Developing an Ability to draw

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What have humans been doing?
Drawing from 30,000 years ago
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What did Thouless attempt?
Visual illusion of shape constancy
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What did he do?
Asked the participant to draw a plate that he saw from his perception
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What did the participant actually draw?
An elipse, he drew it a fatter elipse rather than the actual plate
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What was this called?
Phenomenal regression to the real object
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In the greek school painting, what should the sphere be?
a rugby ball shape, because he is drawing what he knows rather than whats projected onto the eye, intellectual realism
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What is boundary extension?
A picture was cropped but participants tended to extend the drawing, they drew the fence bigger and the bins smaller
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What does this suggest?
The participants are drawing on past knowledge and extending the boundary
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What is the boundary extension caused by?
Knowledge
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What did Cohen and Bennett ask participants to draw?
A woman and a generator
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What were the two conditions?
Tracing or drawing the picture from what participants could see
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What does this show?
When participants had to draw rather than trace, they could only approximate
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Therefore, what do we do?
Misrepresent the world and misrepresent the drawings
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What did Freeman and Janikoun do?
Asked children aged 7 and above to draw a mug
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Children below age 7 drew?
the handle and not the flower
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What did older children do?
Didnt draw the flower and instead drew the handle
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Only children below age 7 who saw the handle did what?
included it in their drawing even when viewing from this perspective
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What did Crook ask children to do?
Asked participants to draw either a single rod through a ball or two rods either end of the ball
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What did the children do?
They drew the rod through the circle because of intellectual realism as they know the rod goes through the ball
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What about older children?
They drew a line either side
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What did Light and Macintosh do?
A beaker was placed by the house, and the house was in the beaker
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What did younger children draw?
If the house was at the side of the beaker they drew it like that
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What did older children do?
They drew the house how they saw it
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What did Reith and Dominin do?
They had to fit a shadow to make a full shadow,
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What did children do?
They tended to pick the full circle rather the crescent shape to cover the visible objects
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What does Intellectual realism do?
It doesnt disappear once you get older than 7
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What did Sheppard et al do?
20 seven-year olds and 20 nine-year olds copied 16 line drawings - 4 sets of 4, meaningfulness and dimensionality factorially contrasted
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What happened to each drawing?
made up of exactly the same lines
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How was accuracy asses?
Number of errors per line
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What dont children tend to draw?
The torso on a human
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What do people call them?
Tadpole figures
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When children drew a nasty man what happened
It was smaller than the nice man
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What did Soley and Haigh do?
They asked children to draw pictures of santa,
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What did they find?
They drew a bigger picture of Santa in December rather than November
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Which means?
Santa is more prominent in December rather than other months
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What did children do when drawing a map?
Depending on where they live, they draw their country massive compared to the other irrelevant countries
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What do children with ASD have?
heightened perceptual abilities and some exploit this in their detailed and perspectivally impressive drawings.
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