Author Question: When asked to draw a picture of another child, Lee draws a large circle with two dots for eyes and a ... (Read 249 times)

evelyn o bentley · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When asked to draw a picture of another child, Lee draws a large circle with two dots for eyes and a horizontal line for a mouth. Four lines emanate outward from the circle; these lines, Lee says, are arms and legs. Based on this information, you would guess that Lee is:

a. No more than 21/2 years old
b. Perhaps about 31/2 or 4 years old
c. Probably a boy, as girls rarely draw people this way
d. Almost certainly from a Western culture, as children from Eastern cultures (e.g., China and Japan) depict people very differently than Western children do even in the preschool years

Question 2

With the textbook's discussion of geography development in mind, choose the alternative that is most likely to give children in the lower elementary grades difficulty when they try to interpret maps.

a. They haven't traveled enough to be able to imagine different topographies and climates.
b. They don't completely understand that a map is a symbolic representation.
c. They have insufficient awareness of diverse cultures.
d. They confuse the symbols for roads versus rivers.