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講 師:：Dr. Ruth Sitton （Ben Gurion University of the Negen, Senior Lecturer, Israel　東大客員研究員）

シトン先生は、1937年オーストリアのウィーン生まれ、1945年イスラエルに帰化。英国サウサンプトン大学で Ph.D. 取得。ご専門は、発達心理学・臨床心理学。

日 時：2003年５月９日（金）　３限（13時−14時半）
場 所：京都大学大学院教育学研究科 (京都市左京区吉田本町)　１Ｆ　第１講義室　　　　　

企 画：やまだようこ・子安増生（京大教育学研究科、京大ＣＯＥ、Ｄ班「生涯発達と進化」）共催：教育認知心理学講座
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講演題目：Drawing to differentiate: Flexibility in young children's human figure drawing.

講演要旨　General summary


Young children are often regarded as inflexible and stereotypic in their drawings.  A series of five experiments investigated young children, in three age groups (3;6 - 4;5, 4;6 - 5;5, 5;6 - 6;5) on various tasks of human figure drawings, to establish if and how they alter their initial drawings according to instructional constraints.  Experimental conditions were manipulated between baseline drawings, a contrast situation, a communication game strategy and a paired communication and non-communication experiment.
It was found that young children do differentiate between task figures with the aid of various qualitative and quantitative codes.  The differential use of discriminatory first and second order codes was found to be age related and adaptable to context.  The effect of experimental conditions (especially the communication game) was to enhance use of codes that would otherwise appear spontaneously at an older age only.  Most remarkably affected by experimental conditions were the 4;6 - 5;5 year olds.  Rate of change in sequential order was found to be quite flexible and age related. Furthermore, placement on the paper was used as a discriminating code between task figures.  The results suggest that young children are using a preferential hierarchy to encode task figures and that they flexibly change their drawings to meet different informational requirements.

 Specific abstract for talk:

The present paper reports a study concerned with: a) how children's ability to differentiate between men, women, boys and girls in their drawings changes between 4 and 6 years of age, and b) how the introduction of a communicative context for drawing affects such differentiation.  Data collected from 72 Israeli children revealed increasing differentiation between human figures across the age range studied, with qualitative changes in the types  of cue used.  The introduction of communicative context had no effect on children's drawings at 4 years, significant though complex effects at 5 years, and significant effects of a more predictable nature at 6 years.  Results are discussed n terms of children's use of hierarchy of cues to establish differentiation.

【主要論文】　
Sitton,R. & Light,P. Drawing to differentiate: Flexibility in young chidlren's human figure drawings. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 1992, 10, 25-33.
Sitton,R. A Comprehensive attitude in services offered in a high risk neighbourhood to disadvantaged parents and their children. Presented at the Conference on Children at Risk at the Norweigian  Center for Child Researach and UNICEF. 1992.
Sitton,R. Evaluation of children at risk and parental fitness by experts and by an interdisciplinary team in cases of neglect and abuse. Presented at the International Conference of Familiy and Community Care. Hong Kong, 1994.