Decomposing and Connecting Object Representations in 5- to 9-Year-Old Children's Drawing Behaviour

Autor/inn/en	Picard, Delphine; Vinter, Annie
Titel	Decomposing and Connecting Object Representations in 5- to 9-Year-Old Children's Drawing Behaviour
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24 (2006) 3, S.529-545 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1348/026151005X49836
Schlagwörter	Children; Freehand Drawing; Child Behavior; Cognitive Processes; Priming + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Drawing; Zeichnen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	This study aimed at specifying the content of the representational redescription (RR) process assumed by Karmiloff-Smith (1992) with respect to the emergence of inter-representational flexibility in children's drawing behaviour. We hypothesized that the RR process included part-whole decomposition processes that are essential to the ability to produce cross-categorical drawings. We presented 5- to 9-year-old children with either a two-part (TP) or a several-part (SP) decomposition task involving a house and a man (experimental conditions) or with no such decomposition task (control condition), prior to a connection task (drawing a man-house). The results showed that connection performances were better in children who had previously decomposed the objects into two parts than in children assigned to the control group. This positive "priming" effect was attributed to the activation of part-whole analysis processes that further facilitated the management of complex connections between the objects. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10