The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on the Accuracy of Children's Copying

Autor/inn/en	Sheppard, Elizabeth; Ropar, Danielle; Mitchell, Peter
Titel	The Impact of Meaning and Dimensionality on the Accuracy of Children's Copying
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23 (2005) 3, S.365-381 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1348/026151005X27605
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Art Education; Children; Duplication; Freehand Drawing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Drawing; Zeichnen
Abstract	Studies of intellectual realism have shown that children aged 7 to 9 copy a line drawing of a cube less accurately than a non-object pattern composed of the same lines (Phillips, Hobbs, & Pratt, 1978). However, it remains unclear whether performance is worse on the cube because it is a three-dimensional representation, or because it is a meaningful object, or both. The accuracy with which twenty 7-year-old and twenty 9-year-old children reproduced 16 line drawings of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and non-objects was assessed. Older children copied all types of drawing more accurately than younger participants, and children of all ages copied two-dimensional drawings more accurately than three-dimensional. Meaningfulness interacted with dimensionality for ratings of drawing accuracy, assisting the copying of two-dimensional drawings, but having no impact on the copying of three-dimensional drawings. For an objective measure based on position, length, and orientation of line, meaningfulness interacted with age group, being beneficial for 7- but not 9-year-olds. Overall, the results imply that, contrary to previous suggestions, meaningfulness can actually be beneficial to copying. (As Provided).
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