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Keywords
Children--Language--Testing; Visual perception;
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare different forms of stimuli for eliciting children's knowledge of their language. The study compared black-and-white drawings employing cues to depth, movement, and form. Pictures from various commercially available receptive and expressive language tests were selected. Three-dimensional representations of the same linguistic concepts were developed by the investigator. Selected test stimuli and their three-dimensional counterparts were administered to 30 preschool-age children. Responses to both stimuli were judged as correct or incorrect by the scoring conventions of the test from which the items were selected. Study results indicated that within each dimension tested, pictures were as easily interpreted as objects. Artistic conventions for depth, movement, and form were observed to be no more confusing than their realistic representations. The pictorial illustrations incorported [sic] in the present study were successful in eliciting children's knowledge of the concepts addressed. Clinically, study results imply that two-dimensional pictures appear adequate for clinical assessment purposes. However, the extent to which this implication extends to the assessment of more complex linguistic concepts has not yet been determined and signifies an area for further investigation.
Year of Submission
1985
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
First Advisor
Clifford L. Highnam
Second Advisor
Judith Finkel Harrington
Third Advisor
Jack Yates
Date Original
1985
Object Description
1 PDF file (71 leaves)
Copyright
©1985 Barbara Lynn Froyen
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Froyen, Barbara Lynn, "The Effects of Artistic Three Dimensionality on Preschoolers’ Perception of Line Drawings" (1985). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2683.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2683
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