Intro Psychology Child Drawin CB - Softcover

Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814781845 ISBN 13: 9780814781845

Publisher: New York University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Children's drawings are intriguing. Why, for example, do children draw people with arms sticking out of the side of their heads? Recent research in the study of children's art suggests that these apparent oddities are not just random mistakes, but reflect children's orderly and often thoughful attempts at pictorial representation.

This concise book reviews psychological theories of children's drawings and their relation to emotional and cognitive development. Long-established assumptions that "children draw what they know," or that drawings are expressions of emotional experience or unconscious wishes, are critically appraised.

Unlike many specialized works, this book does not present just one approach to the exclusion of others, but attempts a dispassionate review of all major theories and aspects of this fascinating subject. Organized around a series of simple questions about children's drawings, the book covers material from philosophy, perception studies, clinical psychology, art, and aesthetics as well as from child development and cognitive psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0814781845
• ISBN 13: 9780814781845
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1