimulus, the child does not yet have the equipment that will allow her to later integrate color and object as they really are.

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