Are Young Children's Drawings Canonically Biased?

Autor/inn/en	Picard, Delphine; Durand, Karine
Titel	Are Young Children's Drawings Canonically Biased?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90 (2005) 1, S.48-64 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.002
Schlagwörter	Cues; Childrens Art; Young Children; Freehand Drawing; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Frühe Kindheit; Drawing; Zeichnen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	In a between-subjects design, 4-to 6-year-olds were asked to draw from three-dimensional (3D) models, two-and-a-half-dimensional (212D) models with or without depth cues, or two-dimensional (2D) models of a familiar object (a saucepan) in noncanonical orientations (handle at the back or at the front). Results showed that canonical errors were produced mainly by the youngest children in the 3D models copying condition. A large proportion of errors did not, however, reflect biases toward the participants' ''own'' view of the object; rather, these errors reflected biases toward their ''best'' view of the object. Drawing from models having fewer than three dimensions resulted in a significant increase in view-specific productions in all children for the back orientation. When a more complex front orientation of the object was proposed, sensitivity to model type developed gradually with age. Results are discussed in terms of the flexibility of the mental model that mediates between children's perception of a model object and the depiction decisions. (Author).
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