The sketching and copying in preschool children by successive drawing of a slant disk : The task order effects and the availability as a cognitive measurement in preschool childrenu27s drawing

摘要

The purpose of this study was to research the condition of preschool children that drawing behaviorcorresponding to an object is completed according to tasks demanded. Eighty-eight children of mean age sixyears three months participated in an individual experiment by drawing. We carried out a sketchingexperiment of a slant disk and a copying experiment of a 2-D oval figure corresponding to the same sketchingimage under the within-subject condition. As a result, the effect of the task order that promoted the lineperspective drawing by the preschool children was not found. However, the drawing procedure by successivepresentation used in this experiment and the quantificational data showed the expected shape constancy andthe availability in a psychological study of object recognition.