Children's Comprehension of Actions Depicted in Photographs [microform] / Gary Kose and Others.
Children three through six years of age were asked to imitate actions depicted in photographs to determine whether they could interpret information of action in photographs. Twenty children at each of four age levels, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years, were asked to imitate two photos, each showing a young child...
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| Format: | Microfilm Book |
| Language: | English |
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1980.
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| Summary: | Children three through six years of age were asked to imitate actions depicted in photographs to determine whether they could interpret information of action in photographs. Twenty children at each of four age levels, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years, were asked to imitate two photos, each showing a young child performing a physical action. Following this task, the children were asked to imitate a live model performing the same actions for purposes of comparison. Finally, subjects were asked to describe what they saw in the pictures. Results indicated that children significantly improve in their ability to imitate actions depicted in photographs as they grow older (from mean of .36 at age 3 to 1.86 at age 6 based on a maximum score of 2). There were no significant increases with age in scores for imitating the live model which were high to start with at 3 years of age. Accurate verbal identification of actions in the photographs was achieved by 52% of the 3-year-olds, compared to 94% of the 6-year-olds. (Author/SS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Biennial Southeastern Conference on Human Development (6th, Alexandria, VA, April 17-19, 1980). ERIC Document Number: ED184726. |
| Physical Description: | 8 p. |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |
| Action Note: | committed to retain |