Date of Award:
5-1978
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Psychology
Committee Chair(s)
Glendon Casto
Committee
Glendon Casto
Committee
Christa Peterson
Committee
Richard Powers
Committee
Devoe Rickerts
Committee
Elwin Nelson
Abstract
The blockbuilding, Lego construction, pen drawing, and painting of four preschool children were analyzed in terms of the construction of form diversity and new form production. Social descriptive reinforcement, contingent on the production of any form not previously constructed within the current session and overt modeling of forms never seen produced during the study, increased form diversity scores per session and new form production (forms never seen before in the child's total prior sequence of blockbuilding sessions).
The results indicated that after training, form diversity scores generalized to topographically similar and dissimilar media of expression. New form production generalized to topographically similar and dissimilar media in the majority of the children.
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Recommended Citation
Boswell, Craig B., "Generalization Characteristics of Form Diversity and Novel Form Production Among Preschool Children" (1978). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 5835.
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