T2: Lecture 6 Flashcards
What are the 5 stages in Development of Children’s Drawings
- Scribbling
- Pre-schematic
- Schematic
- Realistic
- Period of Indecision
What age is the Scribbling stage?
2-3 years
How do Scribbling stage drawings look?
- Not representative of anything
- Children will say they are drawing ‘thing’
What age is the Pre-Schematic stage?
3-4 years
How do Pre-Schematic stage drawings look?
- 1st attempt at human figure drawings
- Tadpole drawings
- > Circular head, 2-4 limbs as protruding lines
What age is the Schematic stage?
5-6 years
What do children develop at the Schematic stage?
They develop a ‘schema’ for drawing people
-Between kids this will be different, but for a child their schema will be the same each time
How do early Schematic stage drawings look?
- Separate trunk from head
- Misplace/forget arms
How do late Schematic stage drawings look?
- Substance on limbs
- Arms correctly places
- Details e.g. lashes, brows
- Neck ( last thing to emerge)
What age is the Realistic stage?
9ish
What does the Realistic stage mark?
The end of art as spontaneous activity
How do Realistic stage drawings look?
- More detail
- Varying expressions
- Good spatial use
- Profile
- Looks like an actual person
What is the Period of Indecision?
Art as something to be done/left along
What are projective measures (clinical Value in children’s drawings)
Less about what’s drawn, more about HOW it’s drawn
What 3 things are projected onto children’s drawings?
- Intelligence
- Psychological Wellbeing
- Sexual Abuse
How is Intelligence projected onto kid’s drawings?
- Through a draw a person test, then the drawing is coded for specific features e.g. 4x limbs, neck
- Can differentiate intelligence between groups but isn’t good at identifying cases that need help
How is Psychological Wellbeing projected onto kid’s drawings?
- Draw a family test
- Interpret in context of psychoanalytic therapy (underlying subconscious)
- NO EVIDENCE
How is Sexual Abuse projected onto kid’s drawings?
- Needed a non-verbal measure of abuse
- Suggests drawings differ depending on abuse history e.g. shading, sexual content
- NO CONSISTENT PATTERNS
How does drawing help as a verbal communication aid?
- Helps children get talking and recall info
- Drawing content isn’t relevant
- When kids draw=more info
Why might drawing work as a communication aid for interveiws?
- Increases interview length=say more
- Decreases social barrier
- Children provide own retrieval aids
- Reinstates mental context
- Affects interviewer’s behaviour
