Symbolic immunity and flexibility in preschoolers' human figure drawings.

Twenty-eight preschoolers (14 boys, 14 girls) ranging in age from 3 years 11 months to 5 years 8 months (M = 4 years 6 months) drew pictures of a person and then were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions, to determine if they would change their human figure drawings after participating in tasks designed to make body parts more salient. Half of the children were given a snowman-shaped outline and were asked to draw nine body parts read by an experimenter. The other children heard the same list and pointed to the parts on themselves. Then the children were given more paper and were asked to draw a person again. Analyses indicated that, in both groups, there was no significant difference in ...

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