Stiles J, Tada W, Whipple T
Psychology Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Apr;70(2):663-72. doi: 10.2466/pms.1990.70.2.663.
A total of 150 children between 2.5 and 5 yr. of age were tested on one of three conditions (one experimental and two control) of a copying task adapted from the 1982 Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration of Beery. In the experimental condition, the geometric forms were labeled with the names of familiar objects. Analysis of scores indicated that introduction of verbal labels on the copying task facilitated preschool children's ability to reproduce geometric forms. The effect was consistent across the ages tested but was limited in that facilitation was observed only for those forms just beyond the child's demonstrated level of mastery. These results suggested that the verbal labels evoked a representational context which provided children with additional information necessary for accurate reproduction of the forms. Two alternative interpretations of this finding are discussed.
共有150名年龄在2.5至5岁之间的儿童接受了一项临摹任务测试，该任务取自1982年贝里视觉运动整合发育测试，有三种条件（一种实验条件和两种对照条件）。在实验条件下，几何图形用常见物体的名称进行标注。对分数的分析表明，在临摹任务中引入语言标签有助于学龄前儿童再现几何图形的能力。这种效果在所有测试年龄中都是一致的，但有局限性，即仅在超出儿童已证明的掌握水平的那些图形上观察到了促进作用。这些结果表明，语言标签唤起了一种表征情境，为儿童提供了准确再现图形所需的额外信息。本文讨论了对这一发现的两种替代性解释。
