PRE‐SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PREFERENCES FOR DRAWINGS OF A SIMILAR COMPLEXITY TO THEIR OWN

Abstract

S ummary . The drawings of people and houses by nursery school children were compared with their preferences for representations of various complexity of the same subjects. It was found that children significantly prefer representations which have most in common with their own drawings, thus indicating that children draw as they do through choice, and not because they have difficulty in producing more advanced representations.