Deck 9: Developing an Ability to Draw

Question 1

Figures on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs are called:

A)Spyrographs
B)Graphics
C)Hieroglyphics
D)Calligraphy
E)Tomb-raider art

Answer 1

Hieroglyphics

Question 2

Ancient Egyptian artists used ______ to depict importance.

A)Dimension
B)Scale
C)Writing
D)Pharaohs
E)Sand from the desert

Answer 2

Scale

Question 3

Some of children's earliest drawings are of the human figure, known as:

A)Droodles
B)Santa Claus
C)Stick men
D)Playpeople
E)Tadpole figures

Answer 3

Tadpole figures

Question 4

Intellectual realism is a term coined by:

A)Bremner
B)Piaget
C)Freeman
D)Luquet
E)Oscar Wilde

Question 5

Piaget viewed intellectual realism as a symptom of:

A)Formal operational intelligence
B)Conservation
C)Assimilation
D)Equilibration
E)Egocentrism

Question 6

A systematic investigation of intellectual realism involved presenting a cup turned so that the handle was out of view. Children aged around 6 and 7 years tended to include the handle in their drawings, even though they couldn't actually see it. A person associated with that research is:

A)Sheppard
B)Luquet
C)Piaget
D)Freeman
E)Barrett

Question 7

Bremner and Moore (1984) demonstrated that whether or not young children included an out-of-view handle in their drawing of the cup depended on their:

A)Motivation to communicate with the experimenter
B)Graphical skills
C)Experience of drawing crockery
D)Capacity for make believe
E)Knowledge that this was a feature of the subject matter

Question 8

Crook (1984) asked children to draw a ball that had been skewered with a rod. The results were that:

A)The children refused to draw the ball unless the rod was removed
B)They drew the rod as a continuous line, even though they could not see the part of it that was inside the ball
C)They drew the ball but not the rod
D)They drew the rod but not the ball
E)They threw the ball

Question 9

Light and Macintosh (1980) asked children aged 6 and 7 years to draw a glass beaker either with a small model house inside it or behind it. The children:

A)Drew the beaker and house side by side only when the house was presented behind the beaker
B)Drew the beaker and house side by side only when the house was presented inside the beaker
C)Drew the beaker but not the house
D)Drew the house but not the beaker
E)Complained that the task was too complicated

Question 10

Light and Humphreys (1981) asked children to draw two pigs presented side by side from various vantage points. Even the younger members of the sample:

A)Accurately captured the relationship between the two pigs with respect to leader and follower
B)Correctly drew one pig occluding the other when appropriate
C)Drew only one pig in detail
D)Enjoyed the task because they liked drawing pictures of animals
E)Successfully completed fairly accurate line drawings

Question 11

Davis (1983) found that intellectual realism in young children was ______ by their depiction of the relationship between two objects.

A)facilitated
B)accentuated
C)encouraged
D)promoted
E)tempered

Question 12

Light and Simmons (1983) investigated whether young children could adapt their drawing to give a clue to their vantage point. They found that:

A)Children did not understand what they were being asked to do
B)The ensuing drawings were not informative about vantage point
C)Children resorted to drawing things that they were practiced at; e.g. the human figure, a house, a car
D)The ensuing drawings were easily and accurately interpreted by a peer
E)Children tended to make figurative rather than representational drawings

Question 13

At what age do the signs of intellectual realism disappear altogether?

A)They are still present in adulthood
B)7 years
C)9 years
D)11 years
E)13 years

Question 14

What is a da Vinci window?

A)A window in a renaissance cathedral
B)A light box
C)A vertical pane of glass on which you can "trace" an object that you can see through the glass
D)A famous sketch by Leonardo
E)A kaleidoscope

Question 15

According to Cohen and Bennett (1997), a major cause of systematic errors in adults' drawings is:

A)Misperception of the subject matter
B)Poor motor control
C)An inferior education
D)Genetic factors
E)Difficulty deciding how to translate form gradations in light and color to a pencil line

Question 16

Reith and Dominin (1997) found that children aged 5-9 years tended to ______ cutouts that resembled an object's real shape rather than its projected shape.

A)categorize
B)avoid
C)draw
D)choose
E)color

Question 17

Mitchell et al. (2005) investigated adults' systematic errors in drawing:

A)A dinner plate
B)The human figure
C)A house
D)A car
E)Visual illusions

Question 18

According to Mitchell et al. (2005), adults' ______ was(were) responsible for systematic errors in their drawings.

A)Lack of training in art
B)Interpretations of the 3-D properties in the subject matter
C)Failure to think on the right side of the brain
D)Misinterpretation of the task
E)Failure to scrutinize the subject matter

Question 19

In a quest to find the cause of children's errors in drawing, Sheppard, Ropar, and Mitchell (2005) manipulated two factors: (1) Whether the subject matter had 2-D or 3-D properties, and (2) Whether:

A)The participant did or did not have training in art
B)The participant was a child or an adult
C)The participant did or did not have a diagnosis of autism
D)The subject matter was meaningful or meaningless
E)The subject matter was a real object or a photograph of an object

Question 20

Several studies suggest that children scale their drawings such that:

A)Attractive subject matter is drawn large and aversive subject matter is drawn small
B)They fit the page perfectly
C)They successfully include all the relevant features
D)Plenty of space remains for further drawing
E)Paper is not wasted

Question 21

Goodwin (1982) suggests that in cases of incest, abused children are ______ their drawings.

A)Disturbed by
B)Unable to communicate about aspects of the trauma they suffered through
C)Successfully able to communicate some aspects of the trauma they suffered through
D)Developmentally delayed in
E)Living in a fantasy world through

Question 22

Axia et al. (1998) found that children in different European countries tend to draw their own country:

A)Flamboyantly, with style and flair
B)In color
C)Precisely
D)At the center of the universe
E)Relatively large

Question 23

According to Solley and Haigh (1957), as Christmas approaches children tend to draw:

A)Scenes for Christmas cards
B)More pictures
C)Santa Claus larger and larger
D)Pictures of gifts to send to Santa Claus
E)With fewer signs of intellectual realism

Question 24

The severity of intellectual realism in children's drawings:

A)Increases with increasing age
B)Diminishes with increasing age
C)Is not related with the age of the participant
D)Is widely known to be especially common in those of lower socio-economic status
E)Is associated with the quality of diet

Question 25

Intellectual realism refers to children's tendency to draw:

A)What they know rather than what they see
B)What they see rather than what they know
C)Real-life scenes rather than fantasy scenes
D)The human figure
E)Representationally rather than symbolically