MA, Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand

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O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi estabelecer normas para o Desenho da Figura Humana, especificamente para o Desenho do Homem, avaliado pelo Teste Goodenough-Harris (1963) e pelos Indicadores Maturacionais de Koppitz (1973), bem como obter dados relativos à precisão e à validade. A amostra foi composta por 1540 crianças, de 5 a 11,5 anos, de ambos os sexos, sorteadas de modo a ser representativa de escolares da cidade de São Paulo. Foram controladas as variáveis: idade, sexo e tipo de escola que a criança freqüenta, este último como indicativo do nível socioeconômico. As crianças foram avaliadas individualmente, tendo sido solicitado o Desenho de um Homem e depois aplicado o Teste R-2. Foram realizadas análises de variância, considerando como variáveis a idade, o sexo e o tipo de escola. Foi constatado que as faixas etárias com amplitude de seis meses não discriminavam os grupos. Outra análise com faixas com amplitude um ano se mostrou satisfatória e as médias de pontos mostraram crescimento progressivo com a idade pelos dois sistemas de avaliação. Para a avaliação Goodenough-Harris, foram obtidas diferenças significantes entre os sexos apenas na Educação Infantil e não houve diferenças entre os tipos de escola, mostrando que o desenho pode estar associado em maior grau a fatores maturacionais do que a ambientais. As normas em percentis são apresentadas por idade, com amplitude de um ano e separadas por sexo apenas aos 5 e 6 anos. O mesmo ocorreu na avaliação Koppitz, e as normas estabelecidas por idade e separadas por sexo apenas para 5, 6 e 7 anos. As correlações entre os pontos do Desenho do Homem nas duas avaliações e o teste R-2 foram significantes, sendo para a amostra total de 0,575 (Koppitz) e 0,606 (Goodenough-Harris). A correlação entre as duas avaliações do desenho foi de 0,899 para a amostra total, que é significante e alta. Os coeficientes de precisão pelo reteste foram satisfatórios, sendo de 0,808 na avaliação Goodenough-Harris e 0,708 na Koppitz, para a amostra total. A precisão pelo Método das Metades para a amostra total foi de 0,923 e 0,857, respectivamente. Foram obtidas as freqüências de cada item, por idade e para a amostra total nas duas avaliações, e calculadas as correlações ponto-bisserial dos itens por idade e amostra total. Os resultados foram comparados com os de Harris (1963), Alves (1979), Koppitz (1973), Hutz e Antoniazzi (1995) e Sarti (1999). Concluiu-se que os dois sistemas de pontuação do Desenho do Homem são adequados para avaliação cognitiva das crianças escolares da cidade de São Paulo, podendo ser empregados na triagem e avaliação psicológica infantil. / The purpose of this work was to establish norms for the Human Figure Drawing, specifically for the Man’s Drawing, evaluated by Goodenough-Harris Test (1963) and by the Koppitz Maturity Indicators (1973), as well to get data relating to reliability and validity. The sample was composed by 1540 children, from 5 to 11½ years old, both sexes and school type and it was designed to be a representative sample of students from São Paulo city. Variables aspects age, sex and school type was controlled, this last one as a socioeconomic level indication. Children were assessed individually, and it was asked to Draw a Man and then was applied the R-2 Test. It was performed a Variance Analysis, considering as variables age, sex and school type. It was found that age levels with six months range did not discriminate groups. Another Variance Analysis indicated that age groups with one year range could discriminate age groups and the means scores increased with age in both assessment systems. For Goodenough-Harris system it was found sex differences only in preschool children, but it was not found school type differences, showing that drawing is more associated to maturational factors than environmental factors. Norms were presented in percentiles scores by age, and separated by sex only for 5 and 6 years old. Similar results were found in Koppitz assessment and norms are presented by age and separated by sex only for 5, 6 and 7 years old children. Correlations coefficients between two assessment systems of Man Drawing scores and the R-2 Test for global sample were significant (r= 0,575 to Koppitz and r= 0,606 to Goodenoough-Harris). Correlations between two assessment systems of drawing were high and significant (0,899). Reliability retest coefficients were satisfactory (r= 0,808 to Goodenough-Harris and 0,708 to Koppitz to global sample). The Split-Half reliability to total sample was 0,923 to Goodenough-Harris and 0,857 to Koppitz. It was calculated passing items frequencies and point-biserial correlations for age and for total sample in both systems. Results were compared with researches of Harris (1963), Alves (1979), Koppitz (1973), Hutz & Antoniazzi (1995) and Sarti (1999). It was concluded that both scores systems of Man’s Drawing were adequate to cognitive assessment of São Paulo city children and can be used to screening and psychological diagnostic.

O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi estabelecer normas para o Desenho da Figura Humana, especificamente para o Desenho do Homem, avaliado pelo Teste Goodenough-Harris (1963) e pelos Indicadores Maturacionais de Koppitz (1973), bem como obter dados relativos à precisão e à validade. A amostra foi composta por 1540 crianças, de 5 a 11,5 anos, de ambos os sexos, sorteadas de modo a ser representativa de escolares da cidade de São Paulo. Foram controladas as variáveis: idade, sexo e tipo de escola que a criança freqüenta, este último como indicativo do nível socioeconômico. As crianças foram avaliadas individualmente, tendo sido solicitado o Desenho de um Homem e depois aplicado o Teste R-2. Foram realizadas análises de variância, considerando como variáveis a idade, o sexo e o tipo de escola. Foi constatado que as faixas etárias com amplitude de seis meses não discriminavam os grupos. Outra análise com faixas com amplitude um ano se mostrou satisfatória e as médias de pontos mostraram crescimento progressivo com a idade pelos dois sistemas de avaliação. Para a avaliação Goodenough-Harris, foram obtidas diferenças significantes entre os sexos apenas na Educação Infantil e não houve diferenças entre os tipos de escola, mostrando que o desenho pode estar associado em maior grau a fatores maturacionais do que a ambientais. As normas em percentis são apresentadas por idade, com amplitude de um ano e separadas por sexo apenas aos 5 e 6 anos. O mesmo ocorreu na avaliação Koppitz, e as normas estabelecidas por idade e separadas por sexo apenas para 5, 6 e 7 anos. As correlações entre os pontos do Desenho do Homem nas duas avaliações e o teste R-2 foram significantes, sendo para a amostra total de 0,575 (Koppitz) e 0,606 (Goodenough-Harris). A correlação entre as duas avaliações do desenho foi de 0,899 para a amostra total, que é significante e alta. Os coeficientes de precisão pelo reteste foram satisfatórios, sendo de 0,808 na avaliação Goodenough-Harris e 0,708 na Koppitz, para a amostra total. A precisão pelo Método das Metades para a amostra total foi de 0,923 e 0,857, respectivamente. Foram obtidas as freqüências de cada item, por idade e para a amostra total nas duas avaliações, e calculadas as correlações ponto-bisserial dos itens por idade e amostra total. Os resultados foram comparados com os de Harris (1963), Alves (1979), Koppitz (1973), Hutz e Antoniazzi (1995) e Sarti (1999). Concluiu-se que os dois sistemas de pontuação do Desenho do Homem são adequados para avaliação cognitiva das crianças escolares da cidade de São Paulo, podendo ser empregados na triagem e avaliação psicológica infantil. / The purpose of this work was to establish norms for the Human Figure Drawing, specifically for the Man’s Drawing, evaluated by Goodenough-Harris Test (1963) and by the Koppitz Maturity Indicators (1973), as well to get data relating to reliability and validity. The sample was composed by 1540 children, from 5 to 11½ years old, both sexes and school type and it was designed to be a representative sample of students from São Paulo city. Variables aspects age, sex and school type was controlled, this last one as a socioeconomic level indication. Children were assessed individually, and it was asked to Draw a Man and then was applied the R-2 Test. It was performed a Variance Analysis, considering as variables age, sex and school type. It was found that age levels with six months range did not discriminate groups. Another Variance Analysis indicated that age groups with one year range could discriminate age groups and the means scores increased with age in both assessment systems. For Goodenough-Harris system it was found sex differences only in preschool children, but it was not found school type differences, showing that drawing is more associated to maturational factors than environmental factors. Norms were presented in percentiles scores by age, and separated by sex only for 5 and 6 years old. Similar results were found in Koppitz assessment and norms are presented by age and separated by sex only for 5, 6 and 7 years old children. Correlations coefficients between two assessment systems of Man Drawing scores and the R-2 Test for global sample were significant (r= 0,575 to Koppitz and r= 0,606 to Goodenoough-Harris). Correlations between two assessment systems of drawing were high and significant (0,899). Reliability retest coefficients were satisfactory (r= 0,808 to Goodenough-Harris and 0,708 to Koppitz to global sample). The Split-Half reliability to total sample was 0,923 to Goodenough-Harris and 0,857 to Koppitz. It was calculated passing items frequencies and point-biserial correlations for age and for total sample in both systems. Results were compared with researches of Harris (1963), Alves (1979), Koppitz (1973), Hutz & Antoniazzi (1995) and Sarti (1999). It was concluded that both scores systems of Man’s Drawing were adequate to cognitive assessment of São Paulo city children and can be used to screening and psychological diagnostic.

The present thesis explores the link between children's drawings and cognitive development. The aim of this study is to investigate the intellectual abilities of the child draughtsman with good depiction skills and to evaluate the merit of the drawing technique in the assessment of conceptual maturity. The standardised Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT) of intellectual maturity was administered to 115 children between 4 to 8 years of age against criterion ability measures (Wechsler scales). Its psychometric properties are examined in respect to its norms and scales, its reliability and validity at different age levels and ranges of intelligence. Early theories in the area of pictorial representation were directed towards identifying features characteristic of different developmental periods (Kerschensteiner, 1905; Luquet, 1927/1977). At the same time Piaget and Inhelder (1948/1967) incorporated these stage theories into their model of spatial intelligence. Yet, the recent experimental study of children's drawings has disclosed a number of variables which interfere during the course of production, challenging the view that drawings can be seen as the royal route to access children's concepts. Stage theories are re-evaluated by means of fourteen experimental drawing tasks with various degree of difficulty. The tasks - administered to the same children tested with the standardised instruments -are spatial in nature and have been sampled from two widely researched areas related to the pictorial representation of partial occlusion and of spatial axes (horizontal/vertical). The acquisition of the pertinent spatial concepts by means of drawings is examined, considering competence-deficiency and competence-utilisation accounts of children's performance at different ages. Finally, overall perfomance on spatial tasks is compared with performance on conventional (Wechsler scales) and non-verbal (GHDT) measures of intellectual functioning, considering the optimum method to assess children's abilities by means of drawings. In general, drawing performance is reasonably sensitive to children's level of intelligence, yet the significance of drawing varies at different ages and ranges of IQ. Finally, the establishment of steadfast developmental trajectories falls short in the field of pictorial representation. The variable performance, particularly from the children at intermediate ages, suggests that the stages of intellectual or visual realism should be seen as relative and not as absolute.

The problem with which this study was concerned involved the identification of minimally brain-injured children. The performance on the "Birch-Belmont Auditory-Visual Integration Test" by twenty-five minimally brain-injured students was compared to the performance of twenty-five non-brain-injured children. It was found that when ages and I.Q. scores were not significantly different, and when sexes were approximately proportionate, the M.B.I. children scored significantly lower than did the non-brain-injured children. While it was indicated that the minimally brain-injured children perform less adequately on auditory-visual integration, no comparison of intrasensory and intersensory functioning was made. It was suggested that the test not be employed for sole determination of minimal brain injury, but that it may be used as a screening device quite appropriately.

This study was part of the Portland Language Development Project. The purpose was to establish reliability for the Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test. Additionally, nonlinguistic cognitive performance scores were correlated with soores from expressive and receptive language test soores. Finally, scores of overall cognitive function and of nonlinguistic cognitive function in children with normally developing language (NL) and with expressive language delay (ELD) were compared. The original group size was 60 children, 30 with ELD at the age of 20 months, and 30 who were a matched control group. These subjects were reevaluated during Kindergarten. The Draw-A-Man Test was administered to assess the subjects' nonlinguistic cognitive functioning. The McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities CMCSA) was administered to assess the subjects' overall cognitive functioning. A free speech sample was analyzed using the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) criteria to assess expressive language skills, and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

La nostra investigació s'inscriu en la concepció dinàmica de la intel·ligència, i concretament en el processos que configuren el processament cerebral en el Model d'integració de la informació descrit per Das, Kirby i Jarman (1979). Els dos processos cerebrals que constitueixen la base de la conducta intel·ligent són el processament simultani i el processament seqüencial; són les dues estratègies principals del processament de la informació. Tota classe d'estímul és susceptible d'ésser processat o bé seqüencialment (seriació, verbal, anàlisi), o be simultàniament (global, visual, síntesi).Basant-nos en el recull bibliogràfic i amb la convicció de que apropant-nos al coneixement de les peculiaritats del processament de la informació, ens endinsem en la comprensió del procés que mena a la conducta intel·ligent, i per tant, a l'aprenentatge, formulem la següent hipòtesi de treball: en els nens de preescolar (d'entre els 3 i els sis anys) es donaran aquest dos tipus de processament i variaran en funció de l'edat, el sexe, l'atenció, les dificultats d'aprenentatge, els problemes de llenguatge, el bilingüisme, el nivell sociocultural, la dominància manual, el nivell mental i de la presència de patologia. Les diferències que s'esdevinguin ens permetran de formular criteris i pautes per a la intervenció educativa.Els nostres objectius es refonen en mesurar el processament en nens de preescolar de les comarques gironines, verificar la relació de cada tipus de processament amb les variables esmentades, comprovar si s'estableix un paral·lelisme entre el processament i les aportacions de concepció localitzacionista de les funcions cerebrals en base als nostres resultats, i pautes per a la intervenció pedagògica.Quant al mètode, hem seleccionat una mostra representativa dels nens i nenes matriculats a les escoles publiques de les comarques gironines durant el curs 92/93, mitjançant un mostreig aleatori estratificat i per conglomerats. El tamany real de la mostra és de dos-cents seixanta un subjectes.Els instruments emprats han estat els següents: el Test K-ABC de Kaufman & Kaufman (1983) per a la avaluació del processament; un formulari dirigit als pares per a la recollida de la informació pertinent; entrevistes amb les mestres, i el Test de la Figura Humana de Goodenough.Pel que fa referència als resultats de la nostra recerca i en funció dels objectius proposats, constatem els fets següents. En els nens de preescolar, amb edats d'entre els tres i els sis anys, es constata l'existència dels dos tipus de processament cerebral, sense que es doni un predomini d'un sobre de l'altre; ambdós processaments actuen interrelacionadament.Ambdós tipus de processament milloren a mesura que augmenta l'edat, però es constaten diferències derivades del nivell mental: amb un nivell mental normal s'hi associa una millora d'ambdós processaments, mentre que amb un nivell mental deficient només millora fonamentalment el processament seqüencial.Tanmateix, el processament simultani està més relacionat amb les funcions cognitives complexes i és més nivell mental dependent que el processament seqüencial.Tant les dificultats d'aprenentatge com els problemes de llenguatge predominen en els nens i nenes amb un desequilibri significatiu entre ambdós tipus de processament; les dificultats d'aprenentatge estan més relacionades amb una deficiència del processament simultani, mentre que els problemes de llenguatge es relacionen més amb una deficiència en el processament seqüencial.Els nivells socioculturals baixos es relacionen amb resultats inferiors en ambdós tipus de processament.Per altra part, entre els nens bilingües és més freqüent el processament seqüencial significatiu.El test de la Figura Humana es comporta com un marcador de processament simultani i el nivell atencional com un marcador de la gravetat del problema que afecta al processament i en el següent ordre: nivell mental deficient, dificultats, d'aprenentatge i problemes de llenguatge . Les deficiències atencionals van lligades a deficiències en el processament simultani i a la presencia de patologia.Quant a la dominància manual no es constaten diferències en el processament.Finalment, respecte del sexe només podem aportar que quan un dels dos tipus de processament és deficitari,i es dóna per tant, un desequilibri en el processament, predomina significativament el nombre de nens afectats per sobre del de nenes. / This issue was designed to study cerebral processing as an application of the successive-simultaneous processing model (Das, Kirby and Jarman 1979) in children of our country.The relationship between K-ABC simultaneous and successive scores and several conditions as well as the relationship between these conditions and qualitative variables was investigated. Also, Goodenough test was added to the study as a complement. Age, sex, attention, learning difficulties, speech problems, bilingualism, sociocultural level, hand dominance, IQ, are conditions considered in the research. The objectives of the study were to provide conclusions for applicability to learning disabled children and, this way, to assist school teachers in an attempt to ameliorate educational system.Subject SampleRandom sampling of preschool children living in Girona, region of Catalonia (Spain) was selected for the study. The children ranged in age from 36 to 72 months with a mean age of 61 months (SD-8.07). Students (preschool children) participating in the present study were members of two classrooms, grade 1 (P4) and grade 2 (P5). Two strata were done based on the mode of classroom so sample was representative. Given that children population in Girona region is 7095 we were able to calculate sampling in terms of 262 subjects with proportion factor of 3.702 for each stratum. A peculiarity must be mentioned. Catalonia in Spain has two languages, Catalan and Spanish languages but Catalan immersion is carried out in every school in Catalonia.InstrumentsTen subtests of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (Kaufnan & Kaufman,1983) were selected for the present study. Seven simultaneous tests were applied: Gestalt Clousure, Triangles, Matrix Analogies, spatial Memory, Photo Series, Magic Window, Face Recognition. According to age, each child took different number of subtests. Three successive tests were administrated: Number Recall, Word Order, Hand Movements. For complete descriptions of tasks refer to Kaufman & Kaufman manual (1983). Also, the analysis reported by Das (1984) hasbeen considered. In addition to these, the Goodenough test (Harris,1982) was applied as instrument for assessing intellectual stage of development . On the other hand, a questionnaire was done.ProcedureParents' permission was sought prior to assessing the children, and in no case were we denied permission. Subjects were tested individually. Testing was carried out in a quiet room at the school. The average time per assessment was 35 minutes. All the testing was conducted in the school by the same author.Data AnalysisThe SPSS program was used to analyze the data. The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to describe a relationship between two variables. The t-Student was used to test the significance of differences between means. Chi-Square (x2) test was used to test the significance of differences between proportions. Mantel-Haenszel test was also applied where indicated for determining whether two variables were dependent or independent.Results and conclusionsThe following statements were concluded: (1) Both cognitive processes, successive and simultaneous, were present in the range of 3-6-year-old. No one of the two modes of processing was significantly superior. Both of them work interrelated. (2) Scores are higher with increasing age in successive and simultaneous processing but in the case of the retarded subjects that is true for the successive but not for the simultaneous. (3) Simultaneous processing is more related to complex cognitive functions than successive processing. (4) Learning difficulties and speech problems are more frequent in the case of imbalanced processing. Learning disability is more frequently related to simultaneous processing but speech problems to successive processing. (5) Lower sociocultural children score worse in both cognitive processing. (6) Bilingual children are more frequently successive in the cognitive processing. (7) No differences with respect to hand dominance were found. (8) When one of the two cognitive processing is deficient (imbalanced processing) the number of boys is significantly superior to the number of girls.