The air gap phenomenon in children's landscape drawings |
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Authors: | David J Hargreaves Philip M Jones Diane Martin |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, The University, Leicester LE1 7RH, England |
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Abstract: | The “air gap” phenomenon was found to be very common in the free landscape drawings of middle and later childhood. Three experiments are reported in which the contextual cues for such drawings were systematically manipulated. When subjects were supplied with drawing sheets constructed to imply the absence of the air gap, the phenomenon was eliminated in most of their drawings. When supplied with sheets constructed to imply its presence, most subjects produced air gap drawings using contextually provided reference lines. There were no consistent transfer effects across different cuing orders. The susceptibility of the air gap phenomenon to modification by task manipulation suggests that it results from problems of production rather than from defects in the child's internal representation of the world. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr David J Hargreaves Department of Psychology The University Leicester LE1 7RH England |
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