title: Cognitive correlates of complexity of children's drawings.
abstract: 240 children (60 each at ages 4, 6, 8, and 10 years) were administered Dennis' (1987) Five Drawing Tasks and five additional developmental tasks. Three hypotheses were tested: that object recognition and working memory would be related to increasing complexity, that both would load on separate factors, and that higher-order analyses would indicate an underlying second-order spatial factor. Analysis included very strong zero-order correlations with age. When age was partialed out, three first-order factors were obtained. Higher-order analyses yielded one second-order factor which appeared related to a general factor of spatial intelligence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Visual Arts, Frostburg State University, Maryland 21532, USA.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bensur
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eliot
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hegde
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013028:Space Perception